This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buchmann Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/gVG.2ACEB/29 Message Board Post: Looking for Martin Luther Buchmann, b. abt 1836, Bavaria (Pfaltz). He married Louisa Schweickart 14 Apr 1859 in Brown Co. OH. Martin's father died when he was young. His mother was poor, so the paternal grandparents raised him. He cut down a tree in the king's forest and was sentenced to army duty. Instead, his grandparents had him tagged and sent to USA, where he reacquainted with his cousin, Louisa, and they married. We have info on their children, but are unable to find his birth record, ancestry or immigration. Sound familiar to anyone?