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/289.1.1 Message Board Post: I was able to find Alvina's obituary. She was born on 12/27/1887 in rural Trent, South Dakota. Her parents' names were not mentioned. I'm not sure where I came up with Anders. I believe her mother's name was Ella. In the 1900 census I found Alvina listed as a servant with her brother Jens. By 1909 she was living in Iowa. She also had siblings named Harry, Emma, and Ina, and Arch. All were born in South Dakota in the Trent/Dell Rapids vicinity.