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There's some great new photographs and information online courtesy
of Linda Ward. Biographies are now available for her father,
William Jerome Morse, sisters Carol Marie,
Marguerite Louise, Katherine Alice Morse;
brother, William Dennis Morse, husband, Clay Andrew Ward
and herself. In addition, there are some wonderful new pictures of her mother,
Alvina Marie Morse (née Kampa).
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Thank you so much, Marge Randall and
sister, Helen Hengel, who have shared some heartwarming remembrances of their father,
Al Hamer. There is now a biography online for Helen's
husband, Virg Hengel. In addition, Marge has also
contributed a reminiscence of her mother, Alma Hamer (née Stimler).
More gems from Marge include a photograph of Johann and Magdalene Stimmler
(née Schmitt) circa 1870, a photograph of young Anton Stimmler going off to enlist
in the Civil War and a beautiful wedding portrait of Helen Parent (née Stimler)!
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Dennis Lewandowski's book, "The History of Foley" has recently
been published with synopses of 100 years of newspaper articles about Foley, Minnesota.
Joe Hall has kindly gathered together the items listed therein regarding
Tony Stimler, plus there is further information posted regarding the location of his
blacksmith shop and garage. Also, a new posting has been made to the
Family Stories section regarding Hall's Old Store, built in 1899. Thank you, Joe!
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Biographies are online for Franciska "Frances" and
Julia Kampa, daughters of Martin and Frances Kampa (née Jurek),
in addition to one for Julia's husband, Theodore Halfman.
This is due to Sharon Farrah's diligent research. She has also provided a copy of
John F. and Margaret Kampa (née Balder)'s
wedding photograph, circa 1916. A round of applause to Sharon!
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Wonderful new and old photographs and information recently have been
added to the site courtesy of Gene Kampa. The latest posted pictures are
of Jack and Janet Munson circa 1939/1940, Peter and
Justin Kampa, the Reha and Carol (Kampa) Butros
family, Mary Ann Kampa (née Deshler) in the Starlight Review,
an excellent old charcoal drawing of John Haaf and a sketch by Eric Johnson circa 1972 of Bob Kampa and
Vince Ferragamo during their reign as Cal State Golden Bears of the Week! In addition,
there now are biographies online for Joseph Fortino and
Suheyl Reha Butros. Also, there is an interesting newspaper clipping circa
1905 of a Kampa family reunion at Joseph and
Theresa (Balder) Kampa's home with the entire clan in attendance! A special treasure is a
letter from Frances Windhurst (née Kampa)
to her husband George upon the death of her father, Joseph Leander Kampa,
dated July 14, 1954. Thank you so much, Gene!
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LoisMarie O'Konek contributed
a photograph of Franiczek and Marya Kampa and their family. Due to her efforts and
those of Carol Kampa Buczak, biographies are now online for
Charles T. Kampa, son of Thomas J. Kampa, Sr.,
and Charles' wife Helen "Alina" Kampa.
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Connie Balder Mickolajak has
discovered a very useful site, the Lexicon of Polish Cities, Towns and Villages. This
site is a great tool for travellers and researchers alike as it lists in German, Polish and English contact information and background
on all the cities, towns and villages in Poland. She also has found a site maintained by the Oldenburg
University in Germany that gives information on how to sort out loose ends and get more information from the book,
"Germans to America." A link has been added to both sites on our Resources page. Connie contributed
a picture of the "Saxonia, the ship on which Carl and Maria Balder
and their family immigrated. Last but not least, there is now a biography for Clifford Balder online
with a great picture of Cliff and his wife, Mary Joyce, and also of Connie Mickolajak and Cliff! Thank you so much,
Connie!
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Sharon Farrah's in-depth
research has turned up information regarding and photographs of Mary Adelman (née Kampa),
Joseph and Thomas Kampa's sister. With this addition
we now have three lines of Kampa siblings, children of Martin and
Frances Kampa, represented on the family web site. Hats off to Sharon for all her
hard work!
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Thanks to Dana Stimler's
and Sharon Farrah's research, the relationships between the members of both the
Nolette-Latterell lines are now available. Courtesy of Clifford Balder and
Dick Kampa, the Balder family relationships are also being added.
Furthermore, Thomas Kampa's line is being appended to the site as well.
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Joe Hall's
research has turned up historic Bureau of Land Management documents -- the deeds for the homesteads of
Joseph Balder, Martin Kampa and his sons Joseph and
Thomas. He also located the deeds for the homesteads of Franz Anton and his brother,
Nicholas Stimmler. Thank you, Joe!
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Courtesy of
Sharon Farrah's research, Martin Kampa's,
Thomas J. Kampa, Sr.'s and Mrs. Elizabeth Haaf's obituraries are now online. Also, there are now
biographies for Clear Lake pioneers, John and Mary (Imholte) Kaufmann,
and Tony Stimler's brother, Paul W. Stimmler.
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A copy of Don Kampa's
book, Gram and Gramps, has kindly been provided by his son
Dick. In it are many
great stories of family life, including Don's reminisence
of his brother Edmund, brother Gene,
sister Martha and her husband John Munson,
Aunt Pauline (Kampa) Robinson,
cousins Vern and Marge Robinson and Joe and Red Stimler,
and his remembrance of a 1997 Kampa family reunion in San Francisco. Also now
online is Dick Kampa's reminiscence on Don and Dorothy Kampa.
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Gene Kampa has generously
contributed some new and old photographs for inclusion on the family site. Thanks to Gene, there is a second
picture of the Joseph L. and Lena Kampa wedding party.
There are also new photographs on his grandfather's, father's, sisters' (Frances,
Dorothy, Louise, Alvina
and Martha) and brothers' (Ed and
George) biographies. Gene also has shared his
reminiscence about his brother Ed.
In addition to a photograph of the Gene and June Kampa family
circa 1954, photographs have been added to his children's (Fran,
Peggy, Bob, Carol
and Peter) biographies. Finally, there is now an
obituary for Frank Kampa from the St. Cloud Times circa October 1949.
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New biography pages are now online for John Haaf
and his wife Katherine M. Haaf (née Kaufmann). These include photographs
of them and their family, Clear Lake hotel, home and their obituaries, all courtesy of
Sharon Farrah's in-depth research.
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Sharon A. Farrah's father
has a book of original plat maps from 1903 to 1930 of some of the townships in Benton and Sherburne County, and has been
kind enough to share some of the maps with us. Thanks to them both, the townships of Alberta, Glendorado, Graham, Langola,
Palmer and St. George are all represented here. There is now a new Selected Maps section to the
site where these maps may be found.
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Research from Sharon A. Farrah
has turned up St. Marcus Catholic Church of Clear Lake 1888-1978 with information regarding the
Beginnings of a Clear Lake Catholic Community. Not only does it contain historical
information about Anton Stimmler,
Anthony V. Stimler and
Father Valentine Stimmler, but it also establishes that
Magdalena Stimmler was Magdalena Otilia Haaf's
grandmother and namesake. This means that Joseph Leander Kampa's
line is doubly related to Mary Theresa Kampa's line
on both the paternal and maternal sides of the family!
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Photographs from the June 10, 2000 West Coast reunion
are now available for viewing! Come and acquaint yourselves with all the new relatives!
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Courtesy of Dick Kampa, there are a number of "new" photographs
of Kampa ancestors posted on their respective biographies. Edward, Clara,
Frank, August B., Bertha,
William and Joseph Leander Kampa have all
been updated as a result. In addition, for the first time on the site there are wedding photographs for
Henry and Loretta Winkelman (née Abfalter)
and August B. and Agnes Kampa (née Hawia).
Special treasures are some of the postcards exchanged between the Kampa brothers and their nephew Edmund Peter Kampa.
The front features a photograph of our Kampa relatives in pose or engaging in everyday events and the reverse has their
handwritten message which has been transcribed for ease of reading. Some of these finds are a 1909 photograph postcard of
Ed and Bill Kampa, Bill Kampa and his baseball team,
and Bill Kampa seated in the dining room of the Avon Hotel.
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At the recent reunion the idea of an
Orphan Photographs section
arose as a way of showing and identifying family photographs of relatives whose names have been lost in time. Please
help us identify these orphans and give them a home! If you too have orphan photographs of relatives you think our
family group can help identify, please feel free to forward the original or a scan to
Rae Bordua and she will add them to the site.
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