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/ZVC.2ACE/628.3151.1.1 Message Board Post: I tremendously appreciate your responding many, many, many thanks. My Bredenbergs came to the USA from Sandstedt, Germany which is in the old Germany State of Hanover and is on the Weser River. Earlier members of this family were found in Kasselbruch Kirchspiel Bramstedt, GER. Their records are found in Lutheran Church Records in the above said places. I am gateful for your response and how very much I wish you could help me. Gratefully, Helen