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/BBB.2ACI/1583.1.2.2 Message Board Post: Theresa, Thanks for posting. I have your grandfather listed in my database as "James or Joseph Charles Neihoff", born 11 May 1898 in McCracken County. His wife was Louise Genevieve Van Ness, born about 1897 in Graves County. There are still questions about where John was born. According to his niece, Edna [Neihoff] Englert, he was born on the ship traveling to the US. John himself reported on several census forms that he was born in Kentucky. However, I have found no record of the Neihoffs being anywhere in Kentucky in the 1860 census. Oh well, more research is needed. I'll drop you an email and maybe we can share data. Jeff Nelson Paducah, KY