Hello Dorothea,
I just read your message which was posted under ouderkirk instead of Otterstedt. It therefore took a while for me to happen to see it.
The Otterstedt family from Bremen area is linked to my family OTTERSTEDDE from Muenster area but those two branches separarted some 500 years ago. I have contacted recently some members of the Otterstedt family in order to find out more and to exchange genealogical data. But this has not produced reliable results so far.
I know that a number of family members of the OTTERSTEDT family from Ottersberg/Otterstedt/Bremen immigrated to the US, but I would have to know more facts before I would be in the position to draw lines between them and the family.
It seems there is no connection between the names you mentioned and my father resp. grandfather and the Otterstedde family from Muenster.
I would appreciate if you could give me more data like Birthplace and -date, Spouse etc. in order to investigate deeper.
Please answer directly to
Otterstedde-Muenster@t-online.deHope to hear from you soon
Reiner
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