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] > > > > > > > > >