This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Krause, Steen, Allen, Smith, Clark Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACE/2200.1 Message Board Post: Submitted for Mr. Kim McIsaac Duluth, MN <Kmcisaac9@aol.com+++> Thanks so much for all the information. Regarding KRAUSE, my ancestor Alfred G. b.16 Jan 1885 in Watertown, Jefferson Co, WI. According to his death certificate here in Duluth and father listed as Fredrick A. Krause and mother as Anetta Stene. I believe Fredrick=August (his middle name?) and Anetta's last name is STEEN. Her birthplace is listed as Norway. I found an unidentified article using google for Steen and it mentioned a Peter Steen and wife Henrietta with a daughter Annette who married a August Krause on 16 Sep 1865 in Mauston (Juneau Co, WI) who was a blacksmith from New Lisbon and parents were August Fred Krause and Henrietta. There was a reference to other Steens who lived in the Necedah and Lindina areas. I am currently searching Jefferson Co. censuses for Krause and trying to find a match for August and/or Fredrick etc. I'm hoping the obits I requested for Krause will give me some more clues. Will keep my fingers crossed. Regarding ALLEN, I hope the obits help here also. Mr. Allen died in Jan 1893 according to the obit index and this fits the period between the last Allen child birth (1891) and his widow's remarriage to Sovey (1895). He may be from one of the Stockton or Amherst area (Portage Co, WI) Allen families but no Anthony in the 1880 Census. Regarding SMITH, the Oswin Smith family appears in the 1870 Census in Buena Vista (Portage Co, WI) and the 1880 also. The 1850 Census gave me the NJ connection along with the LDS IGI. I can't locate them in the 1860 US Census and perhaps that's when they went to South America for a while. Maybe the children were adopted orpahans from Ecuador or Brazil? Have not found the marriage for Oswin Smith and Sarah Elizabeth Clark. I wonder what brought them to Wisconsin in the first place? This genealogy stuff never runs out of questions!!! I do enjoy the hunt, though. Thanks again for all your great assistance. Mr. Kim McIsaac Duluth, MN <Kmcisaac9@aol.com+++>