This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZKB.2ACE/346.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: A few of the names you mentioned sounded familiar.... Walkenbach, Wassenburg and Schluss. Some married into our family. I talked to my mother who knows that Theodore Schluss married an Anna Lauer, March 14, 1887. She died Feb. 2, 1897 in childbirth (noted in baptismal record). Theodore married again to Leona Wassenburg and the family did go to California. Theodore and Anna had four descendants, Steve, Hermann, Ben, and (Rosa?) Mary Schluss. Steve also went to California. Have more info on Schluss and Lauer descendants. Anna Lauer was my great aunt.