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this Jennie Wesseling Sterk? Notice the Perry Studio, Armour,SD trademark. Focusing on her husband’s complete name and using an advanced Google search, we were able to find several genealogies posted in The Netherlands that recognize Jennie as one of their ancestors even though she had emigrated away from them to America. That made it look like the Dutch people were better at locating U.S. people better than we could. This turned out to be a good demonstration on “genealogical techniques” when doing research. Often the use of one name “gets you no where.” Work hard, get one additional complete name and the flood gates open up. We
deliberately left some of the information in Dutch so you could practice the
language used by early Douglas settlers. |
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Thijs Jans Sterk is geboren op 26-02-1857, zoon van Jan Pieters Sterk en Grietje Heins Hijma. Thijs
is overleden op 19-12-1925 in Corsica, SD, USA, 68 jaar oud. Thijs trouwde,
ongeveer 36 jaar oud, omstreeks 1893 met Jennie
Wesseling, ongeveer 18 jaar oud. Jennie is geboren in 1875. Jennie is
overleden op 17-04-1961 in Artesia, CA, USA, 86 jaar oud. Kinderen van Thijs en Jennie: 1 John Sterk, geboren op 08-08-1894 in Douglas County, SD, USA. John
is overleden. While these
records suggest that many of these people were buried in Douglas county, so
far none of the graves have been located. If you know of any graves for these folks in other South Dakota
counties, such information would be appreciated. It
appears that Jennie still shows up in the 1930 census, five years after her
husband’s death. 1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Jennie Steck (a footnote here suggests the spelling could by "Sterk') Birth: abt 1875 - location Residence: 1930 - city, Douglas, South Dakota While
the above records suggest that Jennie “moved on” to California and is buried
in Artesia, California, a search in those cemeteries turned up a few Sterks
buried there, but the grave of Jennie is still not located. |