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/Yg.2ADE/899.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Kari, At first blush I can't say that there would be a connection. I was unaware that there is also a Carroll Co. Indiana. However, I find it interesting that you name a time period of 1854 to 1856. My ancestors came to Carroll Co. Illinois in 1854, by way of the Port of New Orleans, the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, and via Bremen.