This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GROSS, KEPPLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/2FC.2ACI/1748 Message Board Post: I have been working with just vague clues of where in Wisconsin to look for my Great Great Grandfather Friedrich Gross and his wife Johanna Keppler and their children. I knew from 1870/1880 census records in Hancock, Michigan that 4 boys had been born in Wisconsin. I knew that the wives of a couple of the boys had come from the Sheboygan area. Then I got an obituary for my Great Grandfathers brother Emil Gross. Wonderful!! It said he was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I went straight away to every online resource I could find for that county, but alas my family was not to be found. Then tonite, checking the Sheboygan site from Rootsweb again, I got another good piece of evidence. Friedrich L Gross is listed in the Vital Records Birth Index, parents are Friedrich and Johanna Keppler!! So know that I can say I know for sure they were there, I have more questions? What was it about Sheboygan, Wisconsin that made my German ancestors head there? Why can't I find then on the census? Does anyone else out there have Gross relatives from Sheboygan? Friedrich & Johanna's children that I can clearly identify are Ernest, William, Emil, Friedrich, Louis, Albert and Edmund. There may have been 2 children beforehand, but I cannot verify that. Let me know if you have any insight!! Thanks, Liz