In a message dated 11/11/03 2:02:42 PM Central Standard Time, GDETTLEFF writes: > Hi, Everyone! > > I have made some recent serendipitous discoveries about my > "Illinois" relatives. > My DRENTEN folks started in Clinton County, IL or so I thought. > It seems that the family actually came from the Lingen area in North > Western Germany. They are included on the Emslander site and in Walter > Tenfelde's book about immigrants from this area as DRENTE but my > great-grandfather isn't listed. Plus, I had a different mother's name for > him from his marriage record in St. Dominic's in Breese, Clinton County, IL. > So I wasn't sure this was the correct family. While looking for someone > else's ancestor, I stumbled on a Drenten as a witness to a marriage in the > microfilmed records of the St. Louis Catholic church now called St. Joseph (Shrine > of). It seems that this Drente family started out in Missouri in the 1840s > and went to Illinois after 1865. While looking through these records > I recognized many Clinton County names. I wanted to share this information > and Dave Lossos has allowed my selected records, including Baptisms, Marriages > and Burials to be posted on his Genealogy in St. Louis web site. Please keep > a couple things in mind when you search through these records. > I translated the Latin but I spelled all or most of the surnames exactly the > way they appear in the records. This was a German Catholic parish and so > the Latin words for John and Henry I put in as Johann and Heinrich. Some names > I changed to the English and more recognizable forms such as Gesina for > Chesina. I also left all the umlauts in so you can see the way the names were > spelled originally. I also translated these records from copies of the > microfilmed pages and some names were rather difficult to decipher. So, in other > words, you must use a little imagination to find your people in some cases. > Dave's site and these church records can be found at: > <A HREF="http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/">http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com</A> > > The Emsland site, hosted by Barbara Salibi, is located at: > <A HREF="http://www.emslanders.com/">www.emslanders.com</A> > > Both of these sites are a wealth of information and both hosts welcome > new data. > May you be as lucky as I. Enjoy! > Gloria Dettleff >