This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kresen, Berndt, Zarnstorff, et al Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QFC.2ACE/764 Message Board Post: I'm looking for info on my maternal grandfather's family. Herman Augustus Wilhelm Kresen was born in Walworth Co, WI 6/3/1896 to German immigrants. His parents Carl Frank (aka Karl Ferdinand) Kresen and Minnie Augusta Berndt are buried in Hudson Cem, Lyons, Walworth Co. Grandpa Kresen lived in Tomahawk, Lincoln Co, Wisconsin and married Emmy "unknown" after he and my Grandma divorced in the 1940s. Two of his sisters married Zarnstorff brothers, and I don't have any more info on the Zarnstorff line but would like to have it. I've found several distant cousins on this side in the past year but we're all "stuck" trying to find more info about our ancestry. We believe the Kresen surname was changed from something else similar - Kressin, Kresin, etc. I'm in KY and haven't been able to get to WI to do any research. Any help is greatly appreciated! Kathy Wathen Jordan, [email protected] :-)