Anita and everyone, Thank you for helping me find the divorce announcement I was looking for. It is the missing puzzle piece in the story of Heinrich and Sophie Janicke. I knew they had married in 1894 or 1895, but that they had arrived in the US around 1878 with five children.. I had found the birth records in Germany in the Mormon microfilm records. And none of them said the kids were illegitimate, yet the late marriage was very confusing. It all makes sense now. And I really enjoyed reading my father's obit from the Soledad Bee, which I wrote myself a little over a year ago. I hadn't read it in quite a while, and the memories brought tears to my eyes. I wrote an obit for the Walnut Creek paper, but the Soledad obit was much, much more interesting to work on. And they didn't charge me a penny to print it. I made it as historically and culturally interesting as I could, though in my rereading I did notice quite a few grammar points that could have been improved if I had been paying more attention. As for the divorce of my great-great-grandparents. Some of you may be intersted to know that they divorced to make it easier to prove up on the homestead. I think Sophie was doing all the work anyway, so she figured it should be official. The very day after the homestead was approved they remarried. And a few weeks later Heinrich died. ( I just made a really long story short, but I don't want to bore you all.) Thanks again to all of you. Marybeth Michaels

I recognized your connection within the Obit. One thing I would like to mention to the members of every genealogical list : The ARCHIVES of these lists are invaluable to researchers who have come to a point in their research where these bits of information [obituaries, weddings, funerals, anniversaries, birthdays] containing family names & places. So when we find them, be sure to share them on the lists to be archived for others to find. Not just the old ones, but the everyday ones; to continue the history of our families. We tend to forget that we are part of the history in the making. Besides, I find them to be interesting reading~! mema PS remember to trim your email tails~!