Great help, Linda! Sandra will now "get her feet wet" in a very addictive hobby! Ha! Don't we all know it! I have never seen anyone having so little to go on and it will be very instructive how far we can go with as little as we have! Thanks for your very prompt reply! Aida ------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Therkelsen" <lindatherkela@msn.com> To: <GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Shannon-Koch > This is kind of a tough one. Did this couple die in Nevada? Perhaps the > first thing to do is get the death certificates and obituaries, to see if > there is information there. I have been looking in the Minnesota Death > certificate index, located at www.mnhs.org<http://www.mnhs.org/> > and I actually do see both an Emma Shannon and Patrick Shannon dying in > St. Louis County (where Duluth is) in 1938 and 1944. But it is not > possible to see how old these people are from the online index, nor > origin. I had played with the online census a little, and had also seen > some Shannons from Penn. in St. Louis County, but not a Patrick. > Minnesota has a birth index from 1900-1916 (same site), but there are a > lot of problems -- a lot of the babies are not named at the time the birth > is filed, or are just baby. It would really help to have some parents' > names. There are NUMEROUS Kochs in Minnesota, German is actually the > largest immigrant group. Of course, there are German-Bohemians, too, not > as many as other German groups. > Linda > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Aida Kraus<mailto:akibb1@verizon.net> > To: GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:GERMAN-BOHEMIAN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:49 PM > Subject: [GERMAN-BOHEMIAN] Shannon-Koch > > > This is a shot into the dark, but perhaps there is some help out there. > I am looking for Emma Mae Koch (*1910-1918) who married Patrick Shannon > from Pittsburg, PA, somewhen and somewhere in Minnesota between 1934 and > 1936. If anyone out there has a Koch family that would show Emma Mae as a > relative, we then could find a lead to that family. With the surname of > Koch it is obvious that Emma Mae came from a German family, and perhaps > from a German Bohemian family. If you could lead us to some village names > that we could check out, it would be greatly appreciated. > I am doing this for a friend and neighbor of mine who was adopted as > an infant, and she has no papers but her actual birth certificate from > Ely, Nevada, when her parents were "out West" and suffered great > difficulties. An older child died, and she herself was adopted. > Any suggestions will be appreciated by Sandra Branch, a retired > teacher and newbee family researcher. > Aida > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Forgotten how to UNSUBSCRIBE? > Visit > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist/mailinglist.html<http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/mailinglist/mailinglist.html> > > > > ==== GERMAN-BOHEMIAN Mailing List ==== > Visit the German-Bohemian Heritage Society Web Page! > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gbhs/ >