To all of the investigators especially from Germany and The Great State of California a big salute. Thank you and I appreciate the linguistics lessons and your research
Btw the family names are (?) Zantow and Auguste Zantow nee' Butow. After great great grandfather Zantow died the widow Auguste later married a Hermann Steinke. The hearing regarded the inheritence given to the 3 Zantow children who came to America.
on a side note my mom said as a child in Wisconsin she remembered some church services and songs were still in German. Thats all gone now. Though she still loves to sing Silent Night in German