This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: madehlinne Surnames: Dornbusch, Landgraf/VonLandgraf Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.missouri.counties.stlouis/10063.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi, Tracey! It's an entire possibility that your Frederick/originally Friedrich D. just MIGHT have been born in New Orleans. My mother's family, named LANDGRAF/VON LANDGRAF, arrived in New Orleans sometime between 1845-1850, although I have yet to quite pin the date down. Anyway, there were two brothers [Jacob Franz {Frank} and Anton Franz {Frank}] and possibly a sister who came to the U.S. Jacob F., later known as Frank and my great-great-grandfather, came north to settle in St. Louis, although he and his wife, Maria Catherine Steuernagel, were married in New Orleans. I have a copy of their marriage certificate. The other brother, Anton and his wife Elizabeth Brandau and family, remained in New Orleans, through the Civil War [I haver a very old tintype of him in his Confederate uniform with his wife at his side], and then came north to St. Louis. But Anton and Elizabeth returned to New Orleans for a couple of years because, although they had several children, the oldest and the youngest were BOTH born in New Orleans. I suspect they had some kind of business dealings down South. I too saw that German sailor listing and thought that THAT just might be your ancestor. The dates being off by a couple of years like that wouldn't discourage me from tracing that particular trail of info. Let me dig a little further and see if I can find anything in New Orleans. Watch this space....film at 11 ;) Madehlinne Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.