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/4110.1 Message Board Post: I have two branches of my ancestry that immigrated from Landesbergen & Estorf about 1835. the one is Buchholz who is my gre,great grandmother and the other is Ludwig Schmidt my great, great grand father. They both settled in DuPage County, IL and were married in the U.S. There is also a slight tie to Fischer from the same towns. But I do not have a Dorothea Louis Schmidt in my records. Of course there are 1001 Schmidt in Germany. No Biere in my records. We have been to both Landesbergen & Estorf.