In a message dated 10/5/2003 6:00:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Osnabrück My Meyer family came to Schaumburg Illinois in 1838 from Osnabrück/Devern...I have seen Germans write Meier in the old church books interchangeably for Meyer. Johann Diedrich Meyer we have his family back to the 1500's. A BOHNE bought the farm of my Kolling family approx 1868-69 in Schaumburg just down the road from the MEYER farm. Laurie