This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BZJBAEB/172.2.1 Message Board Post: Steph, I have researched the Steffan/Steffen/Stephan Families in Germany extensively -I believe the parents of Jacob are from Lampertheim,Hesse-Darmstadt,German state in 1800's Parents: Father: JOHANNES STEFFAN Mother: CHRISTINA SCHMIDT JACOB STEFFAN Christening: 01 AUG 1834 Evangelisch, Lampertheim, Starkenburg, Hessen My G/grandfather -Adam Steffan b:1813 in Lamperthiem is son of Johann Georg Steffan & Anna Maria Schmidt - No Doubt Related ! I have researched & traced another Stephan Family in Cleveland also - Johan Jacob b:1815 - brother to My Adam b:1813 - his son was a Jacob also b:1846 geno