Hi Garry, Thanks for responding, Garry. When I received that newspaper article stating there was a belief that Jacob Fryburger (sp) was thought to be Jewish I really was excited as that opens up a whole new culture and new way to research information in Europe. I thought someone had already done the research. There were so many kids in that family that no doubt someone has already done the research and I just don't know about it. In the past several years I was just too busy writing my book on my mother's lines (Chase, Sherman, Hathaway to name a few) to worry about the Reeder side. Thanks for your comments. Ginger in AZ.