Welcome Nancy, I enjoyed reading your 'jump in' story. I signed up just a few days ago myself, hoping to uncover information about an elusive relative. My gg-grandmother had 7 brothers and 1 sister who came to America from Germany starting around 1850. I have much information about the family line going back to around 1600, but am not making much headway in tracking down these siblings. I know that one of them, Otto DRUMM, ended up in Tacoma, about 1887. He had a restaurant/bar/tavern. He and his twin brother Eugen (born 1860 in Theisbergstegen, Germany) were the youngest of the siblings, born after the others had already left Germany. I know, from sources in Germany, that on Christmas 1907, the oldest brother, Jacob DRUMM, while visiting his daughter, who had married a R.E. Arnett in Denver on 8 Augus 1885), walked into this establishment. The brothers, although they had never met before, immediately knew each other. They both looked like their father. This story supposedly appeared in an German-American newspaper. I also know that Otto was still alive in 1933. The obituary of another brother, Adolph DRUMM, mentioned him as a surviving family member. So far I have only been able to locate another Otto DRUMM, born in 1891 in Tacoma through the Social Security records. He probably was the other Otto's son. I have contacted the Tacoma Genealogy Society and am waiting for results on a search they are doing. I also found a website for the Tacoma cemeteries. They are looking through their records for me. If anybody out there has any information or suggestions that might help me in finding the descendents of Otto, I would be very, very greatful. Thanks, Brigitte in Arizona