Linda wrote, <My direct line Hannes Ehrman/Ereman resided in Lancaster County, Pa. he died in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pa.]. Hannes Ehrman/Ereman mentions a Hubert Baumgartner in his will. The will was written on 18 March 1773 and proved 5 April 1773. I suspect that Hubert Baumgartner was a grandchild of Hannes Ehrman/Ereman. It is hard to tell from the wording in the will, but Hubert's mother may have been named Canton. I do not have a record of Hannes Ehrman/Ereman having a daughter named Canton who married a Baumgartner, but it is very possible. Can anyone connect the early Baumgartners with the Ehrman family? This is the wording in the 1773 will. I assume that Hubert was a minor child when the will was written. ".....then the remainder of the Money Shall be paid and divided share and share alike, Viz: to JOHN Ereman, GEORGE Ereman, MICH'L Ereman, to CANTON'S children which money or their share Hannes Duth as their Exrs. shall receive and so lay it out to their best advantage till ye are of Age HUBERT BAUMGARDNER and HANNES DUTH, or after age as they follow one after another.> Linda - Sorry to be so long in responding to your message, but I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia over the weekend. I am home now, but the doctor won't let me return to work until Thursday, so I have dug out some old Baumgartner notes to review while I rest up. When I first read your Hannes Ehrman/Ereman died in Warwick Twp, I immediately thought there must be some connection to the Bomberger line from Warwick Twp. The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County contains an article on one of their descendants, Jacob Cauffman Bomberger, who was born 12/16/1817 at Middletown, Pa. you may want to persue. The Warwick Twp. Bombergers emigrated to the US from Eshelbrun, Baden, Germany, and settled in Warwick Twp abt 1722. A good reference for their history is given in "Genealogical Information Regarding the Families of BRUBAKER, BOMBERGER, FOGELSANGER and various related families", by Elizabeth Shearer Rahn and Claude J. Rahn, Vero Beach, Florida, 1952, page 65-71. The "Records of the Reformed Church, Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1791-1831," translated by Frederick S. Weiser also lists the following baptism: Infant Parents Sponsors Magdalena Christian Baumgardner Daniel Ersman b. 6 Oct 1790 Maria Anamaria Schulerin The above entry has two dots over the a in Baumgardner. Ersman is very close to your Eshman and looking at the above entry, it's possible Maria's father may have been Daniel Ersman. Interesting Jacob Coffman Bomberger was born in Middletown and the above baptism was in Middletown. I could be way off, but might not hurt to look into it some more. The LDS family history library in Salt Lake may also have the original german film for the above church record. I found the original Quickel german record there and it turned out to be quite a bit different than the translated version. For years, I have thought the Warwick Twp Bombergers were a totally different line from the Baumgartners I have been researching from Newberry Twp, York County, but now I'm not so sure - especially since mine show up in Donegal Twp in the 1820 census. Page 65 of "Genealogical Information Regarding the Families of BRUBAKER, BOMBERGER, FOGELSANGER and various related families", says "Christian Bomberger, Jr., the second son of Christian and Maria Bomberger, the immigrants. (No record of whom he married). He had five sons. Of the first three, Christian, Jacob and Abraham, there is no record." Could those 3 sons be the ones I'm tracing??? Who knows.... will we ever know.... Isn't this a great hobby :) Hope this helps, Sherry Shallenberger