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/gh.2ADI/5421.2 Message Board Post: Hi Ginger, Paul's grandparents were Balthasar & Christina Baumeister-Eckert, they are my 3rd great-grandparents. If you can get hold of Gerald Scher's 1970 "Genealogy of Eckert-Karst-Scher & Related Families" it will fill you in with most of the Eckerts. Paul's great-grandmother was Mary Karst-Keefer.