Thank you for assistance! I do appreciate anything which might be a lead. I do not read German, but perhaps I can see something on the German census. I do have my Great Grandmother Wilhelmina (Offermann) Obrock on the 1910 New York City census. I know she arrived in NYC prior to 1896. I am trying to make the link back to her departure from Germany, & her parents in Ihlienworth. I can not find a ships record. I would like to locate a birth record in Germany, a record of marriage for Johann Offermann & ____ Mingst(?) in Ihlienworth, & other children. I have pictures, taken in Germany, of a large family group (maybe 20 men & 20 women & children), so I suspect I have quite a few relatives in the area between Ihlienworth (a little south west) & CuxHaven on the coast of the North Sea.
Joy