With Ankesheil we ended up finding the spelling Hankshile in the 1850 Census. Fortunately a friend added the H in her search or we never would have fnd it. With Wulf we almost missed it when someone added a t to obtain Wulft which was way down the passenger list records. It was purely accidental that I hit on it. You should see what they do with the family Wleike when trying to read the old German handwriting. Remeber the American making a census entry of recording apassenger list puts down what he or she thinks they heard. If you ask a bunch of Germans having the surname Ankesheil who they are they would respond that we are the Ankesheiln. That is why we have 8 families in the New Orleans area with the plural formfor their last name. When writing home some Wolf familes added the plural form for the family and then were refered to as Wulves by translators. :-) Lots of luck.. Eugene M. Wengert wrote: > >> Len, > > > I checked Germans to America and there is none with the name > Auchenberg or even close to that--any other ideas on spelling? > > > Eugene Wengert > Emeritus Professor, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison > President, The Wood Doctor's Rx, LLC > 2872 Charleston Drive > Madison, WI 53711-6503 > 608-271-4441 > Preferred e-mail: WoodDoc@UWAlumni.com > www.WoodWeb.com > > ==== SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > Technical Terms and Rules of the S-H-ROOTS: > http://www.genealogy-sh.com/faq-sh-roots/index.htm > > > . >