This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Desch, Claus, Herr Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AFB.2ACI/3295.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I have not seen the LDS 1880 US Census CD so I can't help you there. Regarding John Joseph Desch and his siblings. I show three children of John Michael Desch and his wife Mary E. (surname unknown): John Joseph, Catherine (b abt 1852), and George (b abt 1864). I do have Gertrude Rose Desch having married Lloyd Bunting but I only have one child of their union - Lloyd Bunting. I assume there were more children. I do not have the wards of the Desch clan members that stayed in Baltimore. By 1880 my ancestor, Joseph G. Desch (son of Phillip and Anna Marie Herr Desch) had moved to Columbia, PA and both Phillip and Anna Marie were deceased. Phillip died in Weissenburg, Germany on a visit to the old country and Anna Marie died in Baltimore around 1875. Do you have any further info on the dates for Anna Marie? I can tell you that John Joseph Desch was running the Desch Hotel in Baltimore at some point but I'm not sure if it was 1880 or after. I'm told the Desch Hotel was in the downtown area of present-day Baltimore in proximity to the AAA office if that means anything to you.