This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mainzer, Woodford, Foster, Burnham, Cormier Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HGB.2ACE/121 Message Board Post: I am a direct descendent of Peter O. Mainzer born in Brown county to John and Dorothea Mainzer in 1870. Peter farmed for a time in Brown county, then went to Pince county, MN. He married there, Laura M. Woodford. They had one daughter in Duluth in 1910, Joanna Lydia Mainzer, my grandmother. Peter moved the family to Idaho, where he began silver mining. About 1916(?) Peter abandoned his family, after a second daughter was born, in Deary, Idaho. Laura divorced him, and moved to Waterville, Washington. Peter died in 1935 in Sandpoint, Idaho. I am hoping to find more family history, and stories on the Mainzers, since we did not have the opportunity to know from oral tradition. Would appreciate any replies. Thank you, Elizabeth Hoppe