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/YaW.2ACIB/1009.1 Message Board Post: I have a Karl Fischer who was born in Frienwalde, Pomern, Preusian, Germany in approx. 1852. He had brothers Charles and James but I do not have any info on them. They possibly had six sisters. Their father's name was Johann / John and he was a baker. Karl Fischer came to the US at age 21 and changed the spelling of his name to Carl Fisher. He married Bertha Garska in Portage, Wisconsin on Jan. 28, 1878. They had the following children: Anna Adalia, Rose Maria, William Anton, Martha Helena, Henry, Carl, Benjamin, Elsie, Frank and Mabel. Carl was killed when his wagon overturned on him in a creekbed south of Rushville, Nebraska in 1903. Do you think this could be your Charles Fischer?