The 1880 U.S. Census documents are available to search for free online. The census questions provide a great deal of information for family historians and genealogists.
Place: Kansas, USA
A Guide to Using U.S. Census Records
The U.S. Census documents are valuable resources for the genealogist and family historian. The data collected has changed over the years since the first census in 1790. Read about the available data and the changes that have occurred.
Kansas
In the early “eighties,” a daughter colony was started in Kansas by Mr. Henry Brethouwer, one of the first to migrate from the Netherlands to Wisconsin. Brethouswer, who had been one of the advance guard in the migration from Wisconsin to Nebraska, again took up his travels in search of more land. All the claims… Read more »
Early te Selle Emigrants
Who were some of the early emigrants from the Netherlands? Based on the genealogy records, we identified the following te Selle family members who were born in the Netherlands, and died in the United States in the location shown. We don’t yet know exactly when they emigrated, but perhaps some of their American descendants will… Read more »
Emigration to America
Who were those early te Selle emigrants from the Netherlands to the United States in the mid-1800s? Why did them leave their homeland for an uncertain future in America? How did they make the perilous ocean crossings? Where did they settle? Now many descendants of those early immigrants are returning to visit Winterswijk, Netherlands and learn more about their family roots.
