In a message dated 5/11/02 2:08:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Would like to hear from anyone in these areas knowing of or about The Jochum > family. My forebears left Germany about 1860. They married into the Irsch, > Gorges and Stein families. B Jochum > My g-grandmother was Katharina Jochum Riotte born October 20, 1867, in Neunkirchen / Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Germany. Her death cert. states her father was Peter Gouchaim and her mother was ? Schinemann. Katharina married Joseph Emil Riotte on June 30, 1890, in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wallingford, Connecticut, USA. She died December 8, 1904. Any connection? Katharina is my "brick wall" Peggy Riotte