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Mennonite delegates on a similar visit in 1874 returned to Russia and encouraged many,
including Dirksen families, to immigrate into the Dakota Territories.
Mennonite records reveal most of the Dutch, Prussian, Russian and early South Dakota history of Dirksens. Seventh Day Adventist records reveal much of Pioneer Dirksen history in North Dakota. United States and Russian census records, Bureau of Land Management records, county court records, reports from living descendants, related genealogies and the bottomless well of the Internet provide more data. The work of Alan Peters and Jay Hubert has provided the essential genealogical reference called Genealogical Registry And Database of Mennonite Ancestry (GRANDMA). The following people have made essential contributions to this Dirksen history:
Kathy
Sperling
Lillian
Thiesen
Beverly
Phillips
Marvin
Dirksen
Robert
Guenther
Ivadel
Peterson
Glenn
Penner
Gary
Shearer
Alvin
Gaede
Joyce
Pitts
Jeanette
Fiskum
Cliff
Wall
Kevin
Enns-Rempel
Eileen
Dirksen
Judy
Evans
George
Barron
Eugene
Epp
Russell
Duerksen

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