Of the ten families covered on this website, eight originated in Germany. Members emigrated to America from the mid to late 19th century.

The Heiden, Rambow, Knaack, Kanseyer, Dreier and Milhan families all lived in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin region (now called Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) We have followed the Roggerman family back to Rügen Island in the Baltic Sea.

So far, in the documentation for the German members of the Rehmann family, places in Lower Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate have appeared. We will continue to investigate this unusually widespread distribution in the future.