Dear Barbara, I have seen your entry in the Message-board. You say, that your Dames-line came from "Hammerstien". Is this perhaps "Hammerstein", the little village at the rhine-river between Bonn and Mainz? If you can confirm this, please contact me. My family is from Irlich, 5 miles from Hammerstein. In this region all Dames are related to each other. I have my ancestors back to 1666.
Bernhard Dames, Germany