Hi! Do you realize that Metz in now in France? You should be able to write to the City Archive in Metz and they can look up Christian's birth in the church records... then you could learn more about his parents! don ludwig ----------------- Ooooh, but I do love the posts from all of you wonderful people! And, I am still working on recruting more. In the mean time, I guess that it is probably about time for me to post something about my husband's KOEHLERs. CHRISTIAN F. KOEHLER b 22 Sept 1837 Metz, Deutchland Came to NY from Hamburg in 1852 His father was 'possibly' Henry (or Heinrich). He 'possibly' had a brother named Eli. m/ 11 Nov 1868 at Wolcottsville, Niagara Co, NY Wife was SOPHIA NEUMANN (5 Feb 1842 Germany-16 Mar 1918 Macon Co, MO) dau of Elizabeth & Henry Neumann Moved to MO c. 1868-1870 Filed for naturalization in Niagara Co, NY on 28 Nov 1859 saying he was from Saxony Coburg, Deutchland Children of SOPHIA (NEUMANN) & CHRISTIAN KOEHLER: 1) Charlie M. (or W.) KOEHLER (6/4/1869-1/4/1878) 2) George Henry KOEHLER (5/10/1871-3/24/1903) m/ Essie GLENN on 5/10/1893 (She later m/2,m/3,m/4) 3) Helen KOEHLER (6/18/1875-1/7/1956) m/Frederick F. DOHRING on 6/2/1897 4) Sarah KOEHLER (11/10/1878-6/16/1879) 5) Ella KOEHLER (5/4/1882-5/24/1947) m/1 Arthur (or W.A.) Jenkins m/2 Mr. WILHITE Leslie (Bridges) Kohler ShandyBeast@starlink.com BRIDGES--FOX--KOEHLER--GLENN--MANTLO ==== KOEHLER Mailing List ====