This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bethrau1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.frisch/232.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Please keep in mind that many records, especially census records, commonly have mistakes in them. In 1920 I find Susie and Benjamin in Meade County, South Dakota, and by 1930 they are in Iowa. In 1920, Susie states she is 36 years old and entered the U.S. in 1892. With a birth date of about 1884, that would mean she entered the U.S. at age 8, leading me to believe she came with family. In 1930, Susy [sic] is listed as age 49 and states she was 30 at the time of her first marriage. Born in Luxembourg, her native tongue is listed as German. Ben is listed in the 1910 West, Meade County, South Dakota census. Your grandmother is in nearby Sturgis, Meade County: FRISCH, Sussie [sic] servant, age 27, single, born Germany, doing general house work. I don't find an immigration record for Susan under any variation of spellings for her first and last name. I don't find her in the 1900 U.S. census. The closest I can find is a woman named Susan Frisch, about 1870 in Minnesota to parents born in Luxembourg. There are Meade County land records for Susie Frisch in March of 1912, so I believe the marriage must have taken place soon after. My suggestion is for you to send for their marriage record from Meade County, South Dakota, to see whether family information is listed for Susan, or perhaps a birth town. Here is the link to the volunteer-run Meade County, SD, genweb site. There you will find a lookup volunteer who may be able to find more records for you. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sdmeade/ Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.