CONTENTS

Credits

1
Six Children in Russia

11

Adventists vs Mennonites

21

Four Ladies

31
About the Name

2

Dürksens and Funks

12

Abraham Dirksen

22

New Home

32

Dircks in Holland

3

Emigration Considered

13

Pioneer Doctor

23

Stutsman County

33

Holland to Prussia

4

Delegates in America

14

Struck Dead

24

Dirksen Brothers

34

Earliest Verifed Ancestor

5

Russia to America

15

Six Fatherless Children

25

Woodworth Mercantile

35

Tragheimerwiede Church

6

Philadelphia

16

Turner to Logan County

26

Minister Abraham

36

Prussia to Russia

7

Train

17

Second Homestead

27

Jacob and Sarah Gone

37

Molotschna Colony

8

Yankton

18

Logan to Stutsman Co

28

Diesem Church

38

Alexanderthal Village

9

Turner County

19

Jacob Widowed

29

Leaving North Dakota

39

Life in Russia

10

Four Families

20

Sarah and Jacob Marry

30

Six Immigrants

40

Next