This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HARMS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IGB.2ACI/618.2.1 Message Board Post: I have tried both; and every once in awhile I try each of them again. Hopefully someday I will find an ancestor of my Peter Johann F. Harms who has kept a family letter from Germany, and of course it will be in the "old German" dialect. Audrey