This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FESTERLING Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2FC.2ACI/1642.3 Message Board Post: Is this your FESTERLING? Christian Friedrich b.Nov. 22, 1840 father Christian Heinrich FESTERLING mother Johanne Christiane Friedericke LIPPS (may have some relation to a SCHMIDT - hard to read) Keep in mind the first name was considered the "formal" name in Germany, and the child usually went by the second or third name. I have access to more info. I am not related, however; believe your FESTERLINGs were from the same village in Germany as my HARTMANNs and others who settled in the Sheboygan area. Contact me if you are interested.