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Mary Johannsen remains one of the most interesting people in this family line because the strongest evidence now points to one woman appearing in two major chapters of life. First, she appears in Cook County, Illinois, in the Rossow family, and later she appears in Shawano County, Wisconsin, in the Schlorff household. The key clue is that the Russow children later appear with William Schlorff, which strongly supports the idea that Mary Johannsen Rossow and Mary Johannsen Schlorff were the same person. TG324786

This matters because it helps rebuild the family line in a careful way instead of forcing the wrong Europe-to-America match. Older clues pointed toward Tondern, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland, but the American records now appear stronger than that earlier identification. At this stage, the best-supported conclusion is that Mary was born in November of eighteen sixty-eight, immigrated from Deutschland, and became part of a family story that moved from Chicago to Wisconsin. The exact names of her parents still need stronger proof.

The next step is to focus on the records most likely to name her parents directly, especially a Wisconsin death certificate, obituary, burial record, probate record, or a marriage record connected to William John Ludwig Schlorff. That is what could finally move this line from a strong working theory to a nearly complete proof trail. To read the entire blog post, visit j03.page, spoken as jay zero three dot page. TG324786 TG742018