This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Glossenger, Glossinger, Glassinger, Glassenger, Glousender, Glossender, Glosender, Glosenger Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XZ.2ADE/457.1.1 Message Board Post: I have traced my Glossenger line back to a John Glossenger/Glousender/Glossender/etc who was born approx. 1820 in Connecticut. I found some interesting information that confuses me though, which is a John Glossenger in southern Michigan (Berrien County) who was listed in the 1860 census and beyond. In the 1860 census he had married a Regina Griess/Griebb, born in Wurtemburg, Germany, aged 25 at the time of the census, and he was listed as being 39 years old and being born in Massachusetts. Later census records have his birthplace listed as Connecticut, indicating that perhaps a different person answered the census taker about family origins. He had several children, including Oscar Glossenger, my GGG-grandfather. I have found records of Lyle, Marvin, Oscar, Edwin, Gladys, Jesse, and some other Glossengers in the southern Michigan area.