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/QFB.2ACE/679.1 Message Board Post: This was quite popular after 1915 when WW1 started in Europe. Many people in Michigan and other states sutck up for the Germans. Vigilantee commities sprung up all over Michigan. The pro-German people had their barns painted yellow in the middle of the night! Educators and other prominent people took part in this sort of thing. Don`t feel like the lone ranger. Best wishes.