This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HINES/KILITSCHKO Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DIB.2ACE/369.1 Message Board Post: The name Trebon, CZ, caught my eye. As I have seen the name somewhere before. Do your Bohemian ancestors have any connection to those who settled in New Ulm? Well, I just opened up my notebook to see how to spell my husband's ancestor's name and there is the envelope which I saved from"Trebon". (Where I too hired a researcher.) I have a Franz Kitlitschko, born on April 25, 1849. He told his grandchildren he was born in "Berlin", but the 1880 cenus states that both he and his parents were from Bohemia. (1885 MN census lists his place of birth as "Ostria".) He was "single" when he homestead, and on the June 1880 census, when he lived with Michael Huber of "Tyrol" (Bohemia?) here in Ottertail County. Franz was later joined at Bluffton, Minnesota by Franciska K. Peltz, who was born on September 16, 1848, "near Vienna". With her was Ed, born Mar. 1880, who was listed as his son. (It appears that she carried the child for about six years after Franz left Bohemia before she delivered :o) As Franz was Naturalized in Brown County, MN on May 16, 1874! Franciska's sisters married Mathias Fast and Jacob Motza (all Bohemian families) and lived at New Ulm. MaryLu