This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/528.540.1.1 Message Board Post: kristin sipperley: I think you may be on to something. I am of the Melchior lineage also. Have you been to the cemetery in Essex? All of the early Hoffnagles are buried there. John