This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jeske and Butz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1496 Message Board Post: My cousin came to the US from Germany in the early 1950s. She and her boyfriend settled in NYcity where they married ans ran or owned and ran a resturant in the "German area". Can any one tell me where was considered the "German area" in the 1950s? I an trying to figure out in what county they might have lived.