This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kirschvink, Schneider Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CAC.2ACI/305.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My cousin and I have been doing a great deal of research on the Kirschvink family. My great-great grandmother was Mary Katherine Kirschvink (b 1856) in Raeren Prussia. Her parents were Leonhard Kirschvink (b. 6 Nov 1830 in Raeren Germany) and Anna Marie von Hansen (b 28 Dec 1830 in Petergensfeld, Prussia) who immigrated in 1857 to New Braunfels Texas . Mary Katherine has several siblings: Johan Leonard, Moriz or Mauritz, Leonard J, Magdalena, Anna Whilhemina, Katerina Ann, Elizabeth, and Joseph Raymond. Mary Katherine married Jacob Peter Schneider (b. 1852 in New Braunfels, Texas). Mary Katherine and Jacob Peter had five children: Leonard John, Charles Joseph, Anna Margaret, Edward Thomas, and Francis Ralph. I have much more information if this is the family you are seeking.