This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilter/Welter Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wg.2ADE/1646 Message Board Post: I am looking for information on the family of Joseph Wilter (Welter). The family emigrated from Alsace Lorraine about 1885. Mr Wilter was apparently a miner around Coal City, but only briefly. He died, and his wife Anna remarried in 1888 to Leonard Dingels. There were three daughters, Elizabeth, Angela and Anna. Anna was born in 1885, but I do not know if the birth was in Germany, enroute, or in America. Elizabeth was my grandmother.