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From: buls@dataio.UUCP (Rick Buls)
Newsgroups: net.roots
Subject: Looking for my roots
Message-ID: <772@dataio.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 13:49:01 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 13:49:01 1985
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Ok,

I know there is not much traffic on net.root, is that because no one
is interested in their roots? I've been into looking, off and on, for
about five years. I am at the point of not knowing what to do next, so
why not try the net?  Since all the surnames I'm looking for
are so rare I'm sure their is a conection to anyone else with the
same surnames. So does anyone have any connection to the following
surnames?:

	Buls(my fathers name of course)(from Germany in 1883)
	Lobdell(my mothers maiden name)(Claude,George R,George(NY))
	Ells(my grandmothers maiden name)(John A., Arnold(NY))
	Hofstra(my other grandmother(grew up as a Clark)(Aaron)

	Emma Gorey(????)( this may have been my great grandmother, married
			John Ells in Minnesota in 1870s)

I have access to the Archives, the Seattle and UW Library, and The Mormon
Records, but I am having trouble getting further. I have marraige, death
and birth records, but as you know they get thin the further back you go.
I would really like to find fathers of George Lobdell (born 1799 in NY) and 
Arnold Ells(born 1810? in NY).  Also I need the maiden names of the wifes
of George R. Lobdell( Betsy Holden?), Arnold Ells(Ruth), and John Ells
(Emma Gorey??).  Please mail any information or suggestions to me
at
 	uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!buls.

PS I am also interested in doing research here for research into my family
roots. My needs are for research in Mankato(Blue Earth) and Redwood County
in Minnesota, in Northern New Jersey, and in New York State (Buffalo?).
-- 

				Rick Buls (Data I/O; Redmond, Wa)
				uw-beaver!entropy!dataio!buls