Links To Members

The following are email addresses and links to pages of MGS members. Any member with an email address or a home page can request to be listed here. E-mail your request to webmaster@mngs.org. Please include a short list of names and/or areas of genealogical interest, your name, member number and your email address.

• Connie Anderson; Email c-ande3@tc.umn.edu; researching Norway.
• Mary Bakeman; Email mbakeman@parkbooks.com; researching the ROSTs (Germany, Sibley/Nicollet Counties of MN), KRAFTs (Posen and Winona MN), and PEHRSON (Varmland Sweden and Red Wing MN).
• Mark T. Beedy; Email marktbeedy@yahoo.com; Researching BEEDE/BEEDY and affiliated families in NH, VT, ME, NY, MN, IL, WI, IA, IN, AZ, CA and almost every other state in the union, Canada, the Isle of Jersey, France and England.
• Edward Bertsch; Website http://www.bertsch.org; Email ed@bertsch.org; Researching German-Russian, German, Norwegian, Irish Genealogy, BERTSCH, RASTETTER, EIDSMOE, QUIRK. Over 1600 in ftp'able GEDCOM file. Listed on Roots Surname List, GENSERV, Odessa Group, etc.
• Thad Carlson, Website http://www.linkedin.com/in/thadcarlson; Email Thad.Carlson@yahoo.com. Researching Giltvedt (Spydeberg & Skiptvet, Østfold, Norway), Vikesland (Aurland, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway), Modin (Stroms, Jämtland, Sweden), and Varaas (Ytterøy, Nord-Trondelag, Norway).
• Linda Coffin, Website http://www.historycrafters.com; Email historycrafters@msn.com. Member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Association of Personal Historians, and the International Society of Family History Writers & Editors. Researching Quakers in Minnesota, JONES (Chisago & Mille Lacs Co's), HILL and WESTON (Blue Earth Co.), NICKERSON/NICKESON, BIRKELAND, and WILKES.
• Bill Colehour, Website http://www.colehour.com/; Email bill@colehour.com. Currently researching all spellings of the Colehour surname as well as the Kreger surname. Spellings include: Colehour, Colehower, Colhouer, Colhour, Colhower. Locations include: Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Minnesota and Canada. Ancestral places of origin include England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, France, Germany and the Netherlands.
• William Crosby Bruzas; Email captnb@earthlink.net; Researching Cody, Crosby, Illingworth, Mcnally in England, Canada, Maine, Ohio, and the Minnesota Counties of Ramsey, Dakota, Hennepin, and Kandiyohi.
• Joe Carroll; Email jcarroll2@mchsi.com; Researching in MN, WI, New Brunswick, Ontario, Quebec, Ireland: CARROLL, COONEY, FAHEY, MURPHY, SLINEY, QUINN, ERMATINGER, LUNNEY, GRIMMER, DEVINE. Mainly Ireland to Canada to WI/MN.
• Erv Chorn; Email popchorn@msn.com
• David Cross; Email dcross@davidecross.com; Researching Norway, Sweden, MARVICK, BJELLAND, CROSS, STANLEY, BONHAM, HUNTINGTON, EVANS, SWAMBERG, ELOFSON, EKBOM.
• Paula M. Goblirsch; Website http://www.tc.umn.edu/~pmg/genealogy.html; Researching Minnesota, Wisconsin, Bohemia, Germany, Sweden; Surnames: BARES, BÜCHL, DRESEN, DÜRMER, FALLGREN, GOBLIRSCH, GUERTEN, KNOBLAUCH, SCHIEFELBEIN, SEIFERT, STUMPF, RUHLE, UTKE, WARTA.
• Dixie Hansen; Email dx@dxhansen.com; researching Norway, West Virginia.
• Conrad Irrgang; Email conradirrg@yahoo.com; researching IRRGANG, SONDAG, DORN, MANS, SWANSON, GIEFER and others.
• Darlene C. Joyce, CGRS; Offers professional assistance to beginners, and to those with special research problems. Member Association of Professional Genealogists, and Genealogical Speakers Guild; chair of the Minnesota Cemetery Project. Website http://www.findmyfamilyplease.com; Researching FINICAL, REIQUAM, CRUIKSHANK, NORTON, ANDERSON, JOHNSON, EVANSON, SMITH, RAMSEY.
• Ivan R. Kellerhals; Email kel6172@cableone.net; researching: KELLERHALS and DICKEY in TN, IL, IA, Germany and Switzerland; GOKEN, COFFMAN, DICKEY, GARRELTS and KELLERHALS in Germany, TN, IA, IL, OH and MN.
• Pat Lowe; Email patgenl@aol.com
• Jodi Magnuson; Website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jodi/; Email jodimag@earthlink.net; Researching: MAGNUSON <Visingsö, Jönköping län, Smaland, SWEDEN; Big Lake, Sherburne Co, MN> / JOHNSON, FREDRICKSON, SIGFRIDSON, MORAEUS <Orsa, Dalarne, SWEDEN; Athens Twp, Isanti Co, MN> / MARDELL, SPJUT <Örkelljunga, Skane and Söraby, Kronobergs län, SWEDEN> / HAGEN, Mansson < Oslo, NORWAY> / TORSEN, HATLESTAD, THOMPSON <Norddal, NORWAY, Minneapolis, MN> / GARDNER, TAYLOR, MORGAN, CROWELL <Corning, IA, OH, NY, ENGLAND>.
• Philipp Marquardt; E-mail imothep240@yahoo.de; Phone 0049 5341 2251585; Professional researcher in Germany. Member of APG. Research areas: Northrine-Westphalia; Schleswig-Holstein; Hamburg; Bremen; Berlin; Lower Saxony; Mecklenburg-Vorpommern; Saxony; Thuringia; East and Westprussia; Pommerania; Silesia; Bessarabia; Bucowina; Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania and some more Places where German people lived in the past.
• John K. Matthews; Website http://www.skypoint.com/members/jkm/; Email jkm@skypoint.com; researching NJ, PA, KS, OK states and the names AYARS, BOWDRY, BOYD, CLAYTON, JOPLING, KAUFHOLD, MATTHEWS, MCGAUGHEY, PROBST, STREET, WALKER, AXTELL, BEACH, DAY, FAIRCHILD, GOULD, MASTERSON, RICE, SMITH, ZIEGLER.
• David Morehouse, CG; E-mail: dmmorehous@aol.com; research focuses include colonial New England, New York and Maryland; 19th century Pennsylvania and the Midwest; the British Isles, the Netherlands and Denmark; microhistory and prosopography. Minnesota research focuses include Morehouse, Cosgrove and Meagher of Stearns Co., Barkuloo of Dakota and Ramsey Cos., Birkebak of McLeod Co.
• Janet Roseen; Email j-rose@tc.umn.edu; interested in contacting anyone researching the surname BIFFLE.
• John Rys; Website on Rys Genealogy http://www.john.rys.name covering the genealogy of the Rys family name from Jordanow, Spytkowice and Toporzysko, Poland south of Krakow Poland.
• Christopher D. Simonson; Email cds2260@yahoo.com; interested in Norwegian ancestors.
• Rosalie Eben Schack, CG (Certified Genealogist); Email historyhunter@q.com; Member Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), researching in upper midwestern states, especially Minnesota, South Dakota, & Iowa, historian, writing family histories.
• Richard E. Thill; Email rthill04@yahoo.com; researching THILL (Luxembourg); LABELLE (MN & WI); LEBEL (Quebec, Can. & Normady, France); ROY aka ROI aka KING (MN & Canada); CRUSAN (PA & OHIO); REBER (MN & Austria).
• Paula Stuart Warren; Email PaulaStuartWarren@gmail.com; Blog http://paulastuartwarren.blogspot.com/; researching in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Iowa. Research at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Also researching midwestern and northern plains Indians.
• Don Wester; Email don.wester@comcast.net; - Minn. surnames: RIEBETH, BLAKE. Wisc. & So.Dak. surname: ASPINWALL. Kentucky surnames: WESTER/WESTRAY, ARMSTRONG, SPENCER, DENTON. Indiana surnames: STORM, DENNY. Also Mennonites to KS, and Sephardic Jews to MN.
• Kathryn White; Email monokeros@aol.com; Researching BROUSSEAU (Carlton county, MN), DERR (Howard County, Iowa and Stearns Co., MN), SCHRIEFELS (Stearns County, MN), WHITE (Dekalb County, Illinois and Sherburne County, MN), and TIDD (Morrison County, MN and Ohio)
• Ron Zurek; Email rzurek@live.com; MNGenWeb county coordinator for Benton County and Mille Lacs County. Author of "Sauk Rapids and Benton County," Arcadia Publishing, July 2002. Researching: ZAWACKI and FROST.