This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Deneke, Stephan, Franke, Wiethase, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BZJBAEB/155.3 Message Board Post: The STEPHAN family I research -- Joseph Anton Stephan -- emigrated from Königheim, Baden, Germany between early 1850s to early 1870s. I believe his was a family of five sons Andrew, Benedict, Charles, Gustav, and Franz and settled in Cincinnati Ohio. The emigration certainly occurred prior to 1876, when his granddaughter Mary Anna STEPHAN married my great grandfather Anton DENEKE in Cincinnati OH. The emigration occurred later than her birth in Königheim in 1849 (Feb 1). I have a copy of the Königheim Kirchenbuch, but it is quite difficult to read the handwriting. Thomas Kohn