I am looking for records of Franz Hermann SOMMER or SOMMERS b. 6 Nov 1852 in Vogtland of Saxony, Germany. He also went by Hermann Franz SOMMER and Henry SOMMERS. He came to the US in 1882 married to Marie Auguste HIMMER b. Jul 1854. He immigrated with his brother Friedrich Albin SOMMER b. 19 Mar 1855 at Neuensalz, Saxony, Germany who at that time was married to Anna Christiana HEINZ - this couple, had a child, Alfred Woldemar SOMMER on 4 Aug 1883 in Tobyhanna and they then returned to Germany. The first wife (Anna Christiana HEINZ) died, so Albin then married his housekeeper, Berta Fortunata FRITSCHE b. 17 May 1865, and had a son and that son, Willie Ernst SOMMER b. 18 Sep 1896 came to the USA abt 1922. My parents followed these people in the later 20s. I have, since they are now all deceased, discovered that my family and the SOMMER family are related many times sharing over 10 ancestors. I am friends with descendants Willie SOMMERS. I am interested in locating Pennsylvania records about the Hermann SOMMER and Albin SOMMER families. I believe these records to be in Monroe county and maybe Lackawanna County as family lore says they also lived in Scranton. Hermann's occupation in Germany was a Master Butcher. Hermann and Marie had three children, Annie, Laura and Hulda, when they arrived in America and a 4th child Emma was born in Pennsylvania about June 1883. By 1900 the Hermann SOMMER family was in Kellogg, Idaho (following the mining boom there). They had a restaurant and hotel in Kellogg, Shoshone county, Idaho. Herman and Marie had other children in Idaho and they both died there. Family lore also says they lived in Scranton as well during their Pennsylvania stay before coming to Idaho. I do not know how many years they were in Pennsylvania - or where, for sure, but by 1900 they were in Kellogg, Shoshone County, Idaho. Having been born the youngest in my family I thought these people were just friends of my family in Kellogg, Idaho. I did not know at the time that my parents followed these people to America, let alone that they were related (which is something none of them knew). Now I need expert advice from you Monroe County researchers where to look for birth records in that area in 1883 and anything else wherein records were made by these immigrants in Monroe County, Pennsylvania in the early 1880s after their immigration in 1882. Trudy Muller Lundy Spokane