My maternal lines converge on Illinois following emigration from Europe. The first place of record (where the families were coal miners) is in Jackson County 1873-abt. 1890 (SORGMANN & KORDT)[naturalization papers filed here] The next place they moved to was to Perry Co., IL where my grandfather was born in 1893 Ignatius Joseph SORGMANN, son of Mathias SORGMANN & Mary KORDT SORGMANN (the father appears to have been a traveling salesman/retired coal miner and mother Mary worked as a cook at a Catholic hospital). Finally, I find the last days for many of them to be where my maternal line [VALTA/WALTA] is located: Belleville, St. Clair County by the time of the 1900 census. I think the whole crew of children were married there, and they just might be buried there as well! Looking for more relatives! My maternal great grandfather was Mathias "Matthew" SORGMANN (b. 1857 Austria- d. 1959 St. Clair Co., IL); emigrated abt. 1870 to Illinois and received his naturalization papers in Jackson County, IL 1887. There he married into another immigrant family by the name of KORDT(aka CORT). He married Mary, daughter of William & Catarina, and she was born 1871 in Essen, Westfalia. I have her father's naturalization papers, along with friend Henry BORGSMILLER April 1892 in Jackson County. Children of MATHIAS SORGMANN and MARY KORDT are: 2. i. WILLIAM3 SORGMANN, b. June 1888, Illinois; d. November 26, 1918, Mt. Vernon, IL. ii. MATHIAS F. SORGMANN, JR., b. October 1892, Illinois7; d. August 12, 1953, Detroit, Michigan. iii. FRANK J. SORGMANN, b. January 1890, Illinois7; d. Aft. 1929, California. 3. iv. ANNA SORGMANN, b. July 1895, Illinois. v. JOSEPH FERDINAND SORGMANN, b. March 06, 1906, Belleville, St. Clair Co., IL8; d. July 1979, Belleville, St. Clair county, Illinois. vi. VERONICA SORGMANN, d. Bef. 1953. 4. vii. IGNATIUS JOSEPH SORGMANN, b. September 03, 1893, DuQuoin, IL (Perry Co.); d. December 21, 1954, Long Beach, California. viii. GERTRUDE SORGMANN, b. February 1890, Illinois9; d. December 06, 1943; m. FRED "FRITZ" A. PATIENT. ix. FRANCES SORGMANN, b. August 10, 1911, Belleville, IL10; d. January 17, 1920, Belleville, IL11. Generation No. 2 2. WILLIAM3 SORGMANN (MATHIAS (MATHEW)2, VINCENT1) was born June 1888 in Illinois12, and died November 26, 1918 in Mt. Vernon, IL13. He married CARRIE M. STEPHENS October 11, 1912 in St. Louis, Missouri14. Children of WILLIAM SORGMANN and CARRIE STEPHENS are: 5. i. WILLIAM MATTHEW4 SORGMANN, b. June 15, 1914, Mount Vernon, IL; d. January 07, 1992, Tamaroa, ?. ii. VERONICA SORGMANN. iii. LEO JOSEPH SORGMANN, b. April 12, 1917, Mount Vernon, IL15. Today I received Social Security application information on the following: Joseph Ferdinand SORGMANN, son of Mathias Sorgmann & Mary Cort; b. 3/6/1906 Belleville St. Clair Co., IL; died 1979 Belleville, St. Clair Co., IL William Mathew SORGMANN [son of William son of Mathias & Mary]; b. 6/15/1914 Mount Vernon, IL; married to Carrie STEPHENS in Mt. Vernon; he died 1992 and is buried in Belleville, IL[children known: William Jr., Richard, Wilma] Leo Joseph SORGMANN, b. 4/12/1917; son of William & Mary (KORT) SORGMANN IN Mt. Vernon, IL; brother of William Mathew Sorgmann; no further information Karen Souhrada [email protected] Researching: Pennsylvania:..HAGERTY, ROBSON, ATCHESON,MC ALISTER, GEHO, WILLIAMS, BLANEY, MCCLUGAGE, HUDSON, JOBES Illinois.......HAMMANG, KOUDELKA, LIDISKY, SORGMANN, SOUHRADA, VALTA, VOPICKA