Tricia, Do you have the parents names for John Zimmermann? I may be able to connect if you have the names of the parents. I have one whose wife is not known to me yet, but several of the children you list match the names of the children I have and they are from the same region. Waiting to here from you, Debie http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sebring/index.htm (Our Purple Heart database) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wicalume/ (Calumet Cty, WIS, GenWeb) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wisheboy/ (Sheboygan Cty, WIS, GenWeb Page) http://www.excel.net/~sebring/home.htm (our family homepage) http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/l/i/Debie-J-Blindauer/ (Our surname database)