

Thirty-nine of these entries were for Gfellers who were born in Switzerland. I found 429 people in six censuses, 1875-1925. Just for fun, I did a search for the Surname, Gfeller, in the Kansas State Census database. In 1875, one column asked, “Where from to Kansas?” All kinds of good stuff. This information may include relationship to head of household, marital status, occupation, and real estate data. Dependent on the specific census, clicking on the image icon can give the researcher a lot more information. Specific Information available in the 8.2 million name Kansas State Census database includes: name, age, census date, county, state, locality, birthplace, family number, gender, race, line & roll number. The following Kansas State Censuses, from the Kansas State Historical Society, are now found at :

That information, found in this obscure state census, confirmed sketchy family stories.

This census gave birthplace information that Patty didn’t have previously. She found her James Irvin Daffern family in the 1870 Kansas Census, not knowing that her grandfather’s family ever even lived in Kansas. By posting these censuses, some of us, my wife included, found schedules for families who were in Kansas for only a short period – between the Federal censuses. Some of those families stayed, but many others moved on. I was very pleased when Ancestry began posting Kansas censuses a couple years ago, knowing that millions of us who live in the west today had ancestors who passed through Kansas. That brings the entire Kansas State Census collection 1855 through 1925 to 8.2 million names. According the the blog, the 1925 schedules alone contained 1.8 million names. The primaries were held on September 28.Chris Lydiksen, at the Blog, today reported that the 1925 Kansas State Census has now been posted. This was the first state election at which the parties with "party status" - at this time, the Democratic, Republican and Progressive parties - were required to hold primary elections to nominate candidates for state offices. Welch, who then ran for lieutenant governor. The Prohibition State Committee met on August 15 at Syracuse, New York, and voted to nominate Ex-Governor William Sulzer for governor instead of the previously selected Charles E. Vladimir Karapetoff, of Cornell University, for state engineer and Louis B. Haller, of Buffalo, for attorney general Prof. Sheehan, of Albany, for treasurer Frederick O. Noonan, of Schenectady, for comptroller James C. Kitchelt, of Rochester, for secretary of state Charles W. Mahoney, of Buffalo, for lieutenant governor Mrs. Senator Gustave Adolph Strebel for governor Stephen J. They nominated Charles Edward Russell for U.S. The Socialist state convention met on July 5 at Rochester, New York. Senators have been elected with the state officers on the state ticket, and selected in the party primaries. Murphy, led to a constitutional amendment. Sheehan or any other crony of Tammany boss Charles F. Roosevelt, who was decided to impede the election of William F. Senators had been elected by the New York State Legislature, but the lengthy stalemate between Tammany and a faction led by State Senator Franklin D. Senators from New York were elected by general ballot.
