I tried to send this to her email address listed on rootsweb.com. It got sent back to me. I'm hoping that she's on one of these two lists with a new email address and will see this. Sorry for sending this to the lists. LeeAnn ----- Original Message ----- From: miriam To: pjam@redshift.com Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2005 10:58 AM Subject: Elizabeth Borges Hartke Hello. My name is LeeAnn McNabb and I'm writing to you from Cincinati, Ohio. I have been doing Borges research in the Covington area for about 3 years now. I'm actually working on the "Borges Family of Covington" for my family which I hope to have finished by the end of this winter. I just found an entry in "Kentucky: A History of the State" for Joseph Hartke whose mother was a Borges and who was born in Hanover. This really excited me, because I've seen the Hartke name somewhere before, I believe as Baptism sponsors. I hadn't even bothered to write these sponsors down, as at that time I hadn't recognized the name. I began wondering if Elizabeth Borges Hartke was a sister to my Johann Andreas Borges, born 1806 in Hanover somewhere. I've never been able to track down exactly where he was from. I then did a search on rootsweb with the Hartke name to see what I could get to pull up for the Covington area. I found your gedcom. I was excited to see you listed her paren! ts and the town where she was born. How did you get this information? At this time I do not know for sure they are siblings, but I believe there is a 50/50 chance. I do know that Johann Borges came before 1845 as he had a child baptized at Mother of God Church during that year. In the history it states Joseph and his parents came in 1847 - so they would've come after Johann. Oh no, I just looked at the church records available at the LDS and they start in 1808! There's no way for me to verify. I may have to research on how to contact the church directly for other years than what the LDS offers. Oh well, I do thank you for your time and consideration and any information on how you obtained the Borges information. Thanks again. LeeAnn McNabb