You wrote: >I do not know where in Germany the HANNAPPEL family came. Zimmerman >married Hannappel in PA. USA. >Zimmerman m. GERHARD(t) in Westfalen came to US in 1882-84. >My Zimmerman's were in Koelpin/Kielpin, Germany(some say is now Poland) >in late 1700's to v.early 1800's. Recht & Rohrbacher were mentioned. I >do not know where these villages are. >I next have them in Volklingen, (near Saarland)Rhineland. Volklingen has >a nice book of genealogy in the Salt Lake City Mormon library. This book >is where I got my info on Koelpin, Rohrbacher etc. Had nice genealogy of >my Zimmerman family which I was able to follow up to Westfalen then to >US in 1882-84. I lived in the Rheinlanfd-Pfalz area of SW Germany while serving at Ramstein Air Base. I'm familiar with those towns. They are very close to the French border. The largest city is Saarbrucken. Volklingen is just west of the city and is located on the east bank of the Saar River. Neunkirchen is northeast of the city and Ottweiler is just north of Neunkirchen. Rohrbach is south of Neunkirchen. Rech is NW of Saarbrucken on the west bank of the Saar River. There is no Rohrbacher or Recht in Germany. Koelpin is indeed near Poland. It probably was in Poland at the time of those ancestors. It is about 60 km west of the border, situated in Brandenburg SE of Berlin. My GGGG Grandfather, Johann Jost Zimmerman, came to Philadelphia in 1754 from Siegen, Germany. One of his sons, David was born in PA and moved to Ohio. One of David's sons was Adam born 15 cMay 1819. We have no more information on Adam than that fact. Donald M. Zimmerman Breckenridge, MI