This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: SCHAMBACH, DORN, EMIG, HILLENBRAND Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BBB.2ACI/2006 Message Board Post: I would like to contact anyone descended from the SCHAMBACH family who emigrated from Bensheim, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany at various times in the late 1800s and/or early 1900s. Philip SCHAMBACH (b 1872-d.1938) had a bakery in Covington and I believe his wife Dora and son George continued with it after his death in 1938. I have found a record of 6 children (of Jacob SCHAMBACH and Katherine BEST) who were born in Bensheim and emigrated to Kenton Co., Campbell Co., and Cincinnati, Ohio. Names were: George, (b 1865 ).....Mary, (b 1870-d 1953) married to (unknown) MABIUS.....Philip, (b 1872-d 1938)..... Barbara, (b 1874).....William J, (b abt 1876).....and Catherine, (b abt 1884). I have been researching the SCHAMBACH family of Bensheim for the past 2 years and have much data on the "old" ancestors. My most recently dated research ends with the siblings of my greatgrandfather, Georg SCHAMBACH, b 1824 to Johann Theobald and Katharine (DORN) SCHAMBACH. Georg emigrated in the mid 1800s and settled in York Co., PA. I would like to know the grandparents of the Kentucky family (parents of Jacob SCHAMBACH) so I can place them in my family file. As far as I can determine the SCHAMBACHs in Bensheim all descend from the same couple in the 1600s. Thanks so much for reading this! I'm hoping someone out there can help! Helen, from Pennsylvania