i READ YOUR LETTER,AND WILL TELL YOU WHAT I HAVE, I HAVE AN OTTO VATER WHO WROTE A GERMAN FAMILY TREE IN 1913, WHICH MY GRANDFATHER WAS ABLE TO GET. MY AUNT GET IT TRANSLATTED IN TO ENGLISH. I ALSO HAVE AN OTTO VATER WHO LIVED IN TEXAS, AND MARRIED ELSI DUCKROW, AND HAD TWO DAUGHTERS. I HOPE THIS IS OF SOME HELP FOPR YOU. ALWAYS LINDA VATER LEWIS