In a message dated 97-10-12 15:26:28 EDT, you write: << This experience exactly parallels the experience of the the English Puritans (Pilgrims) who settled at Plymouth. The Pilgrims went to Holland for religious freedom and left for America when their children were becoming Dutch culturally. Do you think that a part of the group came to a part of America other than Plymouth?>> I am sure there were other groups who left. The Separatists were another group that left with the Puritains. And I have no doubt that they settled all along the coast. The English BTW were not the only group that were afraid of loosing their culture. Several German religious sects left Holland and migrated to the Americas in order to preserve their culture. At one time Craig also told me that he had also heard that the brothers had brought a shipload of fine lumber to Maryland for Lord Baltimore and that is how they got the money to buy land in Maryland. The trouble with these stories is that like all oral traditions, they get mixed up and intertwined. (like why would they import lumber to a forest :-) ) Also, I am getting the story third hand sort a speak, as I never personally knew any of the Nebraska family. There are other stories of a plantation and slaves and the Civil War that I cannot corralate with what I know of when the family came to Nebraska. <<BTW, I assume you are part of the family that owns the Sapp Bros. truck stops in Nebraska (the ones with the big coffee pot on the roof). >> No, I don't think that we are closely related, if at all. I don't believe that they claim any relation to our family (that I am aware of). Marge in WY Marge Sapp Mickelson