This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zIJ.2ACEB/174.178.1 Message Board Post: This may be a connection for me. My gggf was Charles Clouse, immigrant from Alsace, who went from Erie Co NY to Iowa. One of his sons (mysteriously to me) lived in Minnesota briefly and had a child who was born there. I am seeing hints that this was a laarge family of brothers who gradually moved to Ohio and NY in the 1840s. Some stayed in Ohio and some dispersed across the country, like mine. I have not been able to find any firm documentation, but I suspect that your Charles and mine were related. Thanks.