This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schallom, Frierdich, Bangert, Hatter, Michalek/Michael Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hh.2ADE/242 Message Board Post: I'm trying to find anything out about ggggrandparents, John Schallom & Maria Weiss - believe they are from what was once the Check republic, now Bohemia - came over in the 1850's settled in Monroe county - here is the info I have - trying to find info further back then John & Maria: John Schallom m. Maria Weiss (1819-1892) they had: Josephine (Schroeder); Wenzel (Annie Hunning); George Schallom (Amie Flatman); Charles Schallom (Catherine Frierdich) and another son? My line goes to Charles Schallom and Catherine Frierdich who had Louise (Henry Heck); Wenzel (Katherine Herschenmerten?); George (Mary Goodicke); Charles; Katherine (Henry Hoelscher); Mary (Otto Frierdich) Peter (Carolyn Donneheld?) Agnes (Henry ?); my line then traces from the above on Mary Schallom who then married Otto Frierdich (her cousin?) and then comes down from there to Roy (Fern Hatter/Hoerter); Pearl (Charles Gruenginer); and Roland (Edna Pfeffer?) - Roy and Fern had Ronald (my Father) and Royce. I am trying to go back from John and Maria - the story is that they are from the old Check republic/Bohemia and are buried in the Waterloo Cemetery, IL does any of this connect any dots in anyone's genealogy? thanks - Pam