These are the names I'm researching in MN (my maternal side): Fredrick Adam SOMER/SOMMERS - Steinhausen, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany > Joliet, Illinois > Northfield, MN Christian SCHULT - Wismar, Mecklenberg-Schwerin, Germany > Rice Co., MN 3 daughters who married SOMMERS, Jacob GLOR (Switzerland > Rice Co., MN), Joseph EVERET/EVERT (Germany > Rice and Renville Co, MN) Phillip MUELLER/MILLER - Dorn Durkheim, Hessen, Germany > Joliet, Illinois > Northfield, MN Ludwig BISCHMANN/BISHMAN (wife Christina Elizabeth Groh Sclieck) - Walderwersheimane, Kreiss Mainz (sp?Gropfass?), Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany > Will Co., Illinois > some descendants went to Waseca and Blue Earth Counties in MN Henry BUKER - Hannover, Prussia? > Clayton Co., Iowa > Waseca Co., MN (mother's name was Gertruth C.A. Gotman) Ernst MENKE - Germany > Clayton Co., Iowa > some descendants went to Waseca Co., MN GERDES - Germany > Clayton Co., IA > Waseca Co., MN > Roberts Co., SD Hemming Christian ANDREASSEN/ANDERSON - Ringsted, Sorø, Denmark, Waseca Co., MN > Montana > Missouri Additional research names for Denmark are Tønding, Fennerup, Lauritzen, Jensen, Jensdatter, Rasmussen, Hansdatter, Hemingsen Carl & Gotfried RUDOLPH - Aenstettin, Pomerania, Prussia > Waseca Co., MN Dorthea MALONE - looks Irish, but I have her born in Germany on March 23, 1816 and died in Waseca Co., MN on March 28, 1900 Gotlieb KRASSIN (wife Anna Augusta Sommers and mother Elizabeth GATZKE) - Radwonke, Kolmar Kreis, Posen, Prussia > somewhere in WI briefly > Waseca Co., MN Kathy Hines [email protected]