Recently I sent a message giving some of the particulars presented by
Gertrude Fraley about the German line of Ringgold Carman. If you
would like to see this presented more elegantly, and further back in
Germany, go to:
http://www.carman.net/matthias.htm
This site also has information about another German Carman ancestor,
Mattheus whose descendants went from Germany to Canada, to Minnesota to
California in the present century.
A scanned copy of part of the original Fraley document, [not too well
presented, but this is a hobby] is on the Carman Roots mailing list at:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/7636/fraley.htm.
If anyone has any comments or additions, please send them to the list.