My husband's KÖHLER immigrant was born in Melzow, Prussia. Christian F. KÖHLER (later spelled KOEHLER and other ways) arrived in the USA abt 1850 as a single man but m/ Christiane Sophia Dorothea NEUMANN (or maybe NIEMANN) in 1868 in Wolcottsville, Niagara County, NY. And, it is his marriage record that shows him born in Melzow in the Uckermark. He wrote (in his naturalization papers) that he was born in Metz, but then that was in English, whereas his marriage record is written in German. Christian's gravestone says that he was born in 1837. Other papers about his life give reason to say that he was most likely born 1830- 1837. He fought, for the union, in the War Between the States. We have much information about Christian's descendants, but know nothing of his siblings. His parents are listed in his marriage record as Christian KÖHLER (widower) and Maria BRAND. We know nothing further of his parents, and an online search of the German telephone directory shows no KÖHLERs living in Melzow today. Christian and "Sopha" settled in Macon County, Missouri where they farmed. He died there in 1906; and she, in 1918. BTW, her parents (or possibly her father and step-mother) are buried in Bloomington, MO. Always interested in family contact, please email and/or snail-mail. Leslie Bridges Kohler Aug67@att.net P.O. Box 8137, Glendale, AZ 85312-8137 -or- P.O. Box 276, Carrollton, MO 64633-0276 {Either address will work.}