Introduction...

Luxembourg
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Adeline Gnirk published a book called "The Capital City Saga" which recorded, in part, the history of Gregory County, South Dakota including the city of Burke where my Great-Grandfather, Conrad Martin Klein Jr. (referred to as "Junior" throughout these posts), settled in the early 1900's.  Included in that book were biographies of those who lived in Burke, South Dakota and one of those biographies was of my Great-Grandfather.  You can read a copy of that biography by clicking HERE. 

Keep in mind that much of that biography is based on second hand recollections of that era that have been found to be mistaken.  Many of the mistakes are corrected in these posts found on this blog-site.

Burke, South Dakota is not where our family story begins.  Conrad Martin Klein's father (referred to as "Senior" throughout these posts) is said to have emigrated from Luxembourg.

My father pulled Adeline's book from his bookshelf and showed me Junior's biography while we were home visiting for Christmas.  That is the moment that the "bug bit" and I became interested in genealogy.  It must've been the Christmas of 2010 because January of 2011 is when I purchased my first membership to ancestry.com.  

Ancestry.com provided enough information to keep me interested in continuing my search and the story continues to unfold as I search.  

While there are still many unanswered questions, and a lot of research continuing, we have found that our story is a little different than what we had always assumed.  The research isn't always easy and often it's quite boring and tedious.  It seems that as soon as I feel like I've reached a dead-end in the search, I'll find one more little piece of information buried deep in some location I wasn't expecting, and the next thing I know I've found myself knee deep in new information!

Below is the ever-growing and unfolding history of our branch of the Klein's from Luxembourg.

My mother's side of my family, the Dunahoo's, can be found by clicking HERE.

I'll be updating this blog as I gather information.

Glen Klein

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