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/Vh.2ADE/853.1 Message Board Post: I am at a remote location right now and I don't have my family tree book with me, but I have been trying to find Schmidt family members. All that comes to mind now is Anna Marie Schmidt. But I also have a Sophia Ann Yack?? I have been told by german researchers that the last name may be wrong. Eck and Yack are not that far apart. It is my understanding that when they came to this country, since they could not understand what they were saying, that often times the name was written down as it was heard. I will look in my book and see what I have and get back to you.