From the Rhineland to Otter Tail County, Minnesota

In the 19th century, many families left the Rhineland and emigrated to the USA. On this website, you can find the family trees of some of those who settled in Otter Tail County.

For privacy reasons, people born 1900 and later are left out.

Comments, questions, suggestions, or additional information welcome.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Adolph Eickhoff

Related Files

• Ancestors of Heinrich or Henry Rusch (50 KB)
  His parents came from Homberg and Baerl to Otter Tail County, MN. The origin of the Rusch family is Hiesfeld.
• Ancestors of Hermann and Fred Weimann (38 KB)
  Their parents came to Otter Tail County, MN, from Rheinberg, Rheinland, Germany
• The Diederichs family (70 KB)
  from Saxony to the Rhineland, from the Rhineland to Otter Tail County
• Ancestors of Wilhelm (William) and J. Henry Tenter (121 KB)
  Johann Heinrich (Henry) Tenter emigrated to Edna Township, Otter Tail Co., in 1891. His brother William followed him two years later. The Tenter Lake near Dent is named after them.
• The Harthun family (78 KB)
  not from the Rhineland, but an interesting family with roots in Grenzdorf near Danzig, West Prussia