In a message dated 3/11/2006 12:37:45 PM Mountain Standard Time, ltboehmke@sbcglobal.net writes: But this one family returned to Rocozin, West Prussia in 1888 because they were homesick Some time ago I found a report in the Bohemian Forest journal (Glaub und Heimat) about a family that settled in the SW part of South Dakota near Sioux Falls. After the first family member got a nice large farm going quite well his nephew came from Bohemia to joine him. The uncle divided his land and gave a farm o the nephew. After about a year the nephew was always sick and unable to do much work. The doctor finally said there was no cure for what he had -- it was homesickness for the Bohemian Forest and the only thing for him to do was to go home, which he did. He never returned. Another case I read about happened in St. George Parish near New Ulm. The report was that a farmer's wife was so homesick she packed up her several children and left her husband to return to Bohemia. I imagine there were many unreported cases that are similar. Karen