This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: kumbera, kumberg Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2EC.2ACE/2763 Message Board Post: My grandmother was told (by a kumbera descendant?) that the two families are connected. If that is so how? She was given copies of coorespondance relating to a visit to Vienna Austria in which a Marcel Kumberg told her that they were in fact from the same family or a conection thereof. He was to send her the proof when he got out of the hospital and since she never heard from him again it is assumed that he died. I have had no luck looking up the kumbergs and am wondering if perhaps I could find a connection between the two families and find some of my grandmothers ancestors that way. She is a descendant of William Frank Kumberg born in Arnstadt Germany in 1846. He landed in New york worked in New York, New Orleans, and St. Louis and later to Atchison KS. as a shoemaker. He married Carolyn Karksick of Missouri in 1875 and the moved to Kansas. Any information would be appreciated.