Hi, I'm new here, and relatively unseasoned with genealogy. I live in The States, and I can trace almost everything back perfectly within the US, and I found it easy to do things with some of the immigrants when they come over from Europe, but I'm having tremendous (as in me wasting away maybe 20-30 hours browsing/researching) my paternal GGG-Grandfather. I've checked quite a few census records, some emigration things, and know more about Schleswig-Holstein's geography than I ever thought I would. Any help, particularly useful help, would be infinitely appreciated.
I'll give you the information I have (which isn't a ton):
- His name in America was Frederick Knuths, although most people I've talked to believe this was either Knutz or Knutzen over in Europe.
- He was from either extreme Northern Germany or from Southern Denmark. Speculation as to where (on the census report it says Mecklenburg, everyone else seems to think it was Schleswig-Holstein. So I think we can probably be confident it was one of those two.
- He was born in the 1830's, 1832 most likely.
- He married a Sarah/Dorathea K (Klocker/Klochor/Klaco/Klaca) and had somewhere in the realm of nine children with her.
- He came to the USA circa 1860, and settled first Illinois, and then Iowa.
- He died in 1880 in Iowa (I'll attach the census from a decade before he died at the bottom of the page.)
- His name may have been Knutz, Knutzen, Knutsen, Knutson, Knudsen, Knut, Knudt, Knuth, etc., and there are so many in the North-Germany/Scandinavia region that it's difficult to put a precise name to him, especially when I'm so fresh at this.
If anyone had any tips for me, or can somehow find something out about him, I would be as indebted to you as anyone can be to someone they've never met. If you do find some stuff out, please explain to me how, so I can learn to follow that method myself.
Thanks, awaiting your reply,
Elliot
P.S. The census record is here
: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MDK7-YCH
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