I have looked everywhere to find information re: my great-grandfather, who was among the Lutheran Volga Germans who came to Russell Co. I contacted Janet Flickinger & she also has checked all of her resources but we have not been able to find out the names of his parents or any siblings he might have had. I have learned that according to a story passed on to my cousin by her mother indicates that our great-grandfather, George John Niedens, came to the U.S. at the age of 15 in 1885, along with another young boy named Lohmann. According to the story, the two boys were threatened by an older man who ordered them to give him all of their money or he would kill them. On the passenger lists, I found John H. Lohmann, age 15, and John Lohmann, also age 15, who came to the U.S. in 1885 on the Frisia. My cousin and I located the homestead of Johannes Lohmann in Russell Co., but he would most likely have been the father of the Lohmann who traveled with our great-grandfather. Now I may be grasping at straws here, but is it possible that during the immigrations from Russia to the U.S. that “family tickets” were provided so that family members could travel on one ticket instead of individual tickets? My thought is that maybe one of the Lohmanns traveling on the Frisia was the son of Johannes Lohmann, who had already come to the U.S. to homestead some land, and the other was in fact my great-grandfather, traveling under a false name because his money & ticket had been stolen. Your opinions/comments, please? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.14/1001 - Release Date: 9/11/2007 1:37 PM