"Donna Hrynkiw" <Donna.Hrynkiw@kwantlen.ca> wrote: > Terrific! Thank-you Richard. You've given me several new avenues > for investigation. > > > Note that the state line between North and South Dakota is on the > > border between Range 128 North and 129 North > > Could you tell me how you inferred this? Or is it something you > just knew from growing up in the area? I grew up in a Township that was in range 127 North and knew there was one additional township between it and the state line. I confirmed the numbering by finding maps of both Dickey County, ND, the county directly across the state line into North Dakota and McIntoish County, the one you are interested in and the one just to the west of Dickey County. The southern tier of townships in both counties are in Range 129 North. There is additional information confirming this ast the McIntosh County GenWeb site. > "Joseph Lutz" appeared on your list as one of the > homesteaders and is the name of one of the brothers I'm > investigating (although it appears there were several Joseph LUTZ's > in the Dakotas in this period. I'm trying to determine which one > belongs to 'my' LUTZ family), and the family is indeed German from > Russia. Have you done your census work? A quick check shows a Joseph Lutz in McIntosh County, born 1853 in Russia. Several children, no Franz, last child born in 1890 in North Dakota, the next older born 1888 in Russia. Wife was Magdalene; they were married for 20 years, oldest child in household was 15, meaning Franz could be elsewhere, but only the name Frank found in index and I didn't look at those. Richard "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com>