Sigfried WOLFF b. 1854 in Berlin came to America in the 1870's and enlisted in the army and in the county of Trinity CA, (Weaverville to be exact) he renounced his allegiance to the emporer William the first of Germany and became naturalized. The witnesses to his signature on April 14,1879 were a Morris GOETZ KARSKY and Isaac ABRAHM. He married Bertha JACOBS (Jacobowitz) from Visseck, Germany which was near Berlin in San Francisco and they had my grandfather, Jesse Wolff up in WA state in 1888. Sigfried had 2 brothers: Gustave and Hermann Wolff and possibly sisters as well in Germany. Rumor has it there was a big argument between Sigfried and his family so he left home and when a brother came to America to help mend things Sigfried was stubborn and refused to mend the break. I am as stubborn as Sigfried and I will look and look for my ancestors until I find them. I have recently learned Pauline Goetz Wolff 1818-1903 was the mother of Sigfried Wolff. I have also learned that Gustav Wolff's daughter Regina Wolff married Albert TUCHLER1899 in Berllin.