This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Stoffel, Adams, Rosing, Schumacher, Schmitt, Klein, Cossman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Zg.2ADI/245.2 Message Board Post: Ann: The Stoffels that I am aware of (John and Elisabeth) lived in western Lake County in the 1800's although some of their children may have located in McHenry County later. John was a nephew to my GGGGrandfather Nicholas Adams of Grant Twp also in Lake County. John Stoffel's sister Barbara married Jacob Schumacher, and they lived in McHenry. John, Barbara, and my GGGGrandfather came to the US from the town of Bad Bertrich near Cochem in the Eifel region of Germany. All three show up in both the St. John the Baptist records and in the 1880 US Census. based on the Grandfather's names you provided, I am pretty sure we are related