This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clouse/Klaus Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zIJ.2ACEB/287.1 Message Board Post: My gggrandfather had a son George that we are having trouble locating as well. We estimated his birth to be about 1846 though. I don't know if we are talking about the same George. He would have been born in western PA - near Butler. Fathers name Michael KLAUS, mother Maria Eva Schmidt. Let me know!