These next few pages will be a list of some of the early surnames in our family trees. These are by no means the only ones but are some of the names before 1900 that show up in our family trees. I will list them in table form according to areas and family names.

These names are from the LaCrosse Wisconsin Area and date back to the founding of the city of LaCrosse.

 Anthony, Bauman, Bayer, Besl, Birkenmeyer, Boor, Brown, Bundru, Craigon, Currant, Devine, Didier, Doerflinger, Eckert, Elsen, Feiney, Fellows, Frisch, Grethew, Hahn, Horning, Jiracek, Johnston, Keaveny, Kellers, Kriescher, Langstadt, McDonald, McNett, Meinertz, Naegle, Neises, Noonan, Oeschger, Olivier, Osweiler, Paulin, Powell, Preschle, Rehfuss, Roche, Schneedecker, Schnorenburg, Schwerer, Sellen, Simonton, Taylor, Wachter, Walsh, Weber and Wiggert.

These names are from the Houston County area of Minnesota and also from the Stillwater Mn. area.

Appel, Bissen, Braun, Bryant, Charron-Ducharme, Crimmins, Dailey, Davy, Enos, Georgen, Hoey, Hurdlebrink, Hurley, Kent, Martin, Merrill, Merritt, Miller, Ritter, Ruzicka, Schaffer, Sigler, Sherwood, Smith, Thiele, and Yeager.

These names are from the Houston county area of Southern Minnesota with the Graff name in the Chicago area and the Bucher name in Germany near Buhlingen.

Bucher, Bunn, Burke, Conniff, Cummings, Douseman, Easton, Epple, Fetzner, Finley, Flannery, Hoey, Geusern, Graf, Graff, Henn, Ideker, Justin, Kopf, Kraft, Kreutzer, Lehmann, Leiser, Losey, Maier, Mauch, Rottweiler, Sauter, Scherer, Schild, Schneckenburger, Sheehan, Singer, Tschumper, Vervatt, Voshart, and Zeimet.
 
 

These names are from the Ulster County area of New York and from the Grant County area of Wisconsin. We currently have 15,400 members of this file and it is growing daily. The descend from one individual who came to America in the early 1600. IF you have any of these names listed you probably are a member of the Van Etten family the grandson of Marinus Adriense of Etten Holland or Jacob Jansen Adriese Van Etten (which means from Etten in Dutch). Some of the common names are:

Bertram, Brown, Campbell, Chapman, Clemons, Conklin, Cuddeback, Davis, Decker, Duve, Edge, English, Ennis, Gollmer, Jackson, Johnson, Jones, Keesler, Klar, Marks, Martens, McFall, McKinsjie, McLinn, Meeker, Miller, Moore, Orr, Ostrander, Pollreisz, Rech, Reuter, Roosa, Russell, Schoonover, Scott, Sisson, Smith, Steinhoff, Terwilliger, Timmerman, Toulouse, Udelhofen, Van Eaton, Van Etten, VanNatta, VanWagner, Westfall, Williams, Wilson.

If your family comes from Ulster County, New York or Grant County Wisconsin you might want to check our family tree maker page where we have a more complete tree of this extensive family tree. Please click http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/e/v/Steven-W-Devine/