This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Qk.2ADI/2119.2.2 Message Board Post: Hello, I was browsing the message boards and came across your message re: your Martensen research. I was a Martensen till marriage and have been attempting to search my family for years. I had several roadblocks along the way, not the least of which was my parents divorce, and some very "private" older relatives, then the jump across the ocean my gr. grandfather took in 1905-6. My Martensens came from the farming area just outside Flensburg, Schlesvig- Holstein Denmark. My great grandfather was in the military. He came to America and first stayed with farming families in western Iowa before bringing his family over and moving to Nebraska. We were given to understand that several family came with him but one branch lost track of another and in just a couple generations we were missing family members. Eventually our "branch" moved to the Washington coast via Texas and parts in between. I was born in 1961 in Enumclaw, King, Washington. My current address is POBOX 152 ! Anatone, WA. 99401 I would very much like to correspond with anyone remotely related, even just through the correct spelling of the name (haha). My correlated families include...Kloth, Petersen...Darn, I don't have my files with me... anyway, I would love to hear from you. Sincerely, Debra Martensen Wilson.