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Hi, Julia. I can share my Kramers with you. I think they are further back than yours, but I received this information from a German genealogist who has since passed away. He had access to the actual records and I have his list of sources. They appear to have been in Saarlouis, Saarland, but their descendants moved to Puttlingen, Saarland which is not too far away. From there they came to the U.S., which is where I'm from. BTW, your English is excellent.

Johann Kramer b. 1600 in Saarwellingen, Saarlouis, Saarland m. Anna Muller b. 1600 in the same town.

Jakob Kremer b. 1630 in Knorscheid, Lorbach, Saarlouis, Saarland m. Margarethe
Dorthen b. 1633 in Schwalbach, Saarlouis, Saarland.

Johann Sebastian Kremer b. 1660 in Schwalbach, Saarlouis, Saarland m.
Margarethe Mayer b. 1665 in Schwarzenholz, Saarwellingen, Saarlouis,
Saarland.

Anna Margarethe Kramer b. 9/5/1683 in Schwalbach, Saarlouis, Saarland m.
Georg Altmeyer b. 2/19/1663 in Bous, Saarlouis, Saarland.

The Altmeyer ancestor married a Bosmann, who married a Geibel - and my married name is Geibel. The Geibel family immigrated to the U.S. from Puttlingen. I have more information on these Kramer families, this is just my direct line. If you have an email address, I can scan the pages in and send them to you (also if you can download a .pdf file).

I wonder since our families come from the same part of Germany if we are actually distantly related???

Linda Nead