This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Herman, Birchmeier Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WBC.2ACI/978.1 Message Board Post: I don't know that much about how we may be related. I can tell you my great grandmother was Elizabeth Herman and married Michael Birchmeier & they came from around Germany. she had at least one child she named Herman Cornelius B...Thank you Jerry