Welcome THIS is fun isn't it! I've been learning along with the rest and find the information coming in the strangest places! I did a general search on the internet for my unusual name ... and found two very famous people who had this strange name both German PhD professors with websites related to their subjects. -- O'man do you write to these guys and ask if they knew who their great-great grandparents were? Would you believe the first answered in only an hour (I about passed out!) ... he's a very busy man but he'd look and see if his family had any idea. The second took several weeks to answer ..... HE was researching my question and came up with wonderful clues as YES they both feel we are probably related to this man who left Stettin Prussia in 1873! WOW, it's so much fun to find out about who my great Granny was -- but even more fun finding out and meeting people today! Another 'tip' was that go on surname sites for the name you're looking for. If you want I'll send you a link. ON this look for people with your last name who have relatives in the same area -- say in Jones's in WHATEVER county, Pennsylvania. I wrote to as many as six or seven people once looking for people with a certain name in a certain area and got six or seven answers! From that I got more information than you'd believe complete with copies of wills from the 1800's! -- Marge (in Arizona)