In a message dated 11/12/2003 7:15:20 PM Pacific Standard Time, BLGT@aol.com writes: > Where would I look for information on his parent? I find nothing on Bridges being a German name. Has anyone else run across any Bridges that came from Germany? Was there a German settlement in Tennessee at that time frame---1810-1820? < Barbara, I can't answer about the German settlement, however, a couple of our Bridges participants in our DNA project have numbers which place them in the Haplogroup that indicates that they were German. In both cases, the lines were in America too early for the census to report that they were from Germany, however. Do you have a living male in your Bridges line who could be tested in our DNA project? Julia French Wood