I am seeking information about the ancesters and decedents of Jacob Allers. He was born in Ansterdam, Holland in 1863. He moved to Minnesota with his parents at the age of sixteen. He married Mary Novak in 1887. Mary came from Bohemia. They made their frist home in Belle River Minnesota. Their home was known as Belle River Park. Here Six girls and four boys were born: James, John, Peter, Theodore, Marie my ggrangmother, Anna, Christina, Catherine, Bertha and Elizabeth. He moved his family to Alberta Canada in 1907-1908. They were the first family to settle east of the Verdigris Coulee. The school and the post office were named allersville after the Allers family. The name was eventually changed to Allerston. I can be contacted by e-mail at
pkallers@budsters.com