Carol, You have hit on something which should be very important to every family genealogist….why did our emigrant-ancestor settle where he did. I have tried to figure out the whys of my ancestors and some were quite simple, they followed someone, not always a relative, (with some variations) to their new home. My Sauer ancestor is still confusing. There were somewhat distant relatives in both the Buffalo and the Ontario Peninsula areas but my family settled in Cleveland, Ohio. I do have three guesses; a Deichelbohrer family also sent by the town of Grossweier at the same time stopped in Cleveland as they had some familial relation there and the Sauer(s) followed, at the time Ohio was the largest wine producing state in the U.S. and in the first city directories after the Sauer family arrived, Landelin Saur (with some terrible misspellings) was identified as a Vine Dresser or the family with all their children merely ran out of transportation money on their way to farm land in Indiana, Illinois or Missouri. djweber djwdjw@ix.netcom.com