My family is mainly from Germany, France (Alsace) and Britain. The main brick wall is my great greatgrandfather, WIlliam Macy, born on 08 Mar 1895 in Schuylkill Falls area of PA. The first record of him is 1900 census in Brooklyn. His wife was Christine Brodt from Alsace. All census records I find for him show he was born in PA, his parents in Germany. On his death certificate, they were listed as Joseph & Anna Macy, but have found no trace of them.

On the Brodt side, I was blessed to find a distant cousin in France who sent me his family tree which helped me with that branch immensly. Still looking in Ohio and PA for other relatives.

For the Richters, we have a lot but seem to have hit a bump on the village in the Sohland area they came from. There were 4 brothers that supposedly came to USA, we knew only 2 names, Ernest Gustav and August Robert. They settled in Cass Co. Nebraska.

And now we have found, from an older Richter relative that the other two were probably WIlhelm and Karl (Carl). We do not know when they arrived in USA, but the story is Karl went to Oregon (Probably Multomah area) and WIlhelm (possibly middle name of Ernst) went to Philly where he worked for a newspaper. So far no luck on finding them, but a couple of possiblilies.

If you belong to any of these families or think you may be, let me know, I am very willing to share any information that I have!