Attention: Gale
Erika
Bernd
Thank you for your response to my posting. I guess you could say I took a sabbatical for other issues and I concentrated on finding my maternal great grandfather, Jacob Haas.
I will follow your suggestions starting with a search of Catholic records in Hildesheim. I have ignored that aspect of my search because I found a record that says one of Julius' sons was baptized in a Protestant church in New Orleans and Julius' wife was baptized in the Dom Catheral in Berlin. That may have been a mistake to come to that conclusion. I intend to order film from the local LDS library containing Catholic records. I know there were several Catholic churches in Hildesheim and perhaps one of you can point me to one. As I researched Julius I am convinced he was born in 1827 and the spelling of his name was BURGDORF. There are several variations of Burgdorf on records after he came to America including death records.
The saying goes that even a blind squirrel will occasionally find an acorn, but this squirrel has not been so lucky.
The best of everything to all, Max