Re: Bartell, Bartels in Calif.
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Re: Bartell, Bartels in Calif.
8/11/99
my father is lawson w. Bartell of Fresno, CA.
His father was Henry J. Bartell of Kern County, California. H.J.s last name was "Bartel" until my grandma Selma Classen changed it to help distinguish her Bartel on Coffee Road from all the other Bartels on Coffee Road.
Mennonite Brethren by way of Kansas by way of somewhere around the Volga River (Molotschna I think).