Jody,
    They don't sound familiar. I'd have to know a little more about them. My folks settled in Marion County, KS in 1874. Most branches of the family stayed around the central Kansas area until WWI. By then one branch had moved to Mountain Lake, MN, another to Oklahoma, and yet another to Canada to escape the American draft.
    My Great-grandmother, Susanna Reimer-Krause was the preacher's wife, and she insisted that the family name rhymed with drowsy, not Krauss as in Alison, who's no relation. If your friends can trace their ancestry to the Alexanderwohl Colony in the Ukraine, then they probably are related.
Jim