Name : Kelly
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Your Email: : kjjanison@hotmail.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Your residence state or country: : Iowa City, Iowa
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Comments: : For an intriguing op-ed piece about immigration to Iowa, see newspaper columnist Rob Bignells Moving to find new hope: A new version of an old story at http://www.press-citizen.com/opinion/cornfieldsoul/050403cornfieldsoul.htm.
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Name : Jay Obrecht
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Your Email: : jc_obrecht@hotmail.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Perry, Iowa
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Name : Connie Sawyer
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Your Email: : ssawyer@ll.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : C. Oscar Johnson, Abe and Andrew Anderson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 18
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Your residence state or country: : Taylor county , Iowa
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Comments: : This is a really nice web site. My son in college ran across it. Thanks for putting the time into it!
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Name : Glen Friedrichsen
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Your Email: : glen9@earthlink.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 10
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Your residence state or country: : New Hampshire
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Comments: : I enjoyed seeing the picture of the enterior of the Kiron State Bank. I worked at the bank for four years. I think the customer being served with no name is Kermit Benson.
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Name : Janet Lindeblad Janzen
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Your Email: : janzej@friends.edu
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : August Lindblad
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Wichita, KS
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Comments: : Very interesting website with lots of family history. Im unable to read the emigrant lists however--they are in some strange font.
Does anybody know if August Lindblad and Nicholas Lindblad, both of Bethel Lutheran church, were related?
Thank you.
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Name : Janet Lindeblad Janzen
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Your Email: : janzej@friends.edu
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : August (Petterson) Lindblad
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Wichita, KS
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Comments: : I dont know who wrote this web page, but apparently were cousins. My great grandfather was August Lindblad of Kiron, Iowa (wife: Kerstin Gustafus Guterman)
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Name : Marjorie Peterson Southard
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Your Email: : marge623164@msn.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Edna Corneilia Burkwall Loomer
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Arizona
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Comments: : You have a great website and was delighted to come across the obituary of Edna Burkwall she was my grandmother Cecilia Olsdotter Peterson cousin.
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Name : carl-erik ripa
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Your Email: : carl-erik@ripa.se
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Your Website URL: : www.ripa.se
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Bilsten - belstene
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Your residence state or country: :
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Comments: : The 25 of January 2003
Reunion 14 September in Sweden
Bilsten - Belstene - Broddessonm family
Some of our relatives in USA have asked when we will have the next family meeting in Sweden
The meting will be on Sunday the 14 of September in Oderlj
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Name : Gwen Wells
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Your Email: : gwenaw@charter.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Clauson/Lindstrom
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 4 years
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Your residence state or country: : WA.
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Comments: : You have done a super great job, Glenn! I really have enjoyed read-ing about the Clauson/Lindstrom history - many things I didnt know! I have printed off articles and pictures for my grown children as I know that they will enjoy reading about the heritage
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Name : Travis Ahlquist
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Your Email: : tahlquist1572@yahoo.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Alfred Ahlquist
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Minnesota
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Comments: : I stumbled onto this website just goofing around. I am going to tell my Father and Aunt, who love to find out about this type of stuff. It has also spurred my interest.
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Name : Charles Dale Rosenquist
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Your Email: : rosykiron@juno.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Danielson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 22
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Your residence state or country: : Oregon
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Comments: : Thanks Glenn for a good job. Thank you for sending information for the Cenntennial. Your info. helped with the pageant. Dale
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Name : David Ogren
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Your Email: : ogrend@centurytel.net
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Your Website URL: : www.baraboovalleywindsors.com
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Daniel William Ogren
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 20
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Your residence state or country: : Wisconsin
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Comments: : I grew up on a farm that my father, Wayne Ogren inherited from my grandfather near Odebolt. My aunt lived in Kiron and my dad used to take me to see her and the old farm where he grew up. I would like to know where my grandfather came from in Sweden, why
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Name : Scott Clauson
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Your Email: : sclauson@hotmail.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Clauson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : none
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Your residence state or country: : Ames, IA
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Comments: : Lowell Clauson was my great uncle, he recently passed away. I just wanted to check out your website, I heard alot about it. I am the son of Samuel Clauson, who is the son of Rev. Ralph Clauson. I attened Lowells funeral with my garndmother Lu Clauson. Low
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Name : Marlan Proctor (Pachta)
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Your Email: : pm40693@aol.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : John Proctor (Pachta)
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : California
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Comments: : You have incorrect information concerning my ancestors. My great grandfather, John Pachta, changed the family name to Proctor and moved to California. His wife's name was Barbara Laughery.
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Name : HELENE NILSSON
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Your Email: : coral.helene@telia.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Comments: : im glad that you have my grandfather in your data base now.
A-M Nelson händelöp
Im working with informationm for you.
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Name : Helena Kmonicek
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Your Email: : helenakm@lycos.com
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Your Website URL: : http://www.genealogy.com/users/k/m/o/Helena-Kmonicek
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Peter / Peters
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : -
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Your residence state or country: : Missouri
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Comments: : Searching for PETER or PETERS, and also other ancestors from Bohemia/Germany.
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Name : Virginia Nelson
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Your Email: : anvi@pionet.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 11/24/57-2/2/72
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Your residence state or country: : Denison, IA 51442
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Comments: : Andy & I purchased the Gustafson
Sundries Nov. 1957 from Melvin G
Many good memories of the years
we lived in Kiron.
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More: : Thanks, Glen, for all the work
you have done on Kiron Kountry
history.
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Name : Andrew Nelson
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Your Email: : anvi@pionet.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 11/24/57 thru 2/2/72
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Your residence state or country: :
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Comments: : Purchased Gustafson Sundries Nov. 1957
Moved to Denison IA Feb. 1972
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More: : Many good memories of living in
Kiron.
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Name : Martha McSherry
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Your Email: : mcsherry@gmavt.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Martin Synnerholm
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 0
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Your residence state or country: : Vermont
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Comments: : I believe this may have been my grandfather who was born November 10, 1875 in Synnerby, Sweden and died April 15, 1922 in Ripon, California. Interesting that his name had 2 'n's. mine had one 'n' and yet I'm not sure if the 1 'n' Synerholms on your list w
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Name : christie
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Your Email: : cplirazan@hotmail.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Your residence state or country: :
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Comments: : trying to find out where my last name came from.thanks!!!
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Name : Kathy Gnas
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Your Email: : Frostypoo@msn.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Your residence state or country: :
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Comments: : Thank you so much for the information from the booklet on swedish settlements in Iowa. I had come across a reference to one of my great aunts emmigrating from Sweden to Moingona, IA.
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Name : Sharon
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Your Email: : sharon@elltel.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Nels Johnson and families
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : ?
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Your residence state or country: : Washington
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Comments: : This is a fabulous reference for those of us beginning our journey into genealogy-- One of the very best I've seen. Some of the links don't work really well yet- but I am sure they will. You have helped me get a great start. Hope to visit there soon!
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Name : Skip Rice
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Your Email: : skip_rice@hotmail.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Swan Johnson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Nebraska
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Comments: : Swan Johnson a brother of Bengt. Swan moved to Kiron about 1870 from Moline,IL. I'm a direct descendant of Bengt. I would like to find out more about Swan and his descendants.
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Name : Kristina Ekberg-Cahill
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Your Email: : KC564@aol.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : fl
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Comments: : researching family tree. There are alot of my ancestors in your lists.
How do I get one of theose cd roms of immigration to the us that I hear about? from sweden?
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Name : Fredrik Andersson
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Your Email: : fredrikandersson@mac.com
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Boxholm, Sweden
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Comments: : Interesting page.
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Name : Bengt Olsson
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Your Email: : 050461457@telia.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Anthony Anderson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 0
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Your residence state or country: : Tibro, Sweden
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Comments: : Finaly I foud my grandmother´s brother Anthony Anderson (Anton Andersson) 1893- 1949) But you are wrong, he wasn´t Sven and Anna Anderson´s son and brother of Edyth Anderson. He was married to Edyth. What happened to Edyth? Anyone who knows??
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Name : Bengt Olsson
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Your Email: : 050461457@telia.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Anthony Anderson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 0
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Your residence state or country: : Tibro, Sweden
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Comments: : Finaly I foud my grandmother´s brother Anthony Anderson (Anton Andersson) 1893- 1949) But you are wrong, he wasn´t Sven and Anna Anderson´s son and brother of Edyth Anderson. He was married to Edyth. What happened to Edyth? Anyone who knows??
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Name : Peter Cremer
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Your Email: : saarpc@t-online.de
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Your Website URL: : http://www.cremerpeter.de/
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Saarland / Germany
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Comments: : Maybe 42 years ago, i wrote letters with a girl named Roxanne Fredriksson. She lived in Marshalltown/Iowa. Can you help me to find her adress or email-adress?
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More: : Please help me. I have no other idea to find out where she lives.
Thank you.
Peter Cremer from behind the big pond
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Name : Ray Kroeger
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Your Email: : kroeger@pioneer.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Joergen & Frederike Kroeger
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 0
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Your residence state or country: : OR
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Comments: : There I have signed your guest book so you can find my e-mail address when you need it.
RAY
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Name : fawn
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Your Email: : fawn15@webtv.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : FL
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Comments: : my sister who I have not met yet, lives in Ida Grove, & we hope to meet when I can afford to- this or next year, she is a librarian-
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Name : Ruby Hendrickson
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Your Email: : SwedeBndIA@aol.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Webster County
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : California
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Comments: : Hi Glenn: What an incredible amount
of work you have done here!!!!!
I'm just starting, after a delay.
Will e-mail you a message.
"Tack!" Ruby (Erickson)Hendrickson
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the main pages for reference.
Want to find your genealogy
37,000 ind. page.
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Name : Linda Martin
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Your Email: : l_a_martin@hotmail.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Hachmann, Kroeger, Vosgerau
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Washington
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Comments: : THANK YOU! I am so appreciative of all the work that has gone into this website. I felt like I'd hit a goldmine of information!
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Name : Sharon Buxton-Bregola
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Your Email: : SLBregola@hotmail.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Mary E. Lindberg
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : IL
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Comments: : Sister of Olophina, Christian, Gus, Oliver
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Name : Sharon Bregola
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Your Email: : SL/
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Name : carolannfranzen
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Your Email: : carolann002
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : curtismcdaniel
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : ILL usa
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Comments: : Thanks very much I enjoyed website Not sure /JessieMcdaniel is my grabdads brother simmon perter mcdaniel RuthRolland Mcdaniel is simon's daughter my mom sincerely carolann002
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More: : PsPlease contact me if you have anymore on any mcdaniel
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Name : Pat LaRock
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Your Email: : pjlarock@rconnect.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Lindblom, John Olof
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : none
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Your residence state or country: : MN
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Comments: : I love visiting your website, Glenn! If you update, please note that John O. Lindblom's wife was Helen Danielson. His dau. Johanna became known as Hannah and married Peter Gustav Carlson in Portland, OR. I have details. Thanks!
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More: : John O. Lindblom served in the Civil War in a MN company.
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Name : Helene Nilsson
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Your Email: : coral.helene@telia.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Händelöp, Västervik
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Comments: : Hej!
I have found a Clara Maria Johansdotter born at Händelöp Västerum Sweden. Im born on the same place Händelöp, 1972.
Im going to found out who she was,
please send your e-mail i you want
som pictures or info. of Händelöp.
See you!
Helene
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Name : julie
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Your Email: : jhummel@pionet,net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Sjogrens
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 1890 and up
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Your residence state or country: : Sac City
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Comments: : Great site. I got lots of info.
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Name : Shawna
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Your Email: : Turner
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Buller / Berg / Samuelson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Ohio
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Comments: : I love this web site. I have found good info. And I enjoy gazing in tne faces of the people you have pics and no names, wondering if they are my relitives. My grandpa truely knows very little about his family ties, so It was great finding names and dates
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Name : Glenn Murray
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Your Email: : glenn.murray@enitel.no
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Your Website URL: : http://www.pogostick.net/~glennmur/
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Woldstad
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Norway
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Comments: : I'm interested in the fate of twins
John Woldstad and Lars (Lewis) Woldstad born 1877. Left Norway in 1893, destination Iowa.
In Kiron Kountry at 1895 census.
Glenn Murray
Oslo, Norway
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Name : Kiron Cheema
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Your Email: : kiron@olsonsundberg.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): :
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : washington
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Comments: : i have a hard enough time finding monographed anything with my name spelled correctly. but a town!?!? i'm not even swedish.
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Name : Jennifer Hutchison
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Your Email: : porcelaingods@qwest.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Larson's / Erickson's
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : none
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Your residence state or country: : Colorado
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Comments: : This web site has kept me busy for hours on end. It's great!
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Name : Joan(Lundell)Paup
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Your Email: : jepaup@pionet.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Peter Lundell
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 18
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Your residence state or country: : Iowa
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Comments: : First Lundells to come from Sweden (Andrew & wife) were Peter's parents. My father was Peter's son Edmund (1 of his 12 children)
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Name : Jerrod Frahm
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Your Email: : enjfrham@wccta.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : larson, Frahm
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : none
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Your residence state or country: : Gowrie Ia
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Comments: : This site rules, glad to see it.
hope some family sees it and emails me. i dont know much history
hope to learn more, thanks
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Name : Lon Alan Wiksell
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Your Email: : lawiksell@earthlink.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Alice Lundberg Wiksell
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : Kansas
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Comments: : Alice was my grandmother. I am the youngest son of Stanley Wiksell who was the youngest son of Alice and Nels (Larson) Wiksell.
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Name : B. Horak
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Your Email: :
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Your Website URL: : http://showcase.netins.net/web/odebolt2002/index.html
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Sigurd and Anna Carlson - Bob & Dorothy Girvan
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 1900 - 1967 with time in Richland Twp., Sac County
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Your residence state or country: : Cedar Rapids
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Comments: : If any Kiron Kountry readers are interested, I am working on a web site on Odebolt area history for Odebolt's 125th town celebration.
Access it at http://showcase.netins.net/web/odebolt2002/index.html
Glenn's pages helped give me the idea!
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Name : Sherwin Larson
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Your Email: : lluke013@aol.com
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : All the Larson's
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 18
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Your residence state or country: : Puyallup Washington
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Comments: : Congratulations Glen, the site just keeps getting better and better.
Keep up the good work.
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Name : Sarah J. Miles-Dolk
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Your Email: : sdolk1@home.com
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Your Website URL: : www.adobenido.com
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Alfred Anders Johnson and Andrew Dolk
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: :
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Your residence state or country: : New Mexico
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Comments: : I have sent you separate e-mail with a correction in the latter Dolk lineage.
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Name : Alan Gustafson
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Your Email: : adgustaf@netins.net
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Your Website URL: :
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Gustafson/Clauson
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 39
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Your residence state or country: : Kiron, Iowa
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Comments: : You have spent a lot of time and effort on this huge project. You have documented VOLUMES of facts about the history of Kiron - WOW!!! It has been exciting to look back at my ancestors. You have lightened my history. I like to bounce around in the surname
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Name : Glenn William Gustafson
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Your Email: : glenn.gustafson@verizon.net
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Your Website URL: : http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gwgustaf/
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Your KironKountry ancestors(s): : Roughly 20% of Kiron Kountry's permanent residents before 1950 are my known relatives.
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Years(s) lived in KironKountry: : 21
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Your residence state or country: : California
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Comments: : Changes at Yahoo led to this new guestbook. The old GeoCities one is still available for viewing if you want to look. I have received so many comments from so many of you telling me how interesting it is to read the comments of others. In many ways, it se
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