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/899.1918 Message Board Post: We have several Lippmanns under investigation. They came from Prussia ? and emigrated to the US before 1855. (we guess sometime between 1840 and 1850 ?) and lived in New York,New York state. No names known yet. They had a son Johan Heinrich Lippmann born 1855 in the US. He called himself John Henry rather than his correct names. He in turn married a Louse Weimar b.1862 ? and they had at least two children. Albert Adolph b.1885 and Elsie M. b.1888. Albert married a Florence Chatterton b.1887 she was one of 8 children who had all survived. This Family connection had, we think, emigrated from the north of England. Any further links would be most welcome.

This is a very round about way of finding the German Village for your ancestors, strange as it may seem, it worked for me and I thought I would pass along the information. My family came out of Bremen into New York City in 1844, father, mother and 5 children. For lots of years I had no luck finding their Village in Germany. I finally check in the 4 volume series called German Immigrants from Bremen to New York 1847/1871. This series does list the Villages that the immigrants came from. In one of the series a family with my same surname immigrated in 1852. They named the Village. In the Church films from that Village, my family was listed, birth records, confirmation records and even a notation as to when they were leaving for America. I am now 2 more generations back, with a lot more family names to research. As genealogist we find strange ways of finding our needed information. I hope this might help someone else. Pat