Dear Jackie, Thanks - I'm fairly sure the 1880 is correct for Louis Nissen - as I was at state library here and found 1894 City Directory linking Louis and Margaret (widow Christian) to same address...but all the later census data for Maria shows her born in Germany and not here until 1881. Thus my dilemma - unless I find the Holst family in 1895 census (state) Al Al Dawson, Iowa City, Iowa - MA, History, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1973 Visit my website at: www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/a/w/Al--Dawson/ Ancestor Birthday: John Warner, September 26, 1649, Hadley MA. Source: Sylvester Judd, "The History of Hadley Massachusetts" (Springfield, Mass: H.R. Huntting & Company, 1905), p. 399.