Since Platte county is near enough and since I'm just getting started and have had little success so far in tracking Christensen roots, here is a copy of my query to the Saunder County Gen-Web site: CHRISTENSEN. Mads - is, I believe, my father's father's name. They lived near Ceresco, where my father Louis was born in 1904. He had a brother named Chris and a sister named Volborg (later Hanson). There were other siblings, including a brother that drowned. Louis was the youngest. Chris was in Saunders county in the '70s and Volborg was in Lincoln until then also. I was born in Norfolk, NE in 1947 and my mother was Yvonne Peterson from Gretna, NE. My parents met at Linoma Beach! Since my parents were in their late 30s/early 40s when they first had children (and they both were youngest siblings), our family ties were stretched quite a bit and they were dead before my sister and I started taking an interest. The only ties I know of are first cousins, a Mrs. Nelson living in Lincoln and her sister Mrs. Roblyer living in Oregon, and they are apparently not tracking geneology. Some information suggests that grandparents may have been born in Ruskin area. My dad Louis was a John Deere tractor dealer in Iowa during the '30s. He died doing same in Lamar, CO. Dale, does any of this compute? Louis Kent Christensen Albuquerque, NM