Looking to work with others having problems finding Prussian (German) ancestors from "the Old Country". I am researching Wappler and (von) Elias surnames. Locations include in Michigan: Wayne County - Detroit; Houghton County - Calumet; Keweenaw County - Central Mine, Copper Falls, Eagle River, Eagle Harbor. In Wisconsin: Sheboygan County - Sheboygan; Manitowoc County - Libery & Eaton Townships (St. Nazianz); Calumet County - Charlestown. Minnesota: Stearns County - Spring Hill; Saint Louis County - Duluth.
The Elias family: Balthasar 1827-1878 and Nicholas 1832/3-1921. They were either brothers or cousins. Balthasar has decendents that moved to Kansas: Doniphan and Atchison Counties. Nicholas has decendents that relocated from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Wayne County - Detroit (Northwest side - Brightmoor neighborhood) between 1912-1920.
Gottlieb Wappler 1826-1867 has decendents that moved to Detroit post-1912 as well as Illinois - Cook County - Chicago in the mid-1880s.
My information before the U.S. is very limited but I do have information on the above-mentioned persons (Nic Elias and Gottlieb Wappler in particular) and would like to exchange information with others having this same problem.