How interesting! I am Eric Ihde and I still live in Wisconsin and can trace back to Frederick Ihde and Lousa Rohrbach. My Dad still runs the family farm. My great Grandfather was Herman Ihde. I'm new on Ancestry.com but have pieced together that somewhere along the way one of my great grandfather's brothers (Frederick Jr.) moved out to California via the Dakota's, Minnesota, and Nebraska and had a bunch of kids along the way. Sounds as though you and I are distant cousins of some kind. I'd love to know more about my relatives out west.