This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cordes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/mkB.2ACI/346.2 Message Board Post: This may be the one -- b. 8 May 1858 in Wapeldorf, Oldenburg, Germany; died Warrenton, Tx. ...this is from a German website on Oldenburg Emigration........ http://www.genealogienetz.de/vereine/OGF/auswanderer/auswanderer.html Some of the other Cordes names listed there may be related.