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/SFk.2ACIB/1729.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The book "The House Family of the Mohawk",tells about Christian Hauss or Haus and his journey from Germany to England and than to America around 1708/1709.A lot of House Families in the U.S. and Canada are believed to be of German origin .Others like mine have a long history in England.