Hi Ginny, My wife's Great Grandfather was August or Augustus Dobbelear or Dobbler {various other spellings}. If your DeBlaer's are from the Rock Island area, we may be connected. Mark from Georgia >===== Original Message From ILROCKIS-L@rootsweb.com ===== >Content-Type: text/plain > >ILROCKIS-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 112 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [ILROCKIS-L] DEBLAERE [VBasford@aol.com] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from ILROCKIS-D, send a message to > > ILROCKIS-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ > >----- Forwarded Message ----- >From: VBasford@aol.com >To: ILROCKIS-L <ILROCKIS-L@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [ILROCKIS-L] DEBLAERE > >I am searching for a connection to a Henry DeBlaere B. 1862 and D. 1943 - >buried in the Rapids City Catholic Cemetery. His wife, Elodie Teetart B. >1879 and D. 1950, also buried there. In my grandparents mementoes, was >written they were related to my grandmother, Emma DeBlaere, but I do not know >HOW. She died when I was but 10 years old, so I do not know a lot of her >family and am now trying to fill in more on them. Any help would be greatly >appreciated. I have been trying to find full death dates on them so I could >get an obituary on them, but, so far, no luck. Thanks very much. Ginny in >Florida ------------------------------------------------------------ Get your FREE web-based e-mail and newsgroup access at: http://MailAndNews.com Create a new mailbox, or access your existing IMAP4 or POP3 mailbox from anywhere with just a web browser. ------------------------------------------------------------