Posted on: Dakota Co. Mn Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Mn/Dakota/10632 Surname: ------------------------- Hello: Just some comments on the Beissel's, etc. The Fickers left a large number of descendant in the area. The original progenitors of the Fickers are buried at New Trier, but there is not much left of the original stone, I had found pieces of it when I helped replot the cemetery a few years back. One of the daughters of the original Ficker was the wife of a Mathias Doffing, whose older son Conrad left tons of descendants in the Colwich, Kansas area. There were also a couple of male branches of the Ficker family and one descendant moved up north and changed the spelling to Fueger or Feuger. The Beissel family is very large and I understand that one or more persons are working on the family. At one time I hired a researcher in Germany to carry the family back a generation or so. The Wiederholt's appear to have came originally from Bickenroede near Heuthen in Thuringia. There were apparently other families that originated in the same area in Germany that settled in Dickeyville and the surrounding area and some like the Ginthers, Kaiser and other went to the Miesville area, possibly in groups. Families like the Stitz, Eckert, and Schaffer's also originated in the same area. When I compiled the data for the New Trier Origin Series I had planned on pinpointing origins so that future reseachers could locate the origins via LDS records or whatever. At this time I am constantly searching for origins of New Trier families and their descendants, but mostly focusing on Luxembourg at this point. For any further queries, please contact me and I will give it a stab, as long as it is in the New Trier-Hastings and surrounding areas. Bob