Brian I'm happy to hear from you. Edmund was my cousin. Jakub and Marie were your great great great grandparents. They immigrated from Bohemia, which is now the Czech Republic by ship from Bremen, Germany and arrived in NY on August 1, 1868. They settled in Cleveland and that is where your great great grandfather Joseph Edel was born. on 2/6/1870. They later moved to Rice County, Mn. Your great grandfather Frank, and my father John were born in Rice County. Contact me at
edelqh@frontiernet.net and we can set up more direct communication. On April 19th there is going to an Edel reunion I would like to tell you about. Ivan