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From: Amy Black <>
Subject: Re: FOSTERs on the other side of the Pond
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 14:40:20 -0800

Diann Olsen wrote:
>
> Hi Tom (and other Foster researchers),
>
> My ancestor, George Foster, also came from Germany. I'm still trying to
> figure out when, and from where, though. What I have on him at the moment,
> is very little. On the 1900 census, I have found his son, John O. Foster.
> That census indicates that John's father was born in Germany, and his mother
> born in PA. John Foster was born 21 January 1868 in Fulton Co, PA, which
> places George and his wife, Elizabeth Blackhart there at that time.
>
> Diann Olsen
> Athens, Greece
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Kennedy <>
> To: J.R. Foster <>; <>
> Cc: Foster list <>
> Date: Wednesday, October 01, 1997 4:22 PM
> Subject: Re: FOSTERs on the other side of the Pond
>
> My ancestor, Joseph Foster (b1822,d1913), was born in Linksburg on the
> Rhine (Germany?), came to the US in 1852 and settled briefly at St. Mary's,
> Elk County, PA. In 1866, he settled in Illinois.
>
> Over the past two months, I have not seen any Fosters coming from Germany.
> They all seem to have come from England and Ireland. Any Fosters from
> Germany?

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