This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BUCHHOLZ, RUBOW, SONENBERG Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oEC.2ACE/584 Message Board Post: My mother's grandfather Ferdinand Rubow was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1832. He came to the US in 1874 and married Augusta Buchholz about 1876. Ferdinand, age 48, and Augusta Rubow, age 32, are shown in the 1880 US Census residing at Melrose, Jackson County, Wisconsin. Children shown are Minnie, age 9-born in 1871, her brothers August, age 7-born 1873, and Hermand, age 5-born 1875, and sister Ida, age 2-born 1878. Since the 1880 Census shows all children were born in Wisconsin, this suggests that, except for Ida, they may must have been born to Augusta Buchholz in an earlier marriage, possibly to Fred Sonenberg in Jackson County. I am trying to document this marriage [ca. 1869-1870] and the births of Minnie, August and Hermand [Julius?] before Augusta married Ferdinand [ca. 1875-1876]...? Can you help...?