Sending the following to our group in the hope that it might help someone. Leslie ------------------------------- Wisconsin Land Records ------------------------------- Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents from the Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office Last Name First Name Init Date County Acres KOEHLER ANNA M 1848 Calumet 160.0 or Fond du Lac KOEHLER FERDINAND 1848 Dodge 80.0000 KOEHLER GEORGE 1856 Columbia 40.0000 KOEHLER HEINRICH 1858 Richland 147.5500 KOEHLER WILLIAM 1901 Douglas 40.0000 These were found at: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wisconsin/wisconsin.pl If you wish more information about any of these entries, go to this site and type in the surname Koehler. Leslie