This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACE/332.334.337.425.664.660.1.1 Message Board Post: I will be happy to help with the Gerhartz line, The one in my back ground, and yours, came from the Rhineland around 1845. Quirin Gerhartz died in 1867. I have a copy of the document dividing up his property after his death. I think he's the further back that we go. I have tried several places in Germany near where the Nett family and others came from bo no avail.