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/3h.2ADE/975.1036 Message Board Post: I just saw your posted message, and I also have a gg-grandfather from Germany and his name is John Smith and he married Elizabeth Retzier. Their children were samuel, John, Thomas, Daniel, Phillip, George,Catherine, Sarah, Elizabeth, Elenor, and Nancy. As the story goes John was born in Germanu near the Rhine River and settled here in Allehheny C. Pa. If any of this sounds familiar please contact me at [email protected]