This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/4012.1 Message Board Post: Sharon, you've posted your query on this particular message board, which is the message board for people looking for information about people who were specifically from what is today the German state of Lower Saxony (in German: Niedersachsen) in northern Germany. But you say that the Oppermann family is said to have come from the German state of Hesse (in German: Hessen) in central Germany. I would thus suggest that you post your query again, but this time on the Germany Hessen message board. If the Oppermann family really was from Hesse, anybody who might possibly know something would of course be much more likely to see your query on that board than here on this one. Robert