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/og.2ADI/105.2.1 Message Board Post: Yes this is the Christian Burbes that belongs to this family. I have also seen the 1880 census. Also found the following. Source publication: MOERSDORF, ROBERT. Die Auswanderung aus dem Birkenfelder Land. (Forschungen zur Rheinischen Auswanderung, Part 1.) Bonn: Ludwig Roehrscheid Verlag, 1939, pp. 87-174. Christian Burbes migrated to US in 1847. Emigration from the Birkenfeld region, Christian Burbus Residence: Holland, Illinois Occupation: Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 04 December 1864 Enlisted in Company L, 13th Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 12 December 1864. Mustered out Company L, 13th Cavalry Regiment Illinois on 31 August 1865 in Pilot Knob, MO Burbes, Christian Co L, 13 IL Cav-CW d. 30 Dec 1882 Evergreen, Chester, IL