This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vl.2ADE/247 Message Board Post: To M. Knight: Thanks for all the information on Detlef Dose and his family. i already have all this information. I am looking for the parents of Detlef - i.e. August Fredrich Dose born 1841 in Germany and his wife Christina Sitan Schildhauer Dose born 1838 in Germany. August died between 1903-1905 in Iowa. We know he was still living in 1902 and Christina is snown as a widow in a 1905 Iowa census. Christina died in 1921-1922. She was stilll ifing with her son Detlef. A living descendant of these persons said they were burid in a small cemetery (she attended Christina's funeral along with her Uncle Ted Dose) near where the interstate highway was built and "that the cemetery was just plowed under and the gravestones dumped. All listings for those persons were simply blacked out in the iowa vital statistic records". I have seen Iowa records in our library and it is true that there are many blacked out entries in the records. Christina Dose was my great grandmother. August was he! r second husband. The family immigrated from Germany in 1881. According to the 1900 U.S. census she was the mother of 11 children, however only four - Detlef and his two sisters, and my grandfather, her child by a first marriage were living and accompanied the family to the U.S. I seem to remember seeing in the 1920 census that the family was registererd in the Washington township. Ila Birrell