Charting the Immigration Path
Charts are always helpful. Between the early 1860s and 1903, nineteen descendants of Jurgen Ehmen Tonjes (1778 Wrisse-1850 Wrisse) and Frauke Eilers (1780 Holtrop, Ostfriesland-1857 Wrisse) immigrated from Wrisse, Ostfriesland, Germany. Immigration began with their adult children Tonjes Jurgen Ehmen (1805 Wrisse-1864 Illinois, USA) and Antje Jurgens (Ehmen) Albers (1811 Wrisse-1896 New Mexico) and their […]