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From: "Kathleen Race" <>
Subject: FW: Friex surname
Date: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 08:28:42 -0600


Where do you go from here?

Ok, next time I'm at the center...I'll check the next couple of census,
intent to naturalize, other vital fische. Don't worry about the name
change...enumerators often wrote phoenetically. My family's name was
different on every census. Peter and Julian were listed as not writing or
reading english, so they prob. couldn't check the spelling.

The death <1907 fische listed a Louise Friex dod 27 Mar 1901, Kewaunee
County. I ran out of time and couldn't check the transcribed records for
Kewaunee county and frankly, Kewaunee's records are a nightmare to check.

After that, there is a large bio work on the Kewaunee county, at the time it
was in production, the people who wanted to be in it, paid to have their
bios printed. I'll check that at the Milwaukee Library. One of my
relatives had his bio in it.

If UWGB is checking data they have, they will prob. check the area
directories. One of the census, 1900 or 1910 has dates of emigration or
naturalization. Once the nat date is established, you can get the papers
from, I forget, refer you back to the Coffrin Library info pages....see
Legal records. I think Kewaunee county court houses hold all that data. I
may be wrong. What is lovely about genealogy is that guessing and intuition
often pay off and if they don't there is always another guess.

Did you say you had the emigration data? Maybe ask Georges.

Then I'd check the whowhere or the white pages on the internet for
Wisconsin. See how many descendents are living, get addresses and write
letters. Maybe you'll be lucky and one will have an email address.

Check the geonome pages you can jump there from Georges site, I believe, for
living surname distribution in 1996 in Belgium. After that you can pull
addresses from the infobel.

These are things that I have done and besides posting to the list, I have a
large quantity of other things I have in mind but I have no experience with
putting into play, so I don't want to advise you on say checking church
records because I have not done that yet.

Kathleen
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