HI, How interesting to find someone with the last name of Harms living in Germany! Everything that I know is posted on ancestry.com under the name of Harm Mangels if you do a search.
What I know is that the first name that we have is Harm Mangles from about 1750. His son Garlich Harms is my Gt Gt Grandfather. Garlich also had a brother Henrich Harms. The boys were born about 1770. Garlich married Hiemke Ladewig and Henrich married Neinke Maria. We don't know if there were more children.
We have pretty complete information on Garlich after his marriage, but we have nothing on Henrich.
There are bits and pieces that we are still looking for to complete the puzzle for Garlich and we are looking for anything on Henrich.
We know that the family moved to Carolinensiel about 1859. The last children were born there.
I have lots of photos and would be glad to share them with you. We have several that were taken in Germany in about 1866. None are labeled, but we have been able to label most of them, by referring to more current photos that we have that were labeled.
If you want you can contact me at Highstakesranch@aol.com.
Won't it be cool if we could find a connection to our families!
Let me know if you have any other questions that I might be able to answer. Cindy