Well, since Ardis is including the non French side of her family to the Thanksgiving dinner let me amend my guests. I would love to invite my great grandfather John Schulte and his wife(?) Mary Birch. I haven't been able to find anything on them yet. Supposedly Mary was of the Winnebago tribe and one of these days I will have time to write the Ho-chunks and see if this were true. My grandmother wrote that her mother was a daughter of the chief and that Mary ran away when her dad was injured. My grandma was then placed in an orphanage for year until her dad had remarried and brought her to live with him in chicago when she was a teen,. So I would like to meet them both and find out about them. Also Ardis I know you knew some of my Ahrens family and live near one of my Great Uncle Charley's grandsons. I know that Uncle Charley's wife Mary had been married to a Charley Jensen before my Uncle Charley,. Was he kin to you? Also Ardis I just recently got some articles from our family reunion notebooks that talk about the Ahrens/Christensen reunion. Our Ahrens reunion included great grandma Bertha Precht's sisters' families. My cousin Dorla has had the reunion notebooks copied and has contributed copies of it and the newspaper articles to the Chebanse(maybe Clifton) library if you want to see them. Bertha's sister Charlotte married Thomas Christensen and they are buried in Momence. Was he related to your Christensen side? In the reunion things I just got our Nebraska Ahrens family had written a biography of their dad John Ahrens(my dad's brother who had served in WW1) He related stories of growing up on the family farm. He said that not only did the family speak English in the home, they spoke German, Danish, and some French so they could talk to the neighbors. Wishing everyone a Happy Thanksgiving Rab