This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KLEIN, KLEINSCHMIDT,HEJKA Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/WFC.2ACI/5644 Message Board Post: LOOKING FOR ANY INFO. ON THREE KLEIN'S WHO CAME TO AMERICA IN 1877 ,PAUL,MICHAEL AND JOHN, THEIR NAME WAS SHORTENED BY AN IRISH WORKER AT ELLIS ISLAND WHO TOLD THEM THE NAME KLEINSCHMIDT WAS TO LONG. JOHN GOT SEPERATED FROM HIS BROTHERS IN CHICAGO WHO WERE ON THEIR WAY TO WISCONSIN TO LIVE WITH RELATIVES ,NEVER TO BE SEEN OR HEARD FROM,THEIR PARENTS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO COME TO THE U.S.