This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GROSS, HOLMWOOD, BETZLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZGB.2ACE/323 Message Board Post: Hi there! I have been researching my GROSS Family for a few years now, and I am stuck on my Grandfathers Uncle Ernest. Ernest moved to Calumet area around 1895 with his second wife Josephine and his children from his first marriage - Carl, Laura, and Clara. I have found a lot of information in the past few months, but I have one small problem. THEY DISAPPEARED!! Ok, so not ALL of them. Carl's family is very well documented, and Josephine must have moved away after the divorce (between 1900 and 1910). But as for the others - it seems very mysterious. Ernest, a divorced male living alone, Carl and his small family and Laura and her small family are all listed on the 1910 census. Clara is missing, but could just be due to marriage - perhaps she moved away. Laura married Henry HOLMWOOD, and they lived next door to Carl and his wife Carrie BETZLER. They each had small children and lived very close to their father Ernest. 1920 census shows no Ernest, and no HOLMWOOD family. Further searching shows Henry in St Paul, alone, boarding at someones house. He is then found in Los Angeles in 1930 - remarried with a new family. Searches for death records at the Historical Society have been fruitless, as have other death record searches. So I have many questions, was there an epidemic between 1910 and 1920 - and if so, where could I go to see a list of those who perished as a result? Were alien abductions common then? (Really, I am willing to look anywhere!) And also, is it possible that their deaths were recorded incorrectly and therefore have not made it to the Minnesota Historical Society's index. If any of you fine people have idea's for me, please let me know! Thank you very much! Liz (Gross) Douglas

Dear Liz: Would you please email me personally at: [email protected]? My brother-in-law's mother was a Gross. I spoke with him and he's willing to help you with what, if anything he knows. There is yet another family member that has done genealogy, which may be of value to you. Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 2:08 PM Subject: [MNITASCA] 1910-1920 Alien Abductions?? This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: GROSS, HOLMWOOD, BETZLER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZGB.2ACE/323 Message Board Post: Hi there! I have been researching my GROSS Family for a few years now, and I am stuck on my Grandfathers Uncle Ernest. Ernest moved to Calumet area around 1895 with his second wife Josephine and his children from his first marriage - Carl, Laura, and Clara. I have found a lot of information in the past few months, but I have one small problem. THEY DISAPPEARED!! Ok, so not ALL of them. Carl's family is very well documented, and Josephine must have moved away after the divorce (between 1900 and 1910). But as for the others - it seems very mysterious. Ernest, a divorced male living alone, Carl and his small family and Laura and her small family are all listed on the 1910 census. Clara is missing, but could just be due to marriage - perhaps she moved away. Laura married Henry HOLMWOOD, and they lived next door to Carl and his wife Carrie BETZLER. They each had small children and lived very close to their father Ernest. 1920 census shows no Ernest, and no HOLMWOOD family. Further searching shows Henry in St Paul, alone, boarding at someones house. He is then found in Los Angeles in 1930 - remarried with a new family. Searches for death records at the Historical Society have been fruitless, as have other death record searches. So I have many questions, was there an epidemic between 1910 and 1920 - and if so, where could I go to see a list of those who perished as a result? Were alien abductions common then? (Really, I am willing to look anywhere!) And also, is it possible that their deaths were recorded incorrectly and therefore have not made it to the Minnesota Historical Society's index. If any of you fine people have idea's for me, please let me know! Thank you very much! Liz (Gross) Douglas ==== MNITASCA Mailing List ==== Please post your Itasca county queries often. We have new subscribers all the time! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237