This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/4125.1.1.1 Message Board Post: People wrote home to Germany and there were Germans who wrote articles in the papers to get others to leave Germany. Sometimes they weren't terribly honest about the bad things just about the good things. The Indians were mostly gone from the midwest by the 1830's. I don't know about Canada. Look on the internet for diaries from that era.