This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bennewitz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/4057.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I believe the family was Lutheran, since my gr. grandfather is buried in the Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery on Long Island. I have copies of both marriage certificates. One of them just says he was born in Germany and the first one, from 1878, says Ollendorf, Hanover Germany. I am not confident in the information. Each certificate gives his father a different name. The 1878 certif. says it is Hermann and the 1884 certif. says Peter. I have the names of both clergymen, but not a church, so it may have been a civil ceremony. Everywhere I turn, I seem to hit a brick wall. Incidentally, on his death certificate. it says his father's name was Christian (that now makes three different first names).