Nicole, I don't know how to isolate which Sandberg, but I've had luck finding German town names in church records of US German churches. Were they Catholic or Lutheran? Also who were their friends? They might have more information about their hometowns and they may have come from the same place. Lisa Gorrell On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Nicole La Rue <nikkisbc@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I always seem to find myself in a rut when a family line I'm following > takes me to Germany, and it's happened again. I was working on a family > from Germany and was trying to find out where in Germany they were from but > all the usual suspects (marriage recs from the children, death records of > all, obits, etc.) were telling me was "Germany". This week, I was able to > locate the two passenger lists, one for the husband and one for the wife > (with family), stating they left Bremen and arrived in 1905 and 1906 > respectively before settling in Cleveland, OH. Both lists name the last > residence as Sandberg, Germany. When I entered a general Yahoo search for > Sandberg, Germany, just to see what popped up, I found a Wikipedia entry > for a Sandberg municipality within Bavaria. However, when I tried to get > some additional information on Sandberg entries in Meyers Orts, I ran into > half a page's worth of entries. I don't generally do German research and > have probably only > used Meyers Orts maybe 6 times in the past, but I've never come across so > many entries for a place name. I'm lost. Where do I go from here to try and > isolate the correct location for this family? It looks like entry 1 in > Meyers Orts is the area in Bavaria that I've seen on Wikipedia, but there > are so many more, I'm not sure what to do. > > Thanks for any info! > Nikki LaRue > The Transitional Genealogists List was created to provide a supportive > environment for genealogists to learn best practices as they transition to > professional level work. Please respect the kind intentions of this list. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TRANSITIONAL-GENEALOGISTS-FORUM-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >