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/Yl.2ADE/118.196.201.1 Message Board Post: Maria Louisa Hoffman does not appear in my database so I suspect that she is of a different family. My Hoffman family probably arrived in Davenport about 1848 and I have a record of only one child being born after their arrival.