Hello Jill Johnson from Minnesota, I'm researching my wife's family into & before Rockland County, mostly in the Nyack areas but some in the southern part of that area. Families are SCHMIDT (Neckerbishopheim near Stuttgart -> Brooklyn -> Rockland), BITTIG (Bavaria(?)) and BRAUNSDORF (?? -> Brooklyn -> Rockland. Stange, but the only one we've been able to trace back to the Vaterland is the one with the most common name. Best of success with your research, Mark Moeser MMoeser237@aol.com