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Elizabeth Duerksen
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Immigration note: Brothers in Need to Brothers in Deed incorrectly lists the arrival date as 25 Jul 1875.
Note: Mountain Lake 1878 p. 60: baptized by Friedrich Shaertner. Her
N.S.
O.S. and N.S. refer to Old-Style and New-Style dates. O.S. uses the Gregorian calendar as opposed to the Julian Calendar. Russia used old-style until 1918. Western Europe and colonies switched by the mid-18th century.
birth date was 13 Apr 1862.
Citations:
1
[2480]
The Abraham and Sarah (Tieszen) Duerksen Family (1975)
(Obtained from Doris DeHoogh),
1975 [p. 9]
2
[82]
Friesen, Adeline; translator, Kirchen Buch der Mennoniten Gemeinde zu Mountain Lake, Cottonwood Co., Minnesota, 1878,
1996. Photocopy [61]
3
[3275]
1895 Minnesota State Census [Midway Township, Cottonwood County, p8]
Hiebert, Clarence, ed., Brothers in Deed to Brothers in Need: a Scrapbook about Mennonite Immigrants from Russia, 1870-1885
(The title may be a play on words. "Brüder in Not" (Brothers in Need) was a German relief organization that sent food and money to starving Mennonites. The Soviets reinterpreted this humanitarian aid as "fascist collaboration."),
Newton, Kansas / Faith & Life Press, 1974 [246]
