hello everyone, i am doing genealogy research on my great grandparents who were either born in or moved to lincoln county kansas in the late 1870's/early 1880's, their parents had all moved to lincoln county as well as several other family members. as i do more research and then revue the posted 1885 lincoln county census i see how many families migrated together from one part of the country to another and also intermarried , it appears many,many people from that census are related in one way or another and i am hoping one or more of you are working on some of them. now for the facts. my great grandfather was frank chaflin BROCKELMAN son of frederick brockelman & mary a. WINEBURG. frank had several brothers and sisters who moved to lincoln county with the parents from west virginia, also coming with them were the GOURLEY family and the BOLTE family. after frederick died in 1901 most of his sons moved to council grove, there are also some brockelmans in salina whom are descendants. any help on brockelman family descendants or ancestors would be appreciated. my great grandmother was ruth SHAFER daughter of jacob SHAFER/SHAVER and minerva adaline ALLISON. the families of these 2 came from laurel, indiana with several other families namely BLOUT, KINDELSPARGER & NORTHERN. many shafers still live in the central kansas area. again any help with descendants & ancestors would be appreciated. several of these family members also brought elderly parents to lincoln county and they are buried there as well i have information on some of these families back to the 1700's, but on brockelman/wineburg i only go back to the point of immigration from germany. thanks in advance for ANY help, questions or comments scott brockelman