I have made a family tree of the Mennings. A lot of the descendents of this Dutch family live in South Dakota, near Mitchell. I like to have contact with one of them.

Jan Niemeijer Phone: 598-617644  (this is the way it was submitted!)

Good morning. I got a very pleasant surprise this morning. I was planning to drop off some seed corn at the Corsica Coop and wanted to get some directions for my driver. In the process, I found your links to Answers In Genesis and Focus on the Family. I am so,so,so pleased and impressed with your choice of links. God Bless all of you. 

Garry W. Gruhn, Manilla, IA

Looking on the favorites of our computer and saw that my wife had saved the Corsica Web site. Wanted to let everyone know that your pancake breakfast held for customer appreciation is a great reminder of what living is really like. Miss those events more than I really wanted to admit.  hockey.30@bis.midco.net

Dave Fey

Weather cloudy, temp. 28 degrees- 4 inches of snow on the ground in Treadwell, New York       Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Howard Weerheim

A special "HELLO" to all my friends in Corsica! Graduated from medical school in May 2006 and I am now in my 2nd yr. of residency in anesthesia in Chicago. Best of all, my husband, Brian and I had our first child, Isaiah, 2 weeks before I graduated!

I hope the Lord has been as good to all of you as He has been to us! Best wishes to all! If you care to e-mail, please send them to marlyc_99@yahoo.com .

I am 33 years old looking for my real grandparents only have a year name De Groot my dad was adopted and his brother in Holland around 1946 1947 nick cornelious and Case now Apeldoorn than De Groot I live in California have kids and understand dutch thanks sandy 10-07

sandy effle apeldoorn

I am searching for information on Gerrit Schouwink b. 1865 and d. 28 May 1907 in Lonneker. I would appreciate any help people can give me for descendants of Jan Herman Voogsgeerd b.1864 and his wife Hermina Holter as well. Thank You.

allisonvm@hotmail.com  Allison M., Canada

It was wonderful to visit last month, with folks in tow. My father, Peter DeVries, grew up on a farm outside town -- his dad's name, Art DeVries, is still visible on the silo on the old farm. Dad really enjoyed seeing the old home sights...and so did I. Anyone with news on the DeVries and Baas families in the Corsica area, feel free to write one of your cousins here in Colorado! 

Cindy (DeVries) Brick
cindybrick@comcast.net     http://www.cindybrick.com 

I am looking for the descendants of Sikke Brondsema, so that I can continue my family history.  Sikke was called up for WWI, and the card states he lived in Corsica, SD.  I note that an earlier post was from some Brondsemas, so the family must still be there.  Could someone from the family please email me at asrelouw@bigpond.net.au so that I can continue the research.  It would be greatly appreciated.

Andre Relouw, Horsham AUST

Hello, Looking for information about Roy D. Beukelman He was KIA during WWII - 23 march 1944. His plane collided with another one in the vicinity of Vollenhove - The Netherlands .... Looking for Cora Beukelman and relatives. At the moment I'm searching for names related to my town. Of those B-24’s, some came down alive with their parachutes ( 4 ? ), the others were killed, and at the time buried in the Cemetery of Vollenhove, including Beukelman, in Grave No. 603. His body was, after the war, re-interned in the U. S. A.

see also : http://www.geocities.com/t_schuurman/jack-edward-gibbs.htm 

Kind Regards Teunis Schuurman - Vollenhove - 25 feb 2007 - +31.527.242316 or +31.527.243969    (e-mail address listed at bottom of web page linked above)

I note the names of a few who may have been in high school in 1971-72 when I taught there. I was back in 2002 to visit Fred Bruekelman at the nursing home. I am working for a financial services firm in St. Petersburg, Florida. Was a Corsica resident for only two years, but we put in a great musical show, "The Music Man."  -David J. Wilson

My grandfather, Sam Teske, moved to the 320 acre farm, 1/2 mile south and 1/2 mile east of Corsica around 1912 or 1913. The people who lived on that farm previously were Mr. and Mrs. Percy Carter. Anyone who might have more specific information would do me a favor by supplying the same, especially where such land/farm transfers might be recorded. Sam Teske and his wife, Karolina, retired around 1939 or 1940 and moved to Delmont, where they lived until they died in 1941. My email: herber.jr1554@sbcglobal.net 

Congratulations to the Corsica Comets--players, cheerleaders, and 
fans!!  Your BB record and consolation state B trophy is something to be proud 
of.  We're in CA but listened to the games via the web on KMIT.

Phyllis and Gene Noteboom

Thanks Evan for running my sale adv.. It was very much appreciated also brought a lot of response. Thanks again.  Ben

Hi, I've great things about your towns horse sale, but can't seem to find out 
when you have them so that I may attend.  Can anyone help me?

Amanda

(visit www.corsicahorsesale.com !)

Since we continue to be RVing, we enjoy the Corsica web page, as we check it daily, and enjoy reading the church news. At present, we are in AZ.  See you in the spring.

Gene & Phyllis Noteboom

Hi, I just discovered this web site as I was looking for the e-mail address of the Corsica Globe. We are having a Krull reunion in Corsica July 31, 2005 and was looking for newspaper articles to be included in a book about the Krulls. My grandfathers name was Karl Krull and his sons were Henry, Carl, George and Enno, my father. They had a daughter named Marie who married John Mayer. I am Shirley Krull Francis and am looking for any and all stories about Krulls. My grandfather and grandmother came from Germany via Iowa. My folks Enno and Verna lived on a farm 1 1/4 miles from Corsica for quite a few years and moved to 5 miles east of Dimock. Please contact me if you have any stories to tell. clshfrancis@aol.com 

Just returned from my first trip to Corsica. My wife and family vistited her parents (Willie and Gershom Punt)to celebrate their 40th anniversary. We had a great visit.

Kevin and Laura Howard

Hey, just saw the sight, it's awsome, keep it up. Put more pics on here though of the town.  Can't wait to see that new road's 'face lift' 

Brondsema Brothers (Chris, Chad, and Justin, along with Melody Brondsema.)

I love the page and I like reading about whats going on in town, the only thing I would to be able to hear more about is how all the teams in town are doing in sports.  Sorry I get really bored out here in Iceland and need something to do during the 24 hours of dark.  And if any kids need anything about Iceland for a paper or research do not hesitate to ask.  acpopeye@yahoo.com

AC2 Shane A. Schroeder USN

Hello Corsicans.  I was born in Parkston and moved away when i was little but spent each summer with my grandmother Frances Beukelman throughout the 80's.  My brothers and I have fond memories of chasing foul balls during men's baseball games, doing our first backflips off the diving board at the pool, and playing scared while vicious thunderstorms roared outside.  I married a woman named smith and told her about a town where the name Beukelman was as common as any she would see. She was shocked when we went to visit and she saw Beukelman posted right there on main street. Cool stuff. Thanks for the smile.  Great little place.

Jim Beukelman

I accidentally landed on the Corsica, SD cite while looking up history of Corsica, France. It took me back to my small town environment in NC (pop.800) when I was growing up. When going through the high school roosters over the years, I see a majority of Dutch names, especially in the 1940's through the 1970's. Some Anglo names have popped up more lately. I would assume that the original settlers in the late nineteenth century spoke The Dutch language as did many German emigrants in SD. Could you tell me when, in your town, English basically replaced Dutch. Great web cite. C. D. Lee (I live in SC)

Just to say "hello" from all the Corsicans from Michigan.  We recently spent some time in Corsica, my old home town.  The folks are so friendly, it's almost like I never left.
My family moved to Michigan in 1955 and I moved with them.  We try to get back to Corsica at least yearly, sometimes more often.  Contact me by email any time, I'd be glad to hear from you.  

Vic Lefers.  Email: kayuydell@aol.com

I really enjoyed reading all of the communications on this page. Please keep it up.  

Betty Veenstra VanderZee

Hello from Corsica Island,
How Happy I am to see that you beautifull city is named "Corsica", I've never been to your city, but next time I fly to US , I'll try to go to Dakota to your city.
If you want you can see me on Messenger or send me e-mail at paarend@hotmail.com
Pierre Andre

Hello from the Philippines. Nice to read the messages on this page. Feel free to write us at trudy_ooms@pacific.net.ph 

I really appreciate the Corsica, SD web site. This month it has been 62 years since I moved from Corsica, but Corsica is still "Home" to me. Each week I check out the local church bulletins to follow the events and prayer needs of family and friends. It is just another way to stay in touch.

Wilbur van den Hoek, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA vrdutch@cox.net

Love your webcam pictures, it's one of the few available for South Dakota. My wife is from Harrison area and grew up in Plankinton and we now live in Florida. It's nice to look at your webcams and see the weather first hand. You have a nice site, keep up the good work.

J. Arnold

Thank you for keeping us up to date on Corsica. I was in the class of 1952 which just had their 50th reunion. I noted with interest a letter regarding Walter & Lena Van Heest as their son, Rolland, is my cousin.

Kathy Van Dyke

Whe looks for us Grandfather and whe hopes they was in the church of New Holland His name was Hendrik Voogsgeerd our Hendrik Voo.  He was born in Lonneker Netherlands at the year 25-04-1830 , if they live to there can't you send Us information

My thanks

Bernard Voogsgeerd

My grandparents, Walter and Helena Van Heest, lived in Corsica till their death in their 70's. I remember the City Cafe (where they served pop with the glasses upside down on top of the bottles), Up to Date Shoppe, and Reformed Church as well as the pool with the windmill from our visits. I was there in 1966 to celebrate my grandparents' 50th anniversary and now my dad, Roland Van Heest, and mom are celebrating their 50th this summer. My dad receives the Corsica Globe and visits occasionally--I think he would move back if Mom would move with him.

Rosalynn Van Heest Koch

My father's family, John and Gertrude Vogel and 9 children, lived in the Corsica/Douglas county area during the early part of the 1900's( my father was born in 1909) . Until the 1970's the much-extended family had relatively small remaining farmland holdings in Douglas County and somewhere around that time the old family house was moved to a museum/park in the area.

Each summer the family has a fairly well attended reunion in Grand Rapids, MI., where several of the family members now live. This year I am considering arranging a brief side-trip by air to South Dakota so that the remaining old-timers can show the area to the new generation who, by some folks standards, are becoming something resembling old-timers ourselves.

I will share and appreciate any thoughts/guidance/or information anyone could give me regarding:

1. Recollections of the Vogels 2. Location and hours of the house. 3. Things to do/sights to see/places to stay in the relatively immediate area. 4. Anything else of interest to someone with a story like mine.

I live in Dallas (central time zone) and can be reached by e-mail at gv@alum.calberkeley.org or by daytime phone at 214/350-6422.

Thank you for the cards you sent my family on the death of our father, Elmer C Wieczorek on 31st of August. We thank you very much! God bless, Wieczorek family

HI,
MY NAMES IS ROGER ADAMS AND I LIVED IN TOWN UNTIL I WAS 6 (WE MOVED IN 84) LIVING IN ARIZONA NOW AND JUST THOUGHT THIS SITE WAS COOL. I LOOK AND MAIN STREET AND ITS SO WEIRD TO SEE THE SAME BUILDINGS FROM MY PAST. LOVE THE SITE. WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE PICTURES OF THE TOWN.

It is fun to get the Corsica Web page here in Arizona.  Kenneth and I are in the same RV park that Gordon and Doris are in.Viewpoint...Dennis and Lillian Beukelman and Duane and Jan of Sioux Falls are also here.

I print the bulletin sometimes for Gord and Doris. as they are not on the internet.

thanks for your good work on these web sites.
Dean Auralee ( DEE)  Kredit  dividy@aol.com

hello i live in corsica (france) and i want to know if your city was created by corsican people. scuse for my english.

don jacques antonini ajaccio, corsica

Ken and Juella are appreciating their stay at Naples, Florida.  They had a good trip down south.  While at Naples, they have two brothers and their wives right at hand.  These are Calvin and Ethel and then also Dale and Fran.  We hope all is well there at this time.
Many regards.

submitted by Cal

Hello from Anaheim California.
I was born in Mitchell however have lived in California for the past 35 years. I still have friends and relatives in the Sioux Falls area. I found your web site while trying to locate weather cams and now check in every day to see what the weather conditions are in my home state. Thank you and keep those pictures posted. I still miss the winter weather at Christmas time. You probably would like some of the warm weather from here. Wish I could send you some. Yesterday it was about 80 as I was taking down the Christmas decorations.

Best regards,
Dewayne Nelson
e mail address   nelsondl@concentric.net

Greetings from Murrieta, California. Just dropped in to visit your town website. Please say Hello to my family, Uncle Dick and Aunt Arlene Hofstee. Congratulations on your 50th wedding anniversary.

Cheryl Pyle

Hello to the folks in Corsica, especially any relatives of the Ploosters and Beukelman families.  Myron and I have just returned from a trip to the Netherlands where we visited all the villages of our Plooster and Beukelman, Nieveen and Zijlstra ancestors. In particular the villages of Zuidland, Abbenbroek and Oudehoorn all in Zuid Holland. Also visited all the home places in Gronighen and Friesland Took a ton of pictures of the villages, which we hope to share with all our families in the future.

Suzi and Myron Plooster

Date:  10 Oct 2000

Hi to all of our friends in the GREAT town of Corsica! The web page is just super and a great surprise to find.  We miss so many of you there and it would be great fun to hear from you. (marlyc_99@yahoo.com)Keep up the great work you are all doing and please e-mail us a note! 

The Doc Cruz Family
Mary Lou Cruz

I visit your Corsica web site almost everyday. It is so interesting to view ... your new almost live cam. Keeps us closer to the area where we grew up as kids when we are a hundred miles away and busy with our lives in Sioux Falls.

Merlin De Boer

I thought I would check out the Corsica home page as my grandparents and great-grandparents ran a drug store there.  Imagine my surprise when I saw my family name on a building in the main street photo!  I have heard many stories about the family store, 'DenBeste Drug'.  It was wonderful to have been able to see it.  Thank you.

Jessica LaFlesch

Hello from Alaska.  The weather is slightly colder than down there from the looks of things.  It's about to snow for the first time this year some time this week. Anyway, I just wanted to say that this is a great site, and it helps me remember what my town looks like.  I hope to visit again soon.

Wayne Bures

Hi from Denver, I was surfing the web at work and discovered the Corsica web-site. It's fun to see pictures of familiar things when I am so far away. I like the almost live picture from mainstreet, I am waiting to see my grandpa's car. mario_kowanda@hotmail.com 

Mario, Kowanda, and Karisma Jade Liddell 
Denver, Colorado 

Hallo dear friends of Corsica,

I have been looking for Corsica, Sd for a while. It was the town where Seine Harms Boertien first started a new life after imigrating from the Netherlands, this together with his wife Niesje Masselink, and their children from both their first marriages. Also where Harmen Zomer and Hermanna Kaptein, started a new life. He was a cousin of Seine Harms Boertien. Hope to visit Corsica in September, together with my wife on occasion of our 25th marriage anniversary. I sure hope to meet some descendents of the Star, Scholten, Zomer families. I am doing a research on the Dutch families who immigrated to the USA in the 1880's and later on. It was nice visiting your site, next time for real! If you would like to contact me, just send an e-mail!!! Greetings from the Netherlands

Name:  Hendrik Boertien
Phone: 0031497-382910
h.boertien@chello.nl 

YOUR FRIEND
HUGO LEON

Brent Kok son of Ray and Berdine Kok

Hi to the People of Corsica.
In 1997 my wife and I visited Corsica to peruse the old issues of the Harrison/Corsica Globe, doing research on the history of Dutch-Indian relations. Mary Neugebauer was extremely nice and helpful. I would be interested in any stories (written or taped), clippings, papers, photographs, etc. on the history of relations between the Dutch-Americans of Douglas County and their Native neighbors. The research will result in a publication and an exhibition on the Iowa and Dakota Dutch to be shown in the U.S. and in Holland. Any individual contribution will be explicitly acknowledged. My e-mail address is:  hovens@rmv.nl

Pieter Hovens, Ph.D., Curator of the North American Department, National Museum of Ethnology, P.O. Box 212, 2300 AE Leiden, The Netherlands.

santucci

Greetings from Gloria Spaans Van Bemmel Class of 75 

Date: December 10, 1999
I am interested in finding the addresses of my classmates for 1941.  My E-Mail address is leevan@uswest.net.  Nice WEB site keep it going. Still brown up here in ND.

Lee Vander-Linden 

Date: November 23, 1999
Congratulations to the 1999 State B football champs.  Wish we could have a playoff between this year's team and the great CHS team of '68.  Too bad they didn't have state playoffs then.  We'll be watching for you in the State B basketball tourney in March.

Mary DeVries O'Neill, Class of '68 

Date: November 23, 1999
Congratulations Comets on another state championship. It is great to see you working so hard and then seeing the rewards.

Leah  R

Date: November 10, 1999
Congratulations Comets on another state championship.    It is great to see you working so hard and then seeing the rewards.  Everyone is so proud of you.

Jamie Eggers

Date: October 31, 1999
Well, since "Red" has commented, and my Aunt Mabel has been invoked, I think I ought to check in, also. Just want everyone to know that the class of '59 HAD their reunion, and it was certainly good fun. Of course, when you were the best class, that's easy to do. Please, if someone reads this, say hi to Aunt Mabel and also Cora Beukelman, my very own Mom and Corsica "fixture." I wish those two ladies would stop playing Scrabble long enough to get into email!!

Maryanne Beukelman Ward

Date: October 19, 1999
HELLO, TO ALL I JUST DISCOVERED THE GREATEST SMALL TOWN WEB PAGE IN THE STATE.  IT REALLY IS IMPRESSIVE. IT IS ALWAYS WITH PRIDE THAT I SAY "MY HOME TOWN IS CORSICA"  TO THE FOOTBALL TEAM-LET'S NOT STOP UNTIL YOUR THE CHAMP'S

RED BEUKELMANt

Date: October 11, 1999
This is a super great website and totally made me smile!!! I did click on the website to your unofficial "sister city", which looked very interesting except I couldn't (sacre bleu!) read French!!!! :)  Keep up the good work!!!!!

Amy Sue de Groot

I have been watching the progression of this web site.  It is a site that always puts a smile on my face.  I enjoy being able to read how people are doing.

Amy Shaw
Portland, OR

Date: September 28, 1999
Terri & Allan Van Roekel are having a great time in Beaufort, SC.  They are shrimping and crabbing.

Toni Smith

Date: September 28, 1999
The William & Antonia Plooster Family Reunion is being planned for July 2000 at Dakota Wesleyan College in Mitchell, S.D. More information will be posted after the first of the year. Plan now to attend!

Suzi and Myron Plooster

Date: September 24, 1999
CHS Students:  Have a great Homecoming Week!!!!

Enjoy yourselves and play hard!!!!

Go COMETS!!!!!!!!!

Jamie Eggers

Date: September 8, 1999
HELLO FROM MICHIGAN, IF YOU SEE MABEL DEJONGE TELL HER THAT HER GRANDSON SAYS HELLO!!!  
P.S. NICE WEB SITE

RYAN MINNAAR

Date: August 26, 1999
Just admiring the Corsica Homepage and thinking how surprised the pioneers in Harrison and early Corsica would be to see all the news.  Nice work.

Dave Rodenhuis, grandson of "the Doktor" (Corsica, 1905-1934)
Kansas City, MO

Date: August 22, 1999
Bonjour
Here in the sunny Island of Corsica (France) we manufacture great farmhouse Corsican Cheeses made from sheep and goats. details at:  http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gastronome/Corse/

Ange SANTONI

Date: August 15, 1999
Hello... just found your Corsica homepage on the internet. Nice to see the pictures of Myron's hometown. Would love to see some of the old historical photos of the town and people. Enjoyed the page.

Hello... to CHS Alumni.  I can be reached at the following e mail address. mplooste@du.edu

Suzi and Myron Plooster, Boulder, CO