Many thanks for the information. The obit is now on
the web site. I am
leaving for Alaska on Thursday and will return to
Minnesota in early
October and will spend more time on this.
Hi, James,
I am able to offer you some information. Attached
is
H.W. Moeller's obit from the Everly paper.
Unfortunately the page I have does not have the
page
number nor the date of the paper, and I realized
that
they were missing when I was no longer in Iowa. I
could have checked last summer but forgot that I
needed to. I do have the name of the newspaper; I
just don't have it available at the moment.
Remind me
to give it to you. Anyway, it answers your
question
about their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Dyhrkopp
mentioned at the end were my paternal
grandparents.
Chris was Theodore's brother. Both were sons of
August.
It says that H.W. emigrated in 1863, but in the
census
it says 1864 or 1865. It also says that he was
born
in Besdorf, SH. If he is related to me, he may
have
grown up in Besdorf, but he was born in the
Malente/Sielbeck area (near Eutin). He likely was
Mathias Hinrich Wilhelm Möller, son of Nicolaus
Hinrich Möller and Sophia Christina Åsbar/Osbar
Dürkopp (my great-great grandmother). H.W. was
baptised July 23, 1843. There is no record of the
family in that area after 1845.
The birthdays in the Malente church book match for
H.W. and his brother H. Rudolph who lived in
Benton
County, IA, when my D relatives did, and lived in
the
same area of Clay County as my D relatives. Also,
my
great-grandfather remarried in Iowa in 1876, and
Rudolph Moeller was his witness. (It is clear in
the
Everly history book that H.W. and H. Rudolph were
brothers.) Also, European records show that they
went
to the U.S. (http://www.rootdigger.de/) I've
corresponded with the man who has the website and
may
pay him a little to give me more. He has told me
that
their father Nicolaus Hinrich Moeller died in Nov.
1876.
I have not found H.W.'s marriage in the Illinois
records. Maybe they married across the river in
Iowa.
That would not be unusual. Their oldest child
was
born in IL per the census.
I have not been able to get any information from
Connie and Cliff even though I know their mother
had
information because she provided some for the
history
book. I may not have asked for photos so
hopefully
they will have those. I don't know what happened
to
their old family papers. Maybe you'll be more
successful than I.
Yes, I do have all the information that Einar has
(which my parents gave him). I went to his place
in
IL in 2004 and took photos of everything.
~~Donna
--- James M Fulford jfulford@pconline.com wrote:
Donna,
Any genealogical information I have is on the
web
site except for some
photos. I have spent most of my time on the
Goettsch
side of the family
and am just getting back to the Moellers. In
fact I
just postponed a
trip to Spencer to see Clifford and Connie, as
Connie is out of town for
a few weeks. I spent a week on Clifford's farm
as a
kid and it was a
memorable experience. I'am hoping they will have
a
good supply of old
photos I can scan and place on the web site. I
think
photos make
genealogy fun.
I remember visiting Mary Moeller Dehrkoop with
my
mother Helen Goettsch
Fulford and grandmother Emma Moeller Goettsch in
Everly as a child.
Theodore was gone by then.
I have been trying to find immigration records
for
the Mollers and have
not had any success. Did Anna Nissen and William
H
Moller come to this
country as a couple or did they meet here. I
don't
know and have so far
been unable to find any information on this.
Perhaps
you know. Any help
would be welcome. I am sorry I can't give you
the
information here that
you are looking for.
I am not familiar with Dreamweaver, but
www.curbscape.com uses free
software (PhpGedView) available to anyone. It
seems
to accomplish what I
want most of the time. It is made for sharing
updating responsibilities
with others, but am not sharing yet.
Most Internet Service Providers can support the
PhpGedView software.
Search the net for it and you can see that it is
becoming popular. I am
working with my ISP to upgrade to the new and
improved version of the
software, but am leaving town soon, for about 6
weeks, so it will be
delayed.
All of this is relatively new to me as I
started
less that one year
ago. You have a lot more experience with
genealogy.
What I have learned
is that it is addicting and time consuming and I
can't seem to quit.
In regard to getting clean copies of census
pages,
I use ancestry.com.
I always expand them to 150% for good viewing.
Then
click on save to get
the maximum resolution on the copy saved. If you
use
the 50% setting,
which is the default, you will get a lower
resolution copy saved on your
computer, and it will be hard to read. I am
unsure
what you get if you
use the 100% setting.
If you would like to experiment with the
PhpGedView
software, I can
give you a username and password that would
allow
you to update the
www.curbscape.com website. I am sure you cannot
hurt
anything. Even if
you did, I keep daily backups and it can easily
be
restored. If you find
a Moller Dyhrkoop connection I would let you use
the
website as if it
were your own. Also I will point out that
anything
on the website can
be downloaded and saved on a computer by
anybody.
Feel free to take what
you want.
If you use Dreamweaver you must have a web
site. Is
it something I can
look at?
Clifford suggested that you talk to a distant
cousin, Einar Dyhrkopp in
Illinois, as he has done some family research.
You
may have already done
this, as Clifford says you know him.
Lets keep in touch.
James M Fulford
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 05:18 -0700, Donna
Dyhrkopp
Clarke wrote:
Hi, James,
I think that your great-grandfather and mine
(August
Duhrkoop) were half brothers (same mother). I
have
nothing to suggest that is not the case and
many
clues
that support it, but I would like to find a
more
explicit mention of it. Do you have anything
suggesting that Mary and Theodore were
cousins?
Do
you have any information about your Moeller
great-great grandparents in Europe?
If we can confirm our connection, I have a lot
of
information for you. Apart from that, I have
copies
of a few of your family's obituaries from the
Spencer
and Everly papers. I grew up in Spencer, but
now
live
in Maryland. I know your second cousins
Connie
and
Clifford.
Yours is a wonderful website. Did you design
it?
What software was used? I wish mine were
done;
I'm
still learning Dreamweaver. How did you get
such
clean copies of the census pages?
~~Donna
--- James M Fulford jfulford@pconline.com
wrote:
Donna,
My Grandmother was a Moeller born in
Keystone,
Benton county Iowa and
the family moved to Everly in 1885. Mary
Moeller,
her sister, married
Theodore Dehrkoop in Everly.
See www.curbscape.com for more information.
This email is in response to your message on
Genealogy.com forum.
Let me know if this is helpful.
James M Fulford