I just finished re-reading Uncle Herbert's biography - or whatever you might call it - about growing up in South Dakota. I pick up more details each time I read it and get a better understanding & picture in my head of what it must have been like. I am able to get past all of his "good, moral, Christian, loving, never questioning anything commentary and get a good feel for the layout. I was also able to find a land map for the period he is writing about - after losing the farm in 1906 (the Pellar place) and moving to the homestead on Turgeon Hill.
I also posted Uncle August's biography (the first one, not the one in conjunction with Herbert's) to his page on ancestry. It's in a PDF file and I can email a copy if you are interested in it.
I'm making a trip to Wharton & El Campo to see Mary and dig around the local museum the weekend after the 4th. I'm looking forward to it - both to see Mary and to see what I can dig up. I'm taking Abby with me, poor thing. She'll either love it or be totally confused and bored, probably both. I tried to explain to her what a cemetery is, not sure she quite got it.
This is not to promote my blog. Feel free to delete this. here is my Heins, Brammer and where tons of Luetjens come from.
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Click on the bottom link at the top where it says List of surames. Then at the left you can select the one you want from the alphabet. It's just a stab in the dark. i just noticed I missed a response at Ancestry on Heins. So I thought I would come back to you here. Since your Brammer was Nebraska. However Washington, Illn, Iowa,Mn, and Kansas as well as Canada were some settling areas of the family Dagefoerde. Whom have traced their families and ours married theirs.
I'd give anything to know German, but I make do.