This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Frings Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vm.2ADE/1403 Message Board Post: She was born in Sylvia, RENO COUNTY, KS to Godfrey Frings who was a Civil War veteran from PA ( Fought for the Union side - and apparently he was employed as a miner there. That was her father. We want to find out who her MOTHER was. The surname itself a[[ears tp have come from Prussia in Germany. I am looking for any sort of record that might show who Bertha's mother was. The name was not on her birth certificate. SHE WAS BORN 1 MAR 1887 in Sylvia, RENO, KS. Any help would be appreciated!