This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Seitz, Sites Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SSB.2ACE/2207 Message Board Post: An important discovery has been made for the Sites and Seitz families. On the Seitz board was posted the whereabouts of documents explaining where our Seitz and Sites ancestors originated, the ship they came over on, etc., found on LDS Film, Reel 1, 1197020: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=surnames.seitz&m=398 The documents on this microfilm tie together the various Seitz/Sites lines, and we can now pretty much be rest-assured that George Seitz the pioneer of Grant County, WV, and Johann (John) Seitz of Catawba County, NC, were brothers. I recently spoke with a cousin who had interviewed our "Grandpa Sites" (Martin Luther Sites) extensively. He knew about the family going all the way back to the immigrants. He explained that there were five brothers who came over from Germany. Our ancestor was George - who settled Hardy County, Virginia (in the area to become Grant County, WV) and another brother was John. The descendents of George knew the whereabouts of three of the other brothers (iuntil the early 20th century), but had lost track of John because he decided to travel further south before settling. They knew that this John kept the original speilling, Seitz, while the others anglicised it to Sites. In the 1950s (long after M.L. Sites had moved from Grant Co., WV, to Catawba Co., NC), a relative, Roy Reinhardt, was helping to clean up Robinson Cemetery and came back to tell the relatives that they found "Lost John". They found his gravestone, that is. This John, Johann Heinrich Seitz, was the ancestor to the Seitz line in Catawba County. Has this gravestone for Johann Seitz been preserved to the present time, and has anyone seen it recently? it is said that he died before 1766. Has Lost John been lost again?