This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Olding, Oldig, Oldiges, Goedeker Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/3388.1.1 Message Board Post: Sorry, but I have found almost nothing on my Olding. I know that he arrived in May 1852 and went to Louisville. The passenger list has the place name Mäbden, which may be Meppen. I now believe that the name may really be Oldig or Oldiges. I see the online Findbuch shows only one emigration record that mentions Gödeker and that was Osnabrück, but you did say your ancestor was from Oldenburg, not Hannover.