This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boecklin, Vester, Smith, Kramer. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VFB.2ACI/3562 Message Board Post: My name is Elizabeth Kelly, and I live in Alameda, California. I'm attempting to research my husband's family. I've managed to trace Johann Kraemer, and Elisabetha Becker to Michelbach, Obrhss, Hessen. John and Elisabeth Kraemer had 5 children Louise born July 2, 1841, Johann born on June 27, 1843, Elizabeth E., born July 14, 1848, Caroline, born February 09, 1850, and Karl, born March 22, 1851. According to the IGI Johann Kraemer and Elisabetha Becker were married on August 23, 1849, Evangelisch, Schotten, Oberhessen, Hessen. There daughter Louise was also christened at the same place on July 9, 1841. Around the early to mid 1850's the family travelled to the USA, and settled in Connecticut where I believe Johann died before 1870. I have found all three of the female children, and their spouses living in Springfield, and Holyoke, Massachusetts in the 1880's to 1920's. Elisabeth married Edward Boecklin who was the Captain of Police in Springfield in 1890, and 1900. they had at leas 3 children Jennie, Emma, and Thomas. Caroline I believ married George F. Vester (a saloon keeper) and lived in Springfield, MA. They had at least 3 children George F. Vester, Carrie, and Nettie. Louise Kramer married John Smith (also from hessen Germany. they had a son Charles, and John worked in the woollen mill in 1880. As yet I do not know the location of the male children. There was another male child (Theodore) born in CT, and a female child (Emma) born in 1860. Theodore married Marie Menard or Mary Burnor/Buins and had a son George. If anyone has any information on the ancestry of Johann or Elizabeth, I would be most grateful if you would share that info with me. Warm regards from Elizabeth