The following was found on the IL Gen Web page this morning. Leslie ......... BOHNEN, GIEB, KOEHLER, LISER, SCHAEFER, SCHIESTEL posted by Karlyn Armstrong < kdka@netins.net> on Saturday, March 1, 1997 Joseph Schaefer, immigrated about 1869 to the Chicago area, lived there three years and moved to Bremer County, IA. Died there Oct, 1926 and relatives attending listed as From Chicago were these: Mrs. Margaret Liser (sister), Mrs. Mary Schaefer (sister-in-law, wife of Jake), M/Mrs. Henry Koehler and two children, Mrs. Lizzie Gieb, Mrs. Nick Gieb (might these have been Geib?), Otto Bohnen, Joe Schiestel. People who are more experienced genealogists than I suggest that most of the immigrants to Bremer County came from the wider Cook/Kane County area.