Hello again I want to thank everyone who has responded to my earlier question. I have another one. My great uncle Ferdinand Pluym became a citizen of the USA on February 26, 1902 (Jo Daviess County, I own the certificate), in 1930 he was a milkman in Dubuque, and lived at 1731 Elm Street. In 1930 he travelled to Germany and the Netherlands via New York and Rotterdam (I also own his passport), where he visited his brother, my grandfather. He died at my grandfather's on February 6, 1935. It says in the death certificate he was married to a Julia Cropy. I asked about her on www.familyhistory.com, but nobody responded to her surname, a few responded on the Pluym surname. Has anyone of you ever heard the surname Cropy or does anyone happen to know who my great aunt was? Jan Melssen The Netherlands