Day 96 - April 13th - Double Nickel RV Park, Waco, NE

No Motorhome Travelling today - Searching for Denice's Roots in Schickley, NE -- Successful!!Lazy morning as we knew we had lots of time. At about 10:00AM Denice called a first cousin once removed, Gerald Krause, to get some info on cemeteries in the area. She had also e-mailed a couple of other relations, and they all responded. Found that yesterday we had been looking in the wrong town, as they were buried in Schickley rather than Geneva, two towns about 10 miles apart. I also researched some info on the web as we have good WIFI here. The local county Web is very well done, and organized. So armed with a whole bunch of info, and printed plot maps, took the jeep and and drove back to Schickley, NE, about 40 miles. Drove around until we found the town cemetery. Not too difficult as the town is only about 6 blocks long by 6 blocks wide. As we now had good info with the printed plot map and relative names associated with each, we were able to locate with relative ease each of her ancestors. Of most importance to her were her Great-grandfather and Grand-mother, Henry Peter Krause and Louisa Kreger Krause. She took multiple photos, and I took back up ones just in case! Denice will now be able to document all of these into her "Family Tree". This is becoming a valuable document to us, and should be retained long term with our decendants. Denice has over 8000 names associated with our "Tree". Many, many days, weeks, months, and years of work researching all of these associations. Once finished at the cemetery it was near noon, so went back into town and to the local restaurant, Dawgs Cafe, where we ordered burgers. As with all small town cafes, they were big and very good. Listened to the local chatter about politics, weather, etc. Every small town has that type of atmosphere at the local gathering place. While paying the $10 for our two burgers, I engaged the local proprieter and owner in some local information about possible other living relatives of Denices. Seems that there are none remaining locally, that she could recall. We asked about other close by cemeteries, and she gave us directions to both the Luthern and Catholic ones a few miles from town. We went to both of them, but were unable to find any other headstones of interest.This did not disappoint Denice as we had already found about 25 that she was in some way related to. A very worth while trip, and one that my wife has wanted for a very long time. We had never been in this part of Nebraska before. Returned back to ELTORO in Waco NE. for dinner. Now tomorrow we will be back on the road Northward again. Had an e-mail from John and Brenda. They left Rockport this morning and made good time travelling over 400 miles today. Who knows, if they keep that rate up they may catch up with us!