HI, IM JOAN GASSER ROMANICK. ON THE WEST COAST GASSER IS A VERY RARE NAME. MY GRANDFATHER FREDERICK GASSER SAILED HERE W/BROTHER WILLIAM? I THINK WAS HIS BROTHERS NAME, FROM BERNE, SWITZERLAND. HE THEN SETTLED IN/AROUND THE DALLES, OREGON AND MARRIED MY GRANDMOTHER NELLIE M. KLEIN. THEY HAD ALOT OF OFFSPRING , MANY DIED IN INFANCY, AND I HAVE ONE AUNT LEFT, GLADYES GASSER MAREB FROM BOSTON, MASS. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM ANY/ALL PEOPLE FROM THIS LINEAGE. JOAN ROMANICK