I don't know but when Christian Griiner died in 1938-1939 in his funeral book is a JAMES AHERN and what looks like NANFORE AHERN. I have a lot of information and am still trying to piece it together. I have Carl Coleman b 11-2-1898 married Erna Griiner 3-17-1926 (divorced later) in 1929 ,while Carl was the organist at the Great Lakes Theater, Buffalo NY,a letter was sent to Carl from: C.M. Coleman Pickwick apt 6 833 S. Grand Ave. Los Angeles, Ca I think this was Carl's dad and he had a brother Theo. with wife Lois and a baby that were visiting him in CA In Christians funeral book there are a lot of other names that I don't know who they are thanks sarah NOELLEHART@aol.com wrote: > > Parts of Denmark became part of Germany following a war between the two. That > probably explains the discrepancy between the birth and death cert. I have > relatives who were Colemans but I believe them to have been Irish. Mary > Coleman married Dennis Ahern and they had 4 children; one of whom was named > George Coleman Colford. Any connection? Nina