This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oh0.2ACEB/1874.1 Message Board Post: My Meyer ancestors came from Holdorf & Dinklage, Oldenburg, Germany in 1853 & 1854. I don't know if or when any of their siblings came to America. The spelling was Meier for one branch and another branch was Meyer. My great, great grandfather was Johann Heinrick Meier (John Henry Meyer) born 11/20/1806. His son, Henry John Meyer was born 7/31/1829. When Henry John Meyer came to America he stopped in Kentucky and then went to St. Louis, MO, then to New Vienna, Iowa and finally to Stearns County, Minnesota. Could he have stopped to see relatives in Kentucky? Maybe yours are connected. My great, great grandmother was also a Meyer--Elisabeth Anna Catharina Meyer born 9/26/1799. She had a brother, Johan Henricus Meyer born 4/1796.