Hi Terie: Sorry I didn't get to your message sooner, thanks for responding. My mother (Minnie SCHMIDT) was born on Jaluit in 1916 and came to San Francisco in 1922. I knew her grandmother (Mary FOLIET) was a full-blooded islander (from the Carolines) and her grandfather, Capt. REIHER (as well as her father, Capt. SCHMIDT) was a German ship's captain. I'd been searching for the REIHER family for years and finally found them in 2001. In 2003, my daughter and I spent five weeks in the South Pacific (Fiji, New Zealand, Majuro, and Hawaii) visiting hundreds of relatives (several on each island). This past July, 144 of us came from all over the world (including Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Kiribati and Kwajalein) to meet in Fiji for a fantastic reunion. I did a genealogy presentation and people really enjoyed seeing their long-lost relatives -- it was great! Although our plane landed on Kwajalein in 2003, we never got off the plane. In fact, the only people getting off were students going to Ebeye for the Xmas holiday! Unfortunately we didn't get out to Jaluit or Ebon, two of the islands I would love to have seen; my mother told me about them. The plane only goes once a week -- if you are lucky! In any event, I'm so glad to have found my German sea captains -- now I will search for Capt. Reiher's family in Flensburg, Germany. Enough of my tale. If you have any pictures or tales of the islands, I would love to see or hear about them. Thanks again for your e-mail. Bev Colgin (moll1942@aol.com) mainly researching Brünjes, Hoffmeister, Moll, Mook, Reiher, Renken and Utz families.