This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Salzwedel Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2EC.2ACE/55.513.518.520.564 Message Board Post: Our Salwedels are descended from Johann Ludwig S. (1808-1862) of Germany and his wife, Hanna Carolina Friederika Maronn (1811-1891). They were married Aug 20, 1835 in Belkhow, Prussia (now Germany). Their children: Herman Ludwig Friedrich S. (b. 1835, Molstow, Pomerania); August Albert Wilhelm S. (b. 1838, Gumminshoff, Kreis Greifenberg); Martin Wilhelm Ferdinand S (b. 1840, same place); Emilie F. Augusta S. (b 1843 Tribsow, Pomeraina); Johanne Louise Auguste S. (b 1845, Tribsow) and Albertina W. Caroline S. (b 1849, Tribsow) We are descended from Martin (1840-1919), above, who married Bertha Lena Jandt (1856-1926, of Belgard, Kreis Belgard, Germany). They married in 1877 in La Crosse Co., WI, and had Herman, Otto, Charles, Amelia, Wilhelmina and Wilhelm.