Thanks for the information. It's interesting to me, anyway! Once they got to Cleveland, some of the EWERT brothers became EVERT and my GF became EVERETT (don't know what he did about his accent, though!). Thanks for the query, but I know nothing of EWERTs beyond my GF and his siblings in Cleveland. Perhaps, way back in Europe, they connect somehow. I'll upload two images onto the message board of the Americanized version of the EWERT's town. It looks like "Petrikan" to me, but I've been told that there's no such place. Maybe it'll remind list members of something when they see it. Thanks. --- On Sun, 4/3/11, Brigitte Jahnke <brigitte@brigittejahnke.com> wrote: ...comcentration in Pommern and Hannover area...big chance that your Ewert originate from Mecklenburg or Pommern...