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/1662 Message Board Post: Gerhard Anton Gruending (father:Grunding mother:Tepe) m Catharina Elisabeth Macke(father:Macke/Macker mother:Orden) 1872 Holdorf, Germany. He dies 1876 leaving her with 2 children and 1 on the way. In 1892 they leave for America. Ellis Island records: March 10, 1892 on ship's manifest for ELBE, sailing from Bremen & Southampton to New York; MACKE, Wilh'e (25), GRUNDING, Cath'a (40), GRUNDING, Josefa (18), GRUNDING, Joh'a (17), GRUNDING, Heinr (15). There are not a lot of descendents of this family, so any that do find each other are definitely related! Heinr (Johann Heinrich) Grunding/Gruending was my grandfather and he married Mary Elisabeth Josephine Peters in 1902 Spring Hill Twp, Stearns County, Minnesota. They eventually homesteaded in Saskatchewan, Canada and are buried here. Anyone else researching this family and their descendents? Diane in Saskatchewan, Canada