This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Horstmann Von Behren Fedewald Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BBB.2ACI/664.848.1 Message Board Post: Looking for assistance or references to early HORSTMANN genealogy to Louisville, Kentucky area and river boats around 1840-1850. Trying to tie to Von Behrens Fedewald or other Prussian origins from Nordhemmern/Hille Horstmann's that eventually went west to Osage/Gasconade/Franklin county, Missouri prior to 1850. saw your old posts THX Also have some old unidentified photos that relate!