I finally got around to reading my email, sorry to be slow in contacting you :) I recognize Busse and Rabe as names from New Bremen, Auglaize County, Ohio. New Bremen/aka Bremen and Ober Bremen. I have been slowly researching my NIETER ancestry. In an account published on the early settlers of Auglaize County, it described "a community" of Germans in Cincinnati, who had evidently been waiting to move north till some of the Indian population had been moved west. A group from Cincinnati started building the first structures in Bremen and setting up for the women to join them around 1832. The name Bremen was changed to Ober Bremen after it was learned there was already another town in Ohio named Bremen. I would greatly appreciate any info or tips you might come across on NIETER, WAGNER, HELLBUSCH, GUSKY, SCHIERHOLT (or Schierholtz), HEITMAN, or HAESEKER in the areas of your research. (I underlined the most important four for my concern). Hope I didn't tell you things you already knew... and thank you for your attention. J. Nieter