This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/218 Message Board Post: I'm looking for directions to St. Joseph Catholic cemetery in Wellington Township (Humboldt). From the hand drawn map that I have from the Sioux Falls Genealogy Society, it appears to be off of Rte. 19. If any one has directions (using street names or Rte. numbers), please e-mail me at [email protected] I'm from CT and I'm taking a trip out there. I don't know the area and need to use a street map to find it. Thank you Glenn Palmer

From the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha Co., SD Dated Friday, December 5, 1958 Mrs. H. M. Hoyt Dies at Age 74 A former Mitchell resident, Mrs. Harvey M. (Susie) Hoyt, 74, died at a local hospital Thursday evening after a week�s illness. She had resided at a nursing home since moving to Sioux Falls in September. Born June 10, 1884, at Milbank, where she was graduated from high school, she attended normal school at Ortonville, Minn. She taught rural school in the Milbank area for five years. Married June 20, 1906, at Milbank, the couple moved to Faith in 1910 and returned to Milbank two years later. In 1921 Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt moved to Grand Island, Neb., where they resided until moving to Milbank in 1931. They moved to Mitchell in 1943. A member of the Methodist Church, Mrs. Hoyt was preceded in death by her husband in 1955. Survivors include six daughters: Mrs. Ethel Strain, Mitchell: Mrs. Art Henninger, Cozad, Neb.; Mrs. Jess Fleshman, Boise, Idaho: Mrs. Hulsey Sappingfield, South Sioux City, Neb.; Mrs. Axel Miller, Sioux Falls, and Edith Hoyt, Mitchell; five sons, Lynn, Cozad; Frank, Fairfield, Neb.; Don, Great Falls Mont.; Harold, Helena. Mont., and Jack, Little Rock, Ark.; two sisters, Mrs. Hazel Wright, Seaside, Ore. and Mrs. Margaret Roan, Bozeman, Mont., and 31 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren. Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at the Miller Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. J. Wendell Walton officiating. Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m. at the Mitchell Graceland Cemetery. ~Volunteer posting. I am related to One lineage of the Hoyt family, but I just don't know (yet) if this is part of that family. I will be doing more follow-up on this when time allow........... ~Claire --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/217 Message Board Post: Looking for directions to this cemetery. I have a hand drawn map, but need more precise directions. I'll be coming from Sioux Falls on I90. It looks like I take exit 387, then turn left (south) on Rt. 151 (aka 463rd Ave.) After that I have no clue where to go. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Glenn Palmer [email protected]

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/0gB.2ACI/91.1.1 Message Board Post: I have taken a bunch of headstone pictures from the Pioneer Cemetery in Sverdrup Township, Minnehaha County, SD. There are Floren's buried there. Here is the link to them: http://www.brad-jones.com/webpages/Assorted/pioneer_cemetery_pictures.htm There are of multiple families from the Nord-Trondelag area. Here are pictures of the John Thompson Homestead, who comes from Meraker, Norway. http://www.brad-jones.com/webpages/Genealogy/Thompson homestead.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thompson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0gB.2ACI/216 Message Board Post: I have taken a bunch of headstone pictures from the Pioneer Cemetery in Sverdrup Township, Minnehaha County, SD. Here is the link to them: http://www.brad-jones.com/webpages/Assorted/pioneer_cemetery_pictures.htm There are of multiple families from the Nord-Trondelag area. Here are pictures of the John Thompson Homestead, who comes from Meraker, Norway. http://www.brad-jones.com/webpages/Genealogy/Thompson homestead.htm

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/215.1 Message Board Post: You can check with the library in Del Rapids at 605-428-3280 to see if they have copies of the local paper. I am not sure if they have copies. I do know they have microfilm copies at the SD State Historical Society at 900 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501-2217. Phone 605 773-3458. It would cost you approximately $10.00 for a single search. I could look in the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, sometimes there were some mention of a death in the surrounding areas. The Sioux Valley Genealogical Society has a book of cemetery records for the surrounding area in Minnehaha County which is where Dell Rapids is located. Also you can check Dell Rapids' web site to get cemetery records at www.dellrapids.org to see what you can find. Donna at [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/210.3 Message Board Post: Although I would like to learn more about my mother's side of the family and go with John Thompson, I would have to go with my 9th Great Grandfather, Daniel Jones, Sr. on my father's side. I am so stuck on who his parents were that going back to have dinner with him would be worth it to find out who his parents and grandparents were.

Hello Mike, You may not be able to find a newspaper obit for the deceased you seek, because not much was saved from early news publications. I have located the following which may or may not be of help to you. Dell Rapids had the following newspapers: Dell Rapids Times Historical Info: Merged with The Dell Rapids Tribune, to form Dell Rapids Times-Tribune. Issues published 7/2-7/5/1895 published as The Dell Rapids Daily Times. Missing Issue List: Any issues published before 1/1/1886. 1892: 12/30. 1893-1899. 1900:1/5, 3/16. 1904: 1/1-4/8. Dell Rapids Tribune Historical Info: Merged with Dell Rapids Times, to form Dell Rapids Times-Tribune. Missing Issue List: All issues published before 11/5/1892 and after 9/26/1896. Begin End Roll # 11/05/1892 09/26/1896 439 Dell Rapids Times-Tribune Historical Info: Formed by the union of The Dell Rapids Tribune, and Dell Rapids Times. Continued by The Dell Rapids Tribune (1920). Their issues ran from 1908 to 1920 Dell Rapids Tribune (1920) Historical Info: Continues Dell Rapids Times-Tribune. Missing Issue List: 1981: 4/22-12/30. Baltic, which isn't far from Dell Rapids, also had a newspaper named Minnehaha, but it was rather short lived and very few issues have ever been recovered. I believe it may have been printed in Dell Rapids, then distributed in Baltic. Minnehaha Missing Issue List: Any issues published before 10/11/1907. Any issues published after 04/17/1908. All Sioux Falls newspapers history and publications can be found at the following site: http://www.sdhistory.org/arc/newspaper/default.asp?EID=1&RID=1 If by chance, the deceased had friends or relatives in Sioux Falls, they may have had an obit put in the local paper. Even though Dell Rapids is roughly 30 miles north of Sioux Falls, it's highly possible that the news of the death never traveled that distance back in 1905. The first of my ancestors came to the Renner & Dell Rapids areas in 1866 & 1867. My great great uncle Jonas (went by John) Nelson was the very first to file for a homestead in the Mapleton Township in 1866. He, his family and his best friend John Thompson and wife came to this area in 1866 from Goodhue County, Minnesota. If the deceased you seek was Norwegian, you may also want to contact the following person: <A HREF="mailto:[email protected]">Mari Platt</A> "Bygdeboker for Meråker" and a new book just out about the immigrants from Folldal to the United States, "Utvandrerhistorie for Folldal" by Vidar Støen. I also have "Ætteosge for Gudbrandsdalen," 1953. Some local South Dakota County books: Pennington County, Minnehaha County, Northern Custer County, the reconstructed 1890 census for Pennington County, Behrens Mortuary Records in Pennington County, cemetery records for Minnehaha County, and I have access to South Dakota census tapes. There are other county books in our local and university libraries as well. I even do cemeteries. Sincerely, Donald Nelson

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/0gB.2ACI/215 Message Board Post: Hello- I would like to know what would be the best paper to look in for an obit of someone who died in Dell Rapids SD in about 1905. And could anyone recommend a paid researcher in that area. Thanks, Mike

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Johnson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0gB.2ACI/214 Message Board Post: I'm looking for Matthew Johnson, born sometime around 1959. Would have been in the Sioux Falls area around 1980. Father's name was Rick Johnson, and sister was Dondi Johnson. From the info I have, he worked construction in the summers, and at Great Bear in the winters. His sister, Dondi, worked at Citibank. Any info available would be greatly appreciated. Please email me directly at [email protected] Thank you

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/0gB.2ACI/207.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: She was at the Diamond Care Center, 901 Main Ave. Bridewater, SD McCook 57319. Usual residence 118 N Phillips Ave. Sioux Falls, SD Birthplace Jasper, MN Place of Marriage St Paul, MN Preceded in death by husband and son Daniel which I know nothing about. It states she had a brother Lester Nelson Montevideo, MN but I can find nothing about him. I would like to be certain I have the right DOD and what his wife's name was. Elva is buried at the Jasper Cemetary where her parents are buried. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/207.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You say you have the death record for Elva? Where was she when she passed away? Did she live in Sioux Falls? Did her parents live in Sioux Falls?, the surrounding area? In Jasper Minnesoata? Do you feel there should have been an obituary in the Sioux Falls paper even though she did not die in Minnehaha County? Was there an obituary in the local newspaper where she passed away?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nelsons Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0gB.2ACI/207.1.1 Message Board Post: Thanks for your help. I have the death record but thought that maybe an obit might tell me something about her brother Lester Nelson who was 11/2 yeard old on 1905 census. I think he might have died 31 Oct. 1987(I am not sure this is the correct date). There are so many Nelsons. Thanks for your help.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/213.1 Message Board Post: I have found some information on your Peter Iverson family. If you would contact me at [email protected] I would be most happy to relay it on to you. Donna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/207.1 Message Board Post: I have looked for an obituary for Elva but did not find one. I searched the death records at the Minnehaha County Courthouse and she did not die here in Minnehaha County. I found Mustephe Burgil's death information and an obituary for him. He was buried in Jasper Minnesota which is a few miles away and in a different state. Mustephe died August 25, 1962. He was 72 years 10 months 3 days old. Retired Restauranteur. Wife Elva Nelson Burgil, he was born in Lebanon, citizen of USA, father Mohammed Burgil, mother unknown. He died of acute cornonary thrombosis. You could check with the Rock County Recorder at 204 E Brown St, Luvern Minnesota 56156 to see if they might have a death record for Elva there. Good Luck

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/208.1 Message Board Post: I have found the obituaries that you were looking for Martha Feenstra and her husband Walter Wrage. From the Saturday July 13, 1996 issue of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, page 3B Col 4. Martha Wrage: Colton - Martha Wrage, 88, formerly of the Parker and Hartford area, died Friday, July 12, 1996, at the Odd Fellows Nursing Home in Dell Rapids. Martha Feenstra was born Oct 8, 1907, in Friesland, the Netherlands. She moved to the United States in 1923 and grew up in the Parker and Hartford area. She became a U.S. citizen in 1940. She married Walter J. Wrage on Dec 2 1926, in Sioux Falls. They lived in the Parker and Hartford area until 1938, when they moved to the Colton-Lyons area. They farmed there until 1971, when they moved into Colton. Her husband died Jan 9, 1977. She was a member of United Methodist Church. Survivors include three sons: James of Colton; Donald of Dell Rapids; and Kenneth of Running Springs, Calif.; one daughter, Alice Krueger of Sioux Falls; 15 grand-children; 20 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; and one brother, Ids of the Netherlands. Services begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday at United Methodist Church in Colton, with burial in the Colton Cemetery. Visitation begins at 4 p.M. Sunday at Minnehaha Funeral Home in Colton, with the family present 4 to 5. From the Minnehaha County Courthouse, in the death records in Book 130 Page 960975, I found that Martha's father's name was Faye Feenstra and mother was Alice. She died of Pnuemonia and Pulmonary Empolus Taken from the January 11, 1977 issue of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader. Walter J. Wrage: Colton, SD - Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the United Methodist Church for Walter J. Wrage, 80, who died Sunday at a Sioux Falls Hospital. A prayer service will be held Tuesday at 7:30 pm at the Minnehaha Funeral Home, Baltic. Mr Wrage was born July 7, 1896, in Turner County, South Dakota. He married Martha Feenstra Dec. 2 1926. They farmed in the Lyons and Colton area, retiring and moving to Colton in 1973. Survivors include his widow; one daughter, Mrs Alice Burke, Sioux Falls; three sons, James, Colton; Donald, Dell Rapids; and Kenneth, Skyforest, Calif.; five brothers, August, Moorhead, MN; Fritz, Hull, Iowa; Roy, Viborg; Henry and Jennings, both of Parker; and three sisters, Mrs Etta Gors, Viborg; Mrs May Muller, Montrose, and Mrs Elsie Fetzner, Davis. From the death records at the Minnehaha County Courthouse in Book 68 Page 770070, I found his father's name was Julius Wrage and Mother name was Cecelia Gosch. He died of a CVA -36 hours, generalized arteriosclersis for years You may obtain a certified copy of the death certificate from the Minnehaha County Courthouse at 415 N Dakota Ave, Sioux Falls, SD 57104 for $10.00 each.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/209.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I believe you have your message posted on the wrong board. This is South Dakota. Looks like your family was in North Dakota.

Hello, everyone I was wondering if someone out there would be able to point me in the right direction for information about my grandfather. I have had a lot of luck tracing his adopted family, but very little with his birth ancestry. His birth name is Rudolph THORSON, born September 5, 1903. He was surrendered to the Minnehaha court on Sept. 21, 1904. All I know about his birth parents is that they were both Norwegian and the mother was living at the time he was surrendered to the court. There is a story that she worked at the South Dakota Children's Home in Sioux Falls until she died. I understand that South Dakota has a 100-year privacy law pertaining to court records. How do I go about asking for the court records when the 100 years are up and is there any other tip anyone could give me. I haven't had luck getting his birth record because I don't know his mother's maiden name. Thank you in advance to anyone who may be able to give a few tips. Kim McGuigan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/10.1.2 Message Board Post: Hello Do you have actual dates on Ole & Julia and birth place on Julia. or their marriage date & place? I am working on this line for my children who's great grandmother was Josephine Haugse. Thank you for any help you can give.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wendt Classification: Census Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/0gB.2ACI/188.5 Message Board Post: Wendt, Ruth H 22 1897 South Dakota White Humboldt, Minnehaha, South Dakota Wendt, Charles F 44 1875 Minnesota White Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota Wendt, Carl D 43 1876 Wisconsin White Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota