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Subject: [POSEN-L] Re: Northern Illinois Imigration
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 19:46:45 -0600

Hi Ken,

Some of my RUSCH family were from Kreis Belgard. The first one, Herman
RUSCH, is said to have lived in the Chicago area for a few years before
moving to Nebraska. The succeeding immigrant family members went
straight to Nebraska.

Have you seen the names RUSCH, VOELZ, or LABS in any of those records?

I can tell you this about some of my other immigrant ancestors. One
brother came (alone? with other families?) to Wisconsin. He encouraged
his brother to come, and so a dozen families from the same general area
in Brandenburg came together and formed a new community. I'm sure that
over the next several years, a number of other families also came. The
fact that they knew someone in that new area would make immigrating less
frightening and more inviting. (BTW, 20 years later a large group from
that WI community moved to near Vandalia, Fayette Co., Illinois, and
created a new German community there.

Thanks!
Mona Houser

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:48:53 -0800 "Ken Jahn" <> writes:
>Hello,
>
>Does anyone on either of these lists know of or why certain groups of
>people from Pommerania and Posen ended up where they did in the U.S.?
>
>All of my relatives that I have researched ended up in McHenry
>County,
>Illinois. In looking through civil records for the village in Kreis
>Belgard, where they came from, I keep running across the same names
>that I
>have found in Illinois. Did these people send a "scout" over to find
>a
>good location for the rest to settle in that was similar to their area
>of
>Pommerania, or did someone circulate information throughout
>Pommerania
>extolling the sameness of this new area?
>
>Thanks in advance for any input.
>
>Ken
>

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