> From: URQ5@aol.com [mailto:URQ5@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 11:07 AM > > In a message dated 05/09/2000 10:16:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > dkortenk@uwsp.edu writes: > > << My gg-grandfather, Simon SCHERMER, #54 Saint Philip St., > also died in 1854 > (exact date and cause unknown). >> > > Greetings from SC. Are you familiar with "The SCHIRMER > Diaries?" If not, it > might be a possible source of info for you. > URQ Greetings from Wisconsin. I'm not famliar with "The SCHIRMER Diaries." I doubt they relate to Simon SCHERMER, whose name was never written as SCHIRMER. He emigrated from Holland about 1835 to Charleston and later started an import-export business. I have traced his ancestry to Adriaan J. SCHERMER, born about 1630 in Holland. Thanks for writing. Daniel Daniel J. Kortenkamp, Ph.D. dkortenk@uwsp.edu Dept. of Psychology University of Wisconsin fax: 715 346-2778 Stevens Point, WI 54481 http://www.uwsp.edu/acad/psych/dk/danielpg.htm