I know your posting is old, but am hoping you can help me. My German husband's great great grandmother on his mother's mother's side is a Margarete Sievers (aka "Gretje") born 1813 in Hohenkamp, Schleswig-Holstein who married a Peter Wischmann. Margarete's father was a Johann Sievers and her mother was Anna ? (we think, Hinze). Does this family of Sievers show up in your line that settled in Schleswig-Holstein? Barbara Friis