this link here will probably give you a good history of the area of Rockdale.  It also mentions the name Dornhoefer.  I found an ship transcription for 1848 into the port of galveston that carried a dornhoefer family.   YOu can also run the name on people search and find the spelling dornhoefer but not dornhoffer, though a few spellings for the latter show up in a general web search.   http://www.forttumbleweed.net/rockdale.html hope this helps a bit. Nancy Many years ago I was in the Navy with a fellow from Rockdale. He had a very heavy German accent.  Does anyone know of any information concerning that location? Fritz Dornhoffer was his name.     Bill Fehlinger-New  Jersey For all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: http://www.germanyroots.com Please visit and participate in our new forum http://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 11, 2010 7:11:47 AM Subject: [G-P-L] Rockdale Texas