Hi I too have Schaeffers on my tree, do you know what area yours are from? Mine married into the BUDENBERG family and had a business called SCHAEFFER & BUDENBERG. Henriette BUDENBERG 1829-1880 of Neuenkirchen = Bernhard August SCHAEFFER from Hennig-Huffen 1823-1877 they had eight children. Caroline Stockdale NZ >snip Researching my father's side of the family. His father, Fredrich Carl ENGELHARDT, was born 21 Jan 1863 in Frankfurt, Germany to Christian ENGELHARDT and Johanna Nettie BEHRENDS. He had a sister, Caroline ENGELHARDT, who remained in Germany and married Carl SCHAEFER. <