The California Genealogical Soc. publication, "The California Nugget," spring 2010 (Vol. II, issue 1) issue, has some Robinsons (Eliza/Elizabeth, Jacob, Louis, William) in it (pp. 14, 15, 18, 22)--probably no one cares, but i will tell you about it. Article title: Louis Schwoerer and Sophia Henrietta Schlechtweg: Pioneers of Murphys, Calaveras County (by Barry F. Schwoerer and Lori Schwoerer). It is followed by two descendancy charts. (Geez - the system does not like the spelling of 'descendancy'! Annoying!) "Eventually Sophia Henrietta's (she was dau of John [J.G.; George] Schlechtweg) brothers changed their last name to Robinson, citing 'difficult pronunciation and otherwise inconvenience' with the last name Schlechtweg. John Schlechtweg was natualized on 7 July 1858 while living in Maine." (Far's i know 'Schlechtweg' means 'bad path' or 'bad road' - 'Robinson' seems better to me! It could, however, kinda mess up DNA matches and other efforts to trace a line!) "Also on the manifest for the *SS Northern Light* [from Boston] was a Jacob Schwoerer, probably Sophia Henrietta's younger brother, Jacob Schlechtweg, and Eliza Robinson, and child. Several members of the Schlechtweg family had changed their surname to Robinson." "Once in Nicaragua . . . crossed the Isthmus by horse and buggy . . . . *SS Brother Jonathan* to California," arr. San Francisco 3 July 1853. "Louis [Lewis] and Sophia Henrietta arrived in Murphys on 5 July 1853 . . . . joined her brothers, Louis and William Robinson, who had come to Murphys a few years before." . . . . "William, Sophia Henrietta's brother, returned to Boston and with his sister Elizabeth followed their father to Maine where they are found in the 1860 census. Louis Robinson (Schlechtweg) remained in California at least through 1859 when he is identified . . . fire . . . property . . . . " In the charts are other surnames, among them: Schmid and Schmidt, Haupt, Schaefer, Bryan, Ellis, Learned, Inks, McFall, Brech (Strasbourg, Alsace, France - maybe one of my relatives . . . mine are 'Brecht'), Hendrick, Reed, Simpson, Sciaccaluga, Rudolph, Schlageter, (Schwaerr, appears in article as variant of Schwoerer) and probably a few i missed. I am sure this is confusing, but the whole article, which one could get, would be less confusing, and it is probably nothing compared to the confusion of trying to trace a Robinson line with a name change! Sophia Henrietta [or Henrietta Sophia - no one knows], 'a well-known midwife and nurse,' in Calaveras County, where the Gold Rush was going strong, was born in Saxony abt 1832; died 1898. She and her husband Louis/Ludwig Schwoerer (got a homestead patent) did not strike gold, but reared eight children, seven born in Murphys.