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/Ig.2ADI/559.561.651.1 Message Board Post: What I ahve (from Jersey Co. History) George Christopher Kirchner (1-16-1816 to 12-11-1881) emigrated from Erfurt, Prussia c. 1836. Married Elizabeth Thurston (1823-1865) on 4-23-1840. Settled west of Jerseyville in English Twp. His son Otha Obadiah Kirchner was my gg-grandfather. Valentine was an older brother, born 1857c.