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/lNB.2ACI/3815.1.2.2.1 Message Board Post: My husband's Miller line came directly from Bavaria to America in 1865. They settled in Rock Island IL and then to Belleville, IL. That is where they have all remained. He has no Miller relation outside the state of Illinois and our sons are the last of the line. I have traced his family back to early 1800s to the small villages in Neiderkirchen and Wolmirstadt. Sorry I couldn't help. I was born near Potosi MO.