This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/RQG.2ACEB/126 Message Board Post: My relatives lived on the West Coast of Schlesvig-Holstein. They left around 1888...some earlier than that. If you can get some village names, that would help. In those days people were unlikely to move even 20 miles away, and anyone with the same last name is likely a relative. I have a map of the area from that time.