Hi listers, I recently discovered that my Danish grandfather (b. 1864), JACOB CHRISTIAN PETERSEN SØRENSEN's mother was INGEBORG CHRISTIANE TAGHOLMINE SCHMIDT (b. 1834), whose parents were CATHRINE STEENBECK RATTENBERG (b. about 1806) and CHRISTIAN PETERSEN SCHMIDT. CATHRINE's parents were MATHIA HEDEVIG RATTENBERG (b. 1771) and JOHANNES RATTENBERG. MATHIA's parents were CATHRINE STEENBECK AND IVER BJØRN. The STEENBECK-RATTENBERG's seem to come from Haderslev/Hadersleben county (Vedsted, Jelling, Christiansfeldt) in Denmark which would have been part of Schleswig-Holstein (sp?) during some of this time. There were priests, seminarians, schoolteachers and men of law among the parents or baptism sponsors of the children. I typed into my search engine, "Steenbeck," "Rattenberg," and "Tagholm" individually and came up with some interesting people and places, but little genealogy info. Does anyone have any of these folks in their family tree? Dotty in Sunny Florida.