This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Broker/Broecker/Ralston/Schmeltz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3h.2ADE/508.855.977.984.1.1 Message Board Post: The only Broker/Broecker's I know are the ones who settled in Floyd County, IN or in the Indiana area. That is not to say they are not related. I would like very much to help you but I need dates and where they lived. My gg-grandfather Benjamin Broker/Broecker on New Albany, IN. and brother to Conrad Broker/Broecker had a son William who married in New Albany and moved with his wife to Evansville, IN.. William b Abt 1834 Germany md Julia Schmeltz Nov 22, 1859 in New Albany, Floyd Co., IN..Owned property here but sold it and moved to Evansville, IN.. Benjamin had two daughter's also. Mary was my great-grandmother who md. Robert James Ralston Apr 12, 1864 in New Albany, IN.. If you are related to Conrad I have all of his children and most of his descendants. Some still live around here. Louise in Indiana