This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Beckmann, Offermann Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZVC.2ACE/3990 Message Board Post: Looking for information about my greatgradmother Metta Beckmann who married Hermann Offermann about 1870. He came from Bornberg near Hechthausen. I think she may have come from the area north of Bad Bederkesa between Otterndorf and Steinau. All I know is that she drowned near Steinau on her way to a wedding in 1898. They had spent their married life in Bederkesa. I have been through the Hechthausen and Bederkesa churchbooks microfilmed by the Family History center but have not found Metta's birth or their marriage in the records.