This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZGB.2ACE/398 Message Board Post: hi my name is jackie i live in michigan. my fathers family is from the iron range in minnesota my fathers family has been gone for many years. I really don't know much about them. I know my grandfathers name was sandford niemi. he was killed in a mining accident anywhere between 1927-1930. my father was 2 (so he remembered) my father was born in 1927 His name was vernon Arnold niemi. His mother was Hilda. She remarried, and i believe her new last name was hubbard. i am not sure on this information. they had a large famly 8 children. My father said that his siser Ester passed at the age of 16(?) from scarlett fever. I would like to know if anyone knows anything. also where i could learn more. i feel like a part of me is missing without this information. please email with anything. any little bit to me is HUGE information. thank you very much.