Posted on: Sangamon County, Il Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Il/Sangamon/1820 Surname: GJERTSON ------------------------- Adoptee searching for information about man who is believed to be my birth father, James L. Gjertson. Born 1908 in Minnesota, served in World War II with 19th Station Hospital, possibly in Iran. After war, returned to home in in Backus, Minnesota where he knew my birth mother Marie Condon approximately summer 1946. Jim Gjertson died in Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois September 4, 1984 at Haven Nursing HOme. Worked at Pillsbury Mills and was divorced. I have information on his brothers and sisters. Birth father possibly his brother John Gjertson, also of Backus, Minnesota, sons of Magnus and Laura Gjertson.