My New Orleans surnames: Meyers (German origins) - to US early/mid 1800s????? Minning (German origins) - to US 1850s Cearns ( Kearns Kerns ? ? ? ) (Irish origins) - to US ? Child / Childe - in NOLA before 1840 Lynch - to US about 1840s; from County Westmeath, Ireland Swanson - Sweden to Illinois 1868 then NOLA about 1890s Ranbarger - original connection to Europe unknown/presume German speaking; in Kentucky late 1700s; to Illinois about 1830; to NOLA about 1890s Barrett Baumiller Delatte Fisher / Fischer Ford Hossey / Housey / Hussey Koenig Kron McNeely Ray Shaughnessy / O'Shaughnessy Many connections to the Salem Evangelical Church from the early decades Thank you! ~Mary in Northern California