This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fiedler, Merkel, Fisher, Wilfert Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BkB.2ACE/845 Message Board Post: My Great-grandfather came to America in 1889. The ship he took was the Ems. Listed with him are 3 other men from the same town in Germany (Bavaria). It was listed as Naila. The men were Georg Merkel 23, Niels Fisher 22, Heinrich Wilfert 25, and my great-grandfather...Heinrich (Henry)Fiedler. His wife's name was Mary Meyers (although they did not come over at the same time). This makes all the men born in the 1860s. I would love to find out more about him before he came to America and also any of his relatives. I am hoping that someone will know one of these "friends."