Hi,
My name is Sandy Macht and I saw your post on Ancestry.com. I am also researching the surname MACHT. (my husbands family).
His great-grandfather was GUSTAV MACHT, born in Blankenberg Germany on March 8 1875. ( I think I have narrowed it down to the Blankenberg near the Saale River.) He was married to "Mary Kate " Thiem.
GUSYAV'S father was JOHANN MACHT.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Sandy Macht