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From: "C. Robert Appledorn" <>
Subject: Re: [OSTF] Peter Peters Eckhoff & Eda Wienenga/Wientjes Eckhoff
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 08:57:58 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: 6667


Mittjus ... Wientjes. Looks close to me.

Keep in mind one thing when using the Census. It is a Government
operation.

Remember the lithium hydroxide canisters in Apollo 13? One set
was round and the other square? Government operation.

robert


Jill Morelli <> wrote:
Moin! Moin!



For those of you who are tracing the Peter Peters Eckhoff family of Illinois
and Iowa..I have made a connection that is not readily apparent to, well,
anyone, including me.



Eda/Ida declared that she had immigrated in 1869 and married in 1871. And,
yet I could not find her in the 1870 census. I figured she actually
immigrated later, just missed the enumeration. I was wrong. Now maybe you
have figured this out and I am sharing information that is obvious to
everyone but me.



I found her living with her sister, Grietje and brother-in-law, Hendrik Bode
and the name was so screwed up I didnt put it together until just recently.
She was enumerated twice (as was the family) in Ridott Township, Stephenson
Co., IL. Notice in entry no. 1 below, Eda Mittjus. I believe this is the
enumerators best guess of the word Wientjes. In Entry #2, just a couple
of pages away, we see Eda Mennega, a modification of the surname Wienenga,
a name they also used. The age is consistent.



Entry #1:

The family was enumerated as:

Bode, Henry, age 26

Thantje, age 21

Annie, age 3/12

Mittjus, Eda, age 18

Shauf, Corneilus, age 11

Bode, George, age 34

George is insane.

Entry #2:

The family was enumerated as:

Bode, Henry, age 25

Grietje, age 20

Ann, 9/12

Shauf, Cornielius, age 11

Mennega, Eda, age 17



I dont know if this will help anyone but thought I would put it out there.




Jill




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