This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kruger, Krueger Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TZo.2ACIB/210 Message Board Post: Stoffer and Rine were Brothers who came to the USA. Rine in 1888 and Stoffer in 1894. Rine came with the Hoekstra family, which is how he met his wife, Martha Hoekstra. Rine and Martha had 12 kids: Ralph (my grandfather-born in Winschoten), Anna (born in Winschoten), Henrietta, Marie, Stanley, Martin, Henry, Fredrick, Edward, Paul, John and Rine Jr. (Uncle Joe.) Rine Jr., tells me his father, who was Rine/Rhine b: 1 Aug 1869 at Winschoten (Groningen) Holland had cousins living in Winschoten also. Rine, Ralph, Hendricka all have many different variations in spelling so it will be hard to trace. Hendricka married Rine/Rhine in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. There were 2 generations of KRUGER's in Woldendorp near Groningen. There was a Hendrik who married a Kruger in 1847 Detondorf, Germany who then went to the Netherland's. He is looking for more information for me and we will be in contact again shortly. Any and all help is deeply appreciated! Thanks!