Here is a bit more information for folks not familiar with Gonner and the 1987 re-edition by Jean Ensch, Jean-Claude Muller, and RObert Owen. Volume I of the 1987 re-edition translates the 1889 Gonner book, <Luxembourgers in the New World> from German into English. Volume II contains an index to the <Luxemburg Gazette> newspaper, published in Dubuque, Iowa, by Nicholas Gonner. A number of libraries (e.g., State Historical Society of Iowa, St. Thomas University Library's Luxembourgiana Collection, Loras Collage Library in Dubuque) now have the <Luxemburger Gazette> (LG) on microfilm; if you are searching for particular surnames and have found any listings in Ensch's Volume 2 index, you can check specific microfilms for appearances of these names in issues of the LG, which is in 19th century German script. As Ellen has noteod (below), you might be able to borrow the 1987 re-edition of Gonner through interlibrary loan. You may be able to order the two-volume set by checking Fausto Gardini'a web site, "Luxembourg on My Mind." I believe he has information there. Luxembourg on My Mind: http://members.aol.com/VailCorp/lux.html Another excellent web site is Lisa Oberg's Genelux: Genelux: http://www.eskimo.com/~lisanne/index.html ----------------------------------- On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 20:40:16 -0800 Ellen & John White <ewhite@siouxvalley.net> wrote: > Hi Patt and Joey and all > > My husband also had relatives who have the towns St. Cloud, MN and > North Washington, Iowa in there history after arrival in America from > the Bitburg area. KOLBERT/KOLBET was the surname. > > I would believe you could obtain the book, Luxembourgers in the New > World, through interlibrary loan, (course I know I couldn't from my > VERY small public library), when we lived in Iowa, our local library > had one volume, I never knew there was more than one volume. > Ellen White ewhite@siouxvalley.net ---------------------- Suzanne Bunkers