This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bushmann, Ende, Barr, and Merifield Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AN.2ADE/631.5.1.1 Message Board Post: Becki, let me know if I could help you in any way. As you probably know, the germans changed the spelling of their names many times. They started out Buschman, went to Bushmann, and now spell it Bushman. John H Bushmann b1869 d 1954, & Anna Bushmann b1880 d 1939, were my aunt & uncle.