This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dirkes, Poos Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/1043.1.2 Message Board Post: Greetings Linda, I dont know if this has any bearing on your Elisabeth Boos but I feel any clue, no matter how small, may make a difference some day. My Dirkes family was from Luxembourg. Sister Elisabeth born 1834 married Heinrich Poos. They immigrated to the US in the early 1860s and I cannot find them. Elisabeth's brother Matthew Dirkes immigrated to Wi and the Poos family supposedly went there also, but I cannot find them. My Dirkes family was born in Luxembourg but worked on the other side of the Our River in Gentingen, which was in Lux at the time most of the family was born. Today it is in Germany. There is a footbridge across the river in Gentingen and it looks very old. There are Poos buried in the Gentingen cemetery. Perhaps you could look for your Elisabeth Boos in this area someday?? Not much of a stretch Boos vs. Poos. LOL My GGGgrandfather Peter Dirkes always maintained he was born in Lux altho the records of his family are at the archives in Trier. The rest of the Dirkes' that came over all went to Stearns County, then one brother went to ND, and one to Black Hawk Co., IA. Karen in Iowa