Genealogy helps restore the many pieces of the puzzle regarding family connections. Life is defined by the dash between our birth and the time we go to meet our Heavenly Father God. I am interested in the "dashes" between my ancestor's birth and death beginning with those who came in the mid 1600s - 1700s on

MY PATERNAL SIDE:

BRAINERD/ BRAINARD- England to Connecticut, Ohio, Iowa

COLLINS -(Quakers) England- Rhode Island, New York

KNOWLES- (Quakers) settled in Rhode Island to NY to Iowa

NOYES- New York to Wisconsin

ROWE - England to Massachusetts,

NICOL - Scotland to St. Lawrence County, New York to Iowa

NICHOLAS- Pembrokshire, Wales to Illinois, Iowa

WHEELER (Puritans) Massachusettes

WILBER - (Quakers) New York to Iowa

SUSANNA WHITE (Puritan) Maiden voyage of the Mayflower to Massachusetts

MY MATERNAL SIDE:

CHILDS England to Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, South Dakota

HOUGE -Buskerud, Norway to Iowa then to South Dakota

NOLD- Switzerland to Wisconsin, South Dakota

PECKENPAUGH- Germany, Iowa

REIERSON ; Buskerud, Norway to Iowa, South Dakota

STEIBER -Germany to Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota

HUSBAND'S side: Those who came in 1898 from Denmark.

MATERNAL SIDE:

CHRISTENSEN Denmark to South Dakota, North Dakota

NELSEN -Denmark to Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota

WALTHER- Denmark to South Dakota, North Dakota

From Sweden:

PATERNAL SIDE:

CARLSON -Skane, Sweden to Minnesota, North Dakota.

LARSSON -Skane Sweden to Minnesota

NELSON -Skane Sweden to Minnesota, North Dakota

"Not to know what

happened before we were

born is to remain perpetually

a child. For what is the worth

of a human life unless it is

woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history."

-Cicero (106-43 B.C.)