This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.wisconsin.counties.dane/3077.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The records for the Hope Church are located at Trinity United Methodist Church in Madison, WI. . The Hope Evangelical church was never larg enough to support its own preacher and was served by the Evangelical preacher stationed in Madison. The German were usually very good about giving the birthplaces of the Father and Mother in their baptismal records. My memory is that the Busse name is included in the "founders" of that congregation, somewhere in the 1850's Sandy Kintner