Hi A bit about migration patterns. It was not unusual for immigrants that came through the Great Lakes and ended up in Michigan, Wisconsin, or the rest of the plain states to move west to Washington State...particularly the Puget Sound area. The railroads made the trip easy. Nearly 50 % of the men registered in the WW1 book with Earl B Kamhout- were born in 6 Plains states. Michigan, Wisconsin, Nebraska, North and South Dakotas and Iowa. The flood plains west of Mt. Vernon in Skagit County grows world famous tulips. Linden, further north in Whatcom County holds tightly to it's Dutch heritage. I did check my Skagit County database and did not find more references to Kamhouts. However I do not have Anacortes Cemetery records. It is unusual for him to be discharged at Charleston SC. The usual practice was to bring the service men to the nearest military installation to his hometown. So he may have ties to SC... (what I don't know) Darilee Skagit County USGW http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit ---- Original Message ----- From: Kamhoot <kamhsbrg@casema.net> To: <WASKAGIT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:23 PM Subject: Kamhout from Skagit > Posted on: Skagit Co. Wa Queries > Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wa/Skagit?read=89 > > Surname: KAMHOOT, KAMHOUT > ------------------------- > > Dear Reader, > Found on this site by WW1 item next text item: > Kamhout, Earl B. > Boatswain's Mate, 2d Class, U.S. S. Marblehead, U. S. S. Fred W. Weller, > U. S. S. Somerset, U. S. S. Lancaster, U. S. S. Beaufort, armed guard detached > service; > born at Woodboro WI, 27 May 1899; son of Harry H. and Cora Kamhout, Anacortes > Wa; entered service from Anacortes WA, 24 Apr 1917; discharged at Charleston, > SC, 29 Jul 1920. > Who has more info about this Earl B. and his parents ?? > He must have been a lost relative from my family, possible he came to the > US in Michigan. If so he is related but i can't find any info of him. I > live in the Netherlands and so it's not easy to find the link with my tree. > Hopefully someone is able to help me. > Regards Kees Kamhoot. The Netherlands > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >