Loren, Thanks for your early reply ! Will look forward to hearing from Kathy and fully understand your weather problems, both from hearing of them via TV and being a Canadian :-)))) Al Folkers -----Original Message----- From: Loren G. <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 7:58 PM Subject: Re: [ILWILL-L] Folkers >Sirs, Kathy Zavada is the one who can help, once the weather improves. Loren > >At 08:13 PM 1/15/99 -0800, you wrote: >>Greetings from Canada, >> >>I have but recently discovered that a branch of my Folkers family came to >>and continues to reside in the Frankfort, IL area, this dates back to 1849 >>when one Johnson Folkers, then age 13 came to America with an Uncle, >>Diedrich Brumund to the Frankfort, IL area. >> >>Johnsons father and my GGrandfather Peter Folkers were brothers, their >>father Frank T. (and the T. is very important because of other Folkers with >>Initials very similar) the T. standing for Theilen, followed with the other >>4 children in 1852, his wife having died in 1843, Ostfriesland, >>Niedersachen, Germany. >> >>Presently, the families of Herbert P. Folkers of Frankfort, IL., and Frank >>Folkers of Chicago,IL., and other unknown Folkers, would be Johnson's >>descendents. >> >>Johnson Folkers, a civil war veteran, was a well known and very successful >>businessman of Frankfort, businesses which he passed on to his three sons. >> >>Looking for any information on these people or anyone who might be >>interested in Folkers research and of course descendents. >> >>Al Folkers >>Calgary, Alberta, Canada >>[email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >