This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/732.753.1.3 Message Board Post: To Bev Ewing, I hope you get this message. I am a direct descendant of Maria Jax and her daughter Maria Hasling Fishbach, and her daughter Mary Hasling who married Jacob Simonis. I've been researching these lines, and my THIELEN line for years, and have collected extensive information, photos, ect...... Have been stuck on my Simonis line for a long while. My SIMONIS, THIELEN, HASLING ancestors all immigrated from the Luxembourg, Rhineland region of Germany to Stearns county, MN between 1870 and 1885. I think we must be related and descended from the same line? I was hoping we could exchange information. Hope to hear from you. Kelly Thielen greatgreat grand daughter of Jacob Simonis, b.1854, d.1925, MN, buried at St.Joseph's Catholic cemetery, Dickinson, ND, husband to Maria Hasling, and father of 12 children, many who went to Oregon.