Hello Helen, From what I can gather, this Emil is probably not a relation. The reason I say this is my grandfather ended up in Buffalo, NY. He came as a teenager in 1889-1890. Thank you,Gary PS Have you any ideas how to check German/French records from the Alsace-Lorraine region. On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:25 PM, <harand8479@aol.com> wrote: > > There was an Emil Park Klaus, b 6/26/1858, who came to the U.S. 1882 thru > Antwerp to Philadelphia. Eventually wound up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died > 9/18/1937 in Cinti. > > He married a Charlotte Lampe and had children: Clara Marie, Karl, Emil Jr. > and Edna. > > In the 1890 Cinti. Directory, he is listed as Emil Clauss living at Flat > 5, Geneva Bldg., Cinti. > > I would have to check my notes, but I think he was possibly a race horse > driver or had something to do with race horses. > > Any possibility of a relation with yours? > Helen > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Clauss <clauss.gary@gmail.com> > To: Alsace-Lorraine <Alsace-Lorraine@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wed, Apr 3, 2013 1:23 pm > Subject: [A-L] Clauss surname > > > Looking for information on Michael Clauss Born August,1872,Alsace-Lorraine. > Father G. Clauss, Mother Barbara Athon. > Emigrated from Alsace region in 1889/1890 > Possible family sponsors in Buffalo,New York > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > -- > Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALSACE-LORRAINE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

> Hello Helen, > From what I can gather, this Emil is probably not a relation. The > reason I say this is my grandfather ended up in Buffalo, NY. He came as a > teenager in 1889-1890. That's no reason to reject a person as a relation! My own grandmother came from Alsace and settled in Massachusetts. Yet her cousin landed in Phily and settled there, and I've only recently re-connected with some of those relations. And my grandmother's nephews and nieces settled in South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Just because they settle in different parts of the US is no reason to assume they are not related. It is generally a bad idea to reject out of hand people who settled in other areas as being relations. Unless you are unconcerned with parallel or peripheral lines of the tree. You may even make it harder on yourself to find clues with that approach. Although, the more common the surname the less likely it will be rewarding to dig far into families in other locations, without some other family linked hint or myth. Brian