This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Schueller Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/TJB.2ACI/1588.1 Message Board Post: Bonnie wrote, "Anna(?) & Michael(?) [SCHUELLER] lived in Holdingford. Both were born in Prussia. Children were Mary, John, Ben, Mike, Elizabeth and Frances. ... I need to verify parent/children relationship, get middles names or Anna's maiden name. ... John had a general store in Holdingford. Frances married Stanley Bieniewicz." Bonnie, this must be a touch surname to research, with many possibilities for variant spellings. The difficulties are compounded by the German penchant for giving children numerous names and using them interchangeably on records. Here's what I found in the 1880 census, MN Stearns, Zion Township: Michael SCHUELLER 47 <1833> PRUS Male Self Anna M. SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 44 <1836> PRUS Female Wife Bernard SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 13 <1867> MINN. Male Son William SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 12 <1868> MINN. Male Son Margareth SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 10 <1870> MINN. Female Dau Peter SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 9 <1871> MINN. Male Son Mary SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 7 <1873> MINN. Female Dau Bernadine SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 3 <1877> MINN. Female Dau Magdalene SCHUELLER Stearns, MN 2 <1878> MINN. Female Dau