I hope this panel can assist me with an answer to this letter. A correspondent in Newport News, VA wrote to me in Idaho concerning the surnames: Schuette, Horntrup, Winte. She says in part, "My grandfather was Fred or Friedrich Wilhelm Horntrup (Schuette). I found that he had a sister Florentine Horntrup married to Henry Winte, and they had a daughter Maria Louisa, Feb 8, baptized February 19, 1882 in New Minden. I believe he also had a brother or cousin, William Schuette, who married Carolina Winte, on Aug. 11, 1887." She states that the Horntrups changed their last name to Schuette. I have several lines that marry into either Winte or Schuette, and a list of those surnames, but not a great deal of family continuity. I suspect they are related to each other more closely than my records show. These are colateral lines for me, but a primary concern for her, so I would like to help. She doesn't appear to be on computer. Thanks, Jerry Cowley