Dear Sharon and Harry, Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner. Somehow I lost your message and had to search the archives to find it again. I'm not familiar with the name "Gertrude Rex Strimple," but as you likely know by now, all us Strimples are probably connected if you study long enough. So, you can almost certainly go back to William Strimple (who changed his name from Johann Wilhelm Strempel or Stremple when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1752), the first Strimple to arrive in America. The question is, where did our lines part company after that? I've only recently become aware of a connection to the Kitchins, through the Hunterdon County list. My own New Jersey line traces back very shortly after the arrival in Philadelphia. This first William's son, John, was a corporal in the 4th New Jersey Regiment during the Revolutionary War. (John's brothers, Aaron and Christian, also turn up in New Jersey marriage records and such.) John's son, Samuel, who married Elizabeth Biddle in Upper Penns Neck, New Jersey, moved with her to Ohio, then Indiana, then Illinois. Their daughter, Rebecca Strimple, gave birth to Henry (both deserted by father named Haskins), who was the father of my own grandfather, Everett. Everett Henry Strimple married Golda Stitt in Kansas. I can provide more detail, but I wonder if this is enough information for you to be able to tell where your branch and mine separated. In my searches, I remember running across a Gertrude Strimple, but I don't remember where she died. I'd be interested to know more about your Strimples and their history. Dorothy