Looking for Volstorf information in the area from 1880 to about the 1950's..Names of interest Ralph, Rudolph, and Marjorie born around 1910 in Michigan City....Thanks for any help..Tom Shaw

I found two Volstorfs in the La Porte Co. death records via http://www.usgenweb.com/ and using the States Search Engine on the right. On the left you can go to Indiana & then La Porte. The website has people who do look-ups (scroll way down on the selection screen) and perhaps you can obtain a newspaper obit for information. I have the 1904 La Porte History & Bios book but I did not find the surname in the index. Perhaps someone will see your msg. that has info-- otherwise you might try the above.

VOLSTORF, CARL 1/13/1908 IN June,1975 MICHIGAN CITY
VOLSTORF, RUDOLPH 3/19/1906 IN May ,1984 La Porte

In case you haven't seen it-- there are a lot of Volstorfs at the Greenwood cemetery, Michigan City http://www.rootsweb.com/~inlpccem/greenwood/gwv.htm

Tom
If you contact me I can help you with Volstorf, Shaw etc.. Charles Volstorf was married to my great grandaunt in Michigan City. They had seven children. I have quit a bit on the Volstorf's etc. also need some blanks filled in on the present generations.

I posted the following message on the "Volstorf" surname message board, but I thought it might be appropriate to re-post to the LaPorte Co. message board as well. I accidently forgot to post this as a reply so it will appear on the LaPorte Co. message board twice. My apologies.

Where in Germany did your Volstorf families originate? My husband's gr-grandmother was Mathilda VOLSTORFF (married name HOPP) of Elgin, Kane Co., IL (their Americanized surname was with two F's...the original name in Germany was actually VOLSDORF) so I've done extensive research on this VOLSTORFF family...including hiring a professional researcher in Germany to get church records for me. Mathilda was the daughter of one of the original immigrating family members. My earliest information begins with the marriage Gustav Theodor Martens VOLSDORF and Grete Sophie Friederike SCHROEDER on 28 March 1840 in Leistenow, Pommern, Germany. They had nine children:

Maria Volsdorf b. 12 July 1840 in Leistenow
Friedrich August Christian Volsdorf b. 4 Oct. 1842 in Wilhelminenthal
Carl Friedrich Theodor Volsdorf b. 27 Jan. 1845 in Heydenhof
Carl Friedrich Christoph Volsdorf b. 6 Jun. 1847 in Heydenhof
Johann Albert Friedrich Volsdorf b. 1 Dec. 1849 in Heydenhof
Christine Marie Caroline Volsdorf b. 23 Mar. 1853 in Heydenhof
August Volsdorf b. 23 Mar. 1855 in Schmarsow
Friederike Marie Johanne Volsdorf b. 26 July 1860 in Borgwall
Wilhelmine Caroline Friederike Volsdorf b. 7 July 1863 in Borgwall

A lot of my information came from the church books in parish Kartlow, and I've collected a ton of paper on the families of each of these nine children. Friedrich (Frederick) above is Mathilda's father, who I mentioned is my husband's gr-grandmother. They all came to Elgin...per Germans to America, volume 17:

S.S. Eugenie, port of Hamburg, depart 1865, arrive Jan. 1866
Volksdorf, F., 51 (Farmer); Friederike, 48 (F); Maria, 20 (F); Christian, 19 (M); Carl, 18 (M); Friedrich, 9 (M); Caroline, 7 (F); August 6, (M); Wilhelm [possibly Minnie], infant (F); Johan, 23 (Farmer).

Let me know if you have any connection or if you need assistance to further your search for ancestors.

Lisa HOPP

I realize your post was from 2006, but I have just started
doing the history on my husbands family. His grandmother
was Ella Hopp who was a cousin to Henry William Hopp married
to Mathilda Volstorff. If you are doing or are interested in Hopp history I can try to send you what I have.

Beulah Swanson

jzeese65, Would love to get with you on info swap............gallileo60@hotmail.com

It seems you now have to pay to contact members.....Tom Shaw