Marci, I have family in Marissa , and on our last trip there for my nephew's wedding my husband and I copied all the Stamms in St. Clair county,Steelville and the whole area between trips to as many cemetaries as we could find in the nashville area. We found one lone Matthews, a Civil War veteran at the big cemetary in town.(Absolom-I think ?) When we got home,I wrote all these Stamm's.I got one very nice reply from a gentleman who directed my query to his families official genealogy nut. This kind lady sent me all kinds of copies of information she had gathered over the years and marked her group and that group of Catholic Stamm's of which she felt had to be my group.I learned so much from her and will always be grateful to her and her cousin .I had assumed Stamm's ,being German, would be Lutheran and was surprised to find the likeliest canditates were Catholic.The religion wasn't the important part. Finding this gem of information was. My long winded point is, if it takes fifty letters and you get only one reply ,it may be the only reply you need. It is well worth the price and the time spent.The worst that will happen is your letters may get thrown out. The best is that you may make a valuable new friend or find a relative. That's my tenty nine cents worth from America's Siberia-Indiana. Emily Matthews