This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Opperman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/4012 Message Board Post: I've just restarted chasing my father's (Nelson Maurice Opperman) family tree. I've got his birth certificate that lists his dad as Maurice Walter Opperman, married to Mabel Anna Boehringer. Family lore says that Maurice died in a accident on a ship around 1930. I'm looking for any sibs or perhaps parents (I've got notes that said he had brothers of Arthur, Jake, Frank and sisters of Pauline and Clara. Frank and Clara were twins and died near to birth). I'd like to find a link to when/where family immigrated to link back to Germany (again family lore) has this in/around Hessen. Locations I've found mentioned are Ridgefield township, Norwalk, Clarksfield, Wakeman and Findlay. I've also found a note that Arthur married Philipena Bach Boehringer if that helps tie to another family tree. Making him a step-dad to Mabel Anna Boehringer.