HELP is needed with Carl Nissen's gen. - I will post his information in hoping that someone out there may be of help to Carl in shagging more info re his ties. I will pass his information on just as he passed it on to me. I was able to send Carl pictures of his Dad when he grad. from good ol' Snohomish High School in 1915, but I won't be able to help on his Machias, Lake Stevens, Granite Falls genealogy, so I will post the information for those who could help him. Carl NISSEN is way down there in Florida but he has roots from up this way as he indicates in his words. Carroll in Snohomish, WA * * * 30 * * * ----- Original Message ----- From: can4618@aol.com To: w7iml@gte.net Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 7:54 AM Subject: Sno-Isle Genealogy Meeting Oh, woe is me! I didn't check back! My goof! Jens Carl Nissen died 08 September 1930; Christine Nissen died January (?) 1925, I think. They are buried in Machias Cemetery, however my correspondent said her records showed another cemetery nearby. I have been there. In 1957 my cousin, Jim Temples, showed me where; in 1979 I drove out of Lake Stevens with my Uncle Bill (William Nissen) and missed the cemetery, turned back to Lake Stevens, and there it was, up a hill on the right, and near the top were their graves. I made notes then but where in my clutter those notes are ??? I've got to get organized one of these days! My initial correspondence with Sno-Isle was e-mail; then hearing nothing I wrote a follow-up on 21 May 2003 to Carole Thul care of Sno-Isle Genealogical Society. If I remember correctly, she said she thought she could get obituaries, and death certificates. There was an obituary posted on Ancestry.com some time back for Jens Carl Nissen. Wish I could find it now. If my memory is correct it also mentioned Granite Falls. My research on the Jansen family in Iowa has progressed, I feel, to a positive conclusion. My contact's great grandfather was Peter Hartvig Jansen, wife Wilhelmine Unruh, suported by a family genealogy written by one of the Jansen family in 1969. She has a short chapter on the Unruhs. Most of her story is a match, except for Carl Unruh, where she mixes up names. Her story identifies "Minnie", my grandmother Nissen was Christine Unruh Nissen, and their younger sister, Josephine, married Thomas Philipsen (see Illustrated History, etc. page 854-855, which I got from Everett Public Library). With the help of Genforum: Minnesota Nos. 9370 & 9375; and Iowa Nos. 22937 & 22941 and Minnesota Death Index and Minnesota Historical Society providing Carl Unruh's death certificate (actually Auguat Carl Unruh) I have completed the Unruh story: Wilhelmine Jansen; Christine Nissen; Josephine Philipsen, and Carl Unruh. This last year has been intersting, but now that that is "known". I want ! to get back to finding more out about my grandparents Nissen. Whever you get a chance now, having missed last night's meeting, if you could find out "what ever" from Sno-Isle Genealogical Society, I would be thankful! If the information is available, great; if not, we live with disappointments; one step forward and two steps back, or is it two steps forward and one step back. I enjoy reading your stories on WASNOHOM. Best wishes, Carl Nissen in Florida; wondering if we'll catch a hurricane.