Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dataio.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!entropy!dataio!buls 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 Article-I.D.: dataio.772 Posted: Wed Aug 14 13:49:01 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 01:31:22 EDT Organization: Data I/O Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 37 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