This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BUCHHOLTZ, SEMROW, BARTELL, SALZWADEL, SANSBURG Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/729 Message Board Post: I am seeking connections to the following Buchholtz (Buchholz / Buckholtz) families: Chris (Christopher Columbus?) Buchholtz who married Wilhelmina Salzwadel. Among their children were: Augusta Buchholtz b. Germany who married (1) John Sandsburg in 1870 in Jackson County, Wisconsin, and (2) married Ferdinand Rubow in 1876 in LaCrosse County. Children of first marriage may have been Mina/Minnie/Wilhelmina, August, and Julius; birthdates between 1870-1876 in Wisconsin. Only child of second marriage born in Wisconsin was Ida Rubow b. 1877 in LaCrosse; others born in Moody County, South Dakota in 1883, 1886, 1887 and 1889. August Buchholtz who married Eliza Brinker; their children were Amos John, Mary, Leroy and Elmer Buchholtz; birthdates unknown, ca. 1880 - 1890(??), all born in Wisconsin. Julius Buchholtz who married Eliza Brinker (???); their children were Lilly, Eddie, Henry, Agnes, Lester and Mabel Buchholtz; birthdates unknown, ca 1880 - 1890(??), all born in Wisconsin. Matilda Buchholtz who married William Bartell in Wisconsin; their children were Lilly, Mary, and three other Bartells names unknown; birthdates also unknown, presumably before 1900, all born in Wisconsin. Paulina Buchholtz who married Carl Semrow in Wisconsin; their children were Willie, Carl Jr., Ida, Hulda, Rhynold, Ella and Walter Semrow; birthdates unknown, presumably between 1880 and 1900, all in Wisconsin. William Buchholtz (b. WI 1866) who married Minnie Gutch in Wisconsin; their children were Rynold, Clarence, Leona, and Edna Buchholtz; birthdates presumably between 1880 and 1900, all in Wisconsin.. Other siblings moved to Tacoma, Washington about 1905; they were Otillia Buchholtz (b.Germany 1863) who married August Pohrman in Minnesota in 1884) Albert Louie Buchholtz (b. WI 1868) who married Rachael Robertson in Tacoma, Washington . Adolph Frederick Buchholtz (b. WI 1870) who married Gertrude Lindman Ohberg in Tacoma, Washington about 1907. Are you related to or do you know of anyone related to these Buchholtz families?