This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Oeding Carby Koenig Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/mkB.2ACI/139.4.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Ray: I had not heard of Franz Heinrich Oeding being Thomas Oeding's father, but will ask my dad (he has kind of stopped doing genealogy and I have taken up the mantle) and Lois (Lois Carby is my dad's first cousin - her mother was Mae Oeding, my grandmother Elva Oeding Koenig's older sister). I use Denmark as the country of origin since when Thomas Oeding emigrated to Texas, the part of present-day Germany he came from was actually controlled as part of Denmark at that time, although the Oedings were and are of ethnic German extraction. However there are a great many Oedings in Denmark presently, some of whom I met when I traveled to Copenhagen in 1995. I will try and do some digging on Franz Heinrich Oeding to see if I can find anything. Let me know if you ever find anything and I will do the same. Thanks, JT