Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10678 Surname: HEINEN, Miller, Bennet, Kerst, Henkes ------------------------- I have John Heinen and Virginia Miller listed on my husbands family tree. John was born (according to his tombstone) 1896, died 1961, children Ronald, Mardell, Phylis, Fred and Diane. His parents were Joseph Heinen and Sarah Bennet. Joseph was a county commissioner.I have no information aboutn John and Virginia's family. Perhaps you could fill in the blanks??? I have charted the family from Nicholas Heinen and Magdalena Kerst who immigrated in 1855 from Prussia Thanks for responding. BARB RYAN, Anyone else of this family please respond also. Family charts are in the Dakota County Historical Society office.

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10676 Surname: Heinen ------------------------- My grandfather was John Heinen from Farmington, Minnesota in Dakota County. My grandmother was Virginia Miller. I'm not sure of his birth-date but I would guess between 1900 to 1905.

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10675 Surname: BROWN, EDWARDS, WALSH, AUDETTE, MONTBRIAND, PECHACEK, LOUBERT ------------------------- Where can I find information on the Dakota county poor farm in Rosemount (?). Where were the tenants of the poor farm buried? Are any of these records searchable on the internet?

Sorry to bother the list, but the Email address I have for Edwin Chapel no longer works. Does anyone know how to reach him? It's regarding the Vanderlick family, particularly Stella Lewis Vanderlick... Thank you, Sharon Krisko

I am looking for a marriage record for: Ferdinand Glander (sometimes listed as Frank) Louisa Neuman(n) Marriage was on 10/8/1876 (not sure if that is Oct or Aug). The minister was Rev George Taley. Possibly Methodist Episcopalian. I have been having difficulty tracking the marriage down. I know that they settled in Hastings prior to moving to SD for a while and then back again. Louisa (Louise) was from Wisconsin. I am having difficulty tracking her ancestry and the marriage record would really help. I am assuming they married somewhere near Hastings, but it could also be across the border in Wisconsin. Has anyone heard of Rev. George Taley?? I am uncertain of the spelling of his last name. My mom thought it was only 1 "L", but you never know. If I can track the minister down, I might be able to find the correct church. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much. Abigail __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10674 Surname: Robejcek ------------------------- My grandmother's sister Martha Studemann married John ROBEJCEK (Robejsek or some variation thereof). They lived at 646 Pleasant Avenue in ST. Paul (Dakota county). They had a family of three blond-haired daughters. One of the daughters was photographed in 1925 or 26 at a location in Mendota. Do these names mean anything to anyone? I would like to contact the descendants for genealogical purposes.

Looking for any information on the King Midas Mill in Hastings. Background info needed badly. Regards, ~Cherie Honl ::::::::::::::*`^i^ `*:::::::::::::: Life is more than breath, it's beauty! :::::::::::::::*`^i^`*:::::::::::::: ---------- HONL Congregated Genealogy Austria/Bohemia/Germany/Prussia http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thehonls/ Cherie's Tree currently contains 610 individuals, in 224 family groups Some surnames that are included are: ARZT, BENEDICT, EIRSCHELE, HONL, HOWSER, HUBERTY, JONAS, LAMEREAUX, MATTHEWS, SCHWARZ, SIMON, WEBER etc. (Multiple spellings apply) Honl Surname & Mailing Lists: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/h/honl.html ~~~~~~~*^i^*~~~~~~

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10673 Surname: OLRIKSEN, MADSEN ------------------------- Looking for information on Soren Olriksen and his wife, Nettie (nee Madsen) Olriksen. In 1885, they and their 10 children were living on Cherokee Ave in westside St. Paul. According to a daughter, they moved south of the city to a farm which I believe is located in Dakota County. Would like to find the exact location of the farm, and when they lived on the farm.

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10671 Surname: Mann, Swanson ------------------------- I am looking for Louella Mae Swanson, her maiden name is Mann, her parents names are Leo and his wife Iris. We have lost contact with her and my mother (Sue Grinstead) is very sick and really needs to talk with her, she is considered family. Please if you have any information on her you can contact me anytime. God Bless and Thank You Gina Grinstead

I visited the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul last week. They now have the Public Health Death Cards and Death Certificates on microfilm from 1900-1946. I was told that they will continue to add more years. The microfilm may be obtained via an inter-library loan. Judy in CA

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10669 Surname: TAYLOR, GALLAGHER, MURRAY, SMITH ------------------------- Looking for Taylors who came from Nova Scotia to Dakota County, then probably on to Hennepin County in 1800s. William continued on to Washington State, but Samuel Willis and John W seem to have stayed in Minnesota. Thanks for any help, Linda Kimura Link: FAMILY PAGES URL: <http://www.babiescantwait.com>

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10668 Surname: Schaacks ------------------------- Hi - Maybe I can help you out. I live in Dakota County, Minnesota and I have several Schaacks in my family history database. Max Beissel married in my Beissel line, but I have numerous Schaacks in my Becker/Weiland line. Let me know if I can help. Linda

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10666 Surname: Weiland, Feyen, Brummel ------------------------- Hi Maggie - I have several of these names in my Dakota County family records. There were triple Feyens born in the early 1900's. The Brummels & Feyens are in my Kasel line. On the Weilands, I have some information as they married into my Becker line. I hope to hear from you soon. Linda

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10665 Surname: Langer, Chanlupnicek ------------------------- Michael, I don't think we are talking about the same Frank Langer. In the 1920 census, Frank and his wife Katherine lived at 2235 So avers Avenue, Chicago Illinois. My Grandfather Ludvig Chalupnicek had a document date 18 sept 1922 from Cook County courthouse on Frank sponsoring him.

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10664 Surname: OSBORN ------------------------- Thomas Hillis Osborn, son of Samuel and Polly G. (Hillis) Osborn, b Oct 1844 at IN; d. by the 12 Jan. 1920 census; m. Sarah J/W. ___ ?by 1870 probably in Dakota Co. She was born in Maine.

Window opens into past; Ellis Island makes passenger manifests public on Web By Susan Sachs New York Times News Service Now, for the first time and online, Ellis Island brings you ... your ancestors. Beginning today, if all goes as planned, anyone with an Internet connection can search through passenger manifests from the ships that ferried 17 million immigrants into New York Harbor and the New World in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The database, extracted from microfilm of the original paper manifests, covers arrivals at Ellis Island from 1892 through 1924. Those were the peak years of immigration, when as many as 5,000 people a day shuffled through the inspection process. The information recorded on the manifests hints at their individual tales of grit, adventure and hope. To find records, the curious can go to www.ellisislandrecords.org Seen on a computer screen, the ship manifests are prosaic documents: page after page, column after column of names, ages and other dry particulars. Some were typed, the letters fat and slightly uneven. More are filled with the dense florid handwriting popular then and barely decipherable now. But the scraps of history contain an awesome power. Concentrated within them is the force of memory. And a trip through the records, either at home or at the Ellis Island museum, can be emotionally harrowing. Carol Curro and her husband, John Papandrea, took a preview spin through the computerized manifests last week, when the museum staff let a few visitors try out the system before its official opening. Curro had come with a quest: to find her favorite grandfather who had crossed the Atlantic several times from Calabria, Italy, before settling down in New York. "He used to talk about it all the time," she said. "I wish now I had listened more carefully." Papandrea was only along for the ride. Or so he said. But just listening to talk about ancestors brought to mind one of his own grandfathers. Maybe he would look. "It would be my mother's father," he explained. "His name was ... " And then he stopped. His eyes filled with tears. His wife looked alarmed. His two children looked embarrassed. "His name," Papandrea continued in a strong but shaky voice, "was Paolo Scarfone. He came from a small town called Scilla -- that's S-C-I-L-L-A. In Italy." The family sat at one of the large-screen computers in the family history center, in the Kissing Room, so-called because long ago bleary-eyed immigrants were reunited there with their American loved ones. After one hour, Curro hadn't found her grandfather, but Papandrea had found his. "Look, here it is," he crowed, pointing at the image of the ship's manifest on the screen, at a line where an officer of the ship Manilla, sailing out of Naples, had written "Paolo Scarfone," a single man, 22 years old. "And look, look," Papandrea said proudly, pointing again at the picture of the 100- year-old document as if it confirmed his own place in history. There, as last place of residence, the manifest showed "Scilla." Officials of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, which runs the museum and the family history project, expect that millions of people will want to use the Internet site. As a guide, they looked to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which put up its own genealogy Web site, www.familysearch.org, two years ago. It was so popular that, in the beginning, it crashed almost every day. The Mormon Church, which has put about 600 million records from all over the world on its site, also provided the labor for the Ellis Island project. About 12,000 volunteer members spent much of the past eight years extracting data from microfilm. They dealt with 22 million passenger records, including immigrants as well as business passengers and tourists, and faced enormous challenges. The 60-year-old microfilm was of varying quality and the original manifests, sold for paper pulp by the government decades ago, were not available for double-checking. People's names were spelled in oddly inconsistent ways. So were the names of towns and villages, in part because the ship personnel wrote them phonetically. The volunteers sometimes spent hours trying to decipher a single entry, said Richard E. Turley Jr., managing director of the Mormons' family and church history department. But they may open a window for countless Americans. "The challenge every American faces, unless you're a Native American, is tracing their ancestors across the ocean," Turley said. "This data helps span that difficult gap. At least you have a starting point, like the port they left from." Visitors to Ellis Island who want to use the family history center will need to reserve their time at the computers by calling the foundation at (212) 883- 1986. Reservations may also be made online at the Web site for the family immigration history center at www.ellisislandrecords.org Anyone fortunate enough to score a match will be able to see the name of the ship their relative sailed on, its departure and arrival dates, the name of the relative's contact in the United States, and the names of anyone who shared the journey. ~~~~~~~*^i^*~~~~~~ HONL Congregated Genealogy Austria/Bohemia/Germany/Prussia http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~thehonls/ Cherie's Tree currently contains 610 individuals, in 224 family groups ~~~~~~~*^i^*~~~~~~

Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10663 Surname: Amidon, Bacon, Crandall, Estabrooks, Harris, LeVene, Mattin, Wetherell ------------------------- I am searching for information regarding the spouses of my Wetherell/Witherell ancestors. The Wetherell (and other spellings) family moved to the Farmington area of Dakota County from Franklin Co./Clinton Co./St. Lawrence Co. New York between 1846-1860. Looking for information on: Louisa BACON, and brothers Abel and Jim (James?) from Clinton Co., NY. Louisa married George W. Wetherell. Adelbert HARRIS (married Florence E. Wetherell.) Thaddeus W. A. ESTABROOKS (married Sarah M. Wetherell.) Roger R. LEVENE (married Carrie I. Wetherell.) Martha AMIDON (married Trostrom/Trustum/Trustriar H. Wetherell.) Sarah A. MATTIN (married Russel Wetherell.) Minor CRANDALL (married Mary M. Wetherell.) Most, if not all, of these families ended up in northern Minnesota; the counties of Cass, Hubbard, Wadena, and/or Todd in the 1880's.

Jim, I believe that the Dakota County Historical Society has merged with the Dakota County Genealogical Society and they are both located at: 130 Third Avenue North South St. Paul, MN 55075 Tom James Pearson wrote: > > Can SKS give me the snail address of the above? Thank you. > > Jim Pearson > [email protected]

Can SKS give me the snail address of the above? Thank you. Jim Pearson [email protected]

Who knows where I can obtain records for Union Cemetary of Inver Grove Heights? (It's located next to Dakota County Airport.) I have several ancestors there. A couple are missing markers. What year did Dakota County start keeping birth and marriage records? [email protected] Sonja Aird, Almquist , Authier, Bouchard, Brown, Campbell, Doherty, Erno, Hofbauer, Hovland, LaPointe, LaRocque, McCollum, Mooers, Payer, Robertson, Ross, Schoolcraft, Shingledecker, Ullmann; Chiefs Wabasha, Mamongazida & Waubojeeg.