Hi Sean... I am sending your post to the list and i suspect that there were be folks who will come to your rescue... PLEASE do subscribe to the list so that you can benefit from what they might post.... to do so, send a new email to [email protected] with the single word subscribe in both the subject and in the text area.... you will receive a welcome letter when you are successful.. then to write to the list send the post to [email protected] (notice no -request). all of the resulting information will be in the archives of the list which you can search. which is something i suggest that you do for all the surnames that are listed in your post. to do so, go to rootsweb.com home page... scroll to INTERACTIVE SEARCH and then enter in the official list name il-cook-schaumburg then enter in one by one the surnames of interest and click submit.. to open the results, click on FULL.... ----- Original Message ----- From: Sean Sunderlage To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:41 PM Subject: Doebke/Sunderlage Hi! I am writing to you in hope that you may be able to point me in the right direction concerning some genealogical work I am conducting! My name is Sean Sunderlage, and I am a GGGgrandson of Johan Sunderlage and Catharina Greve. I have been searching for information about the family of my GGgrandmother, Sophia/Sofie Doepke/Dopke/Dobke, and have had rather poor luck so far. My line from Johan & Catharina is: August Sunderlage & Sofie Doepke August Sunderlage & Lima Seibel William Sunderlage & Gloria Otto Terry Sunderlage & Kay Mansfield Sean (me) & Ann Wappelhorst I do know that Sofie's mother's name was also Sofie, but do not know her maiden name (she was from Hesse, Germany). Sofie had three children by her first husband, and I do not know this person's name nor what became of him. The children's names are: Sofie, Christian and Fredrick. Sofie was remarried in 1871 to a Henry/Heinrich Dehne (b. in Hesse), and together they had one child, Maria. No one else in my family seems to know about the Doepke family, and I have seen your name numerous times regarding the Schaumburg area, and thought you might be able to assist me! Thanks for your time, I greatly appreciate it!! Best regards, Sean Sunderlage