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/ZVC.2ACE/1892.1 Message Board Post: Could there be some connection between our Vogt families? Vogt, Klausing, Engel, Klaustermann, Ruvers, Duvel, Weber, Boerschig, Schroeder Johann Casper VOGT Born: 4/6/1842 in Gesmold, Melle Germany near Osnabruck Immigrated on the ship New York 29 Apr 1863 Parents: Johann Konrad Leonardi VOGTand Maria Elizabeth Ann KLAUSING (parents: Henry Heinrich KLAUSING and Marie ENGEL KLAUSTERMANN. Sister: Gertrud Related to a Christine VOGT of Baden This family may connect: Heinrich Clausing, *1680 in Schwagstorf,+23.03.1755 in Schwagstorf Anna Elisabeth Ebker (Ebke), *1680 in Schwagstorf, +24.01.1745 in Schwagstorf Married: Mary RUVERS DUVEL born in Cincinnati Parents: John Henry DUVEL born in Hunteburg 25 dec 1832 Mary Adelheid RUVERS born 5/16/1838 in Bexten Germany Brother: Bernard Henry RUVERS This family is believed to have roots in the Netherlands. Children: 1. Casper-never married 2. Gertrud married Harry WEBER BOERSCHIG (my grandparents) 3. Elizabeth married Billie EISER 4. Alma Louise became a sister of charity and lived in Arizona He lived in Over the Rhine and operated the Union Saloon in Over the Rhine next to Kruslings mineral water with his brother in law August GEISLING MUELLER who married Elizabeth Lee Ruvers Duvel. Later he owned a farm in Delhi. Later he lived in Clifton. Have more information on this Mueller family. He is connected someway to the SCHROEDER family of Covington KY. I believe they are step siblings. He may be connected to the LANG family of New Alsace Indiana and a Dr. William VOGT there. I think his first name was William. Have more information on the Ruver, Weber and Boerschig families.