Hello to all , thank you for your great support. Giving you the background story of this search might help for a further result. Soon after WW II an American soldier showed up at the Gorges family here and introduced himself as a descendant of Matthias Gorges. Mail -contact was kept for a couple of years but then it broke off again. Now 50 years later the present generation is trying to find the American cousins again. [As often, it is not my own family I am searching but a support I try to give to somebody else in my parish] As Matthias Georges (with that spelling) settled in Chilton , Calumet, (1880 census), it might be an idea to search him there. I have already checked the Calumet website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~calumet/calumt.htm with no result. Another info I have, checking the 1880 census for Chilton I found Peter Koster with his wife Catharina and a son Joseph. Peter Koster and Catharine were Matthias Gorges parents-in-law. Only from the census I found out that they had emigrated, too. So perhaps with your help overthere it might be possible to catch the Gorges again. thank you and sincere regards, Ursula mailto: ursula<at>ursula-buchholz.com http://www.ursula-buchholz.com