Hello Yvonne, Thank you so much for taking the time to help me. The familysearch site has been invaluable to me in my family search. It was there that I discovered that my great-great grandfather's entire family immigrated from Germany. Here is the information that I know: Hermann Nolkemper came to the US first (entered thru New Orleans), and a couple of years later (1859) his parents and 2 brothers and 2 sisters came into NY thru Castlegarden. In the Castlegarden records they list Neukirchen as their last residence. The Castlegarden records had no names, just the first initial of my g-g-g-grandfather. I sent for Hermann's death record and found his father to be Frederick (actually Frederick William and he used both names separately here in the US) Nolkemper and his mother Margaret Rosbach. With that info I found marriage records for Hermann's 2 sisters in NY - Doris and Maria on family search. Yesterday was my greatest find. I had suspected the names of his 2 brothers were Ernst a! nd Julius, but had no concrete proof. While looking on an newspaper archive site, I came across a probate notice for his sister Doris Küttner in Brooklyn (1913). Amazingly, family search had the will scanned! I was able to verify that Ernst Nolkemper of St Louis and Julius Nolkemper of Astoria Queens and later Greenlawn were indeed Hermann's 2 brothers. The will however has raised new questions. It seems Doris (Dorothea in the will) had a falling out with her second husband, and left her estate to her brothers and nieces and nephews. It seems there may have been a sister who remained in Germany when the family immigrated. Doris lists a nephew Heinrich Tittgemeier and niece Marie Klages (nee Tittgemeier) as living in Georgsmarienhütte and a second niece, Elizabeth Sedat (nee Tittgemeier) living in Hanover. My hope is to find the church records for the Frederich William Nolkemper-Margaret Rosbach family to see how many children they had. I do have Frederick's death cert! . which gives his birth as 31 Jan 1812 in Germany. Sorry this! is so l ong, but I wanted to let you know all that I have found out so far. Thanks again. Diane Nesconset, NY On May 20, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Yvonne wrote: > I hope this link works, but I found quite few Nolkemper. Yvonne in California > > http://www.familysearch.org/eng/search/frameset_search.asp?PAGE=igi/search_IGI.asp&clear_form=true > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PRUSSIA-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message