Thanks for the e-mail. While doing research for the Halter/Halder family history, I came across the marriages from St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Devils Lake, taken from the Heritage Review, Volume 16, February 1986. It listed a Regina VOLK who married a John Neis on 6 June 1927. She was the daughter of Michael and Caroline Dietz VOLK of Elsass, Russia. This information had been sent to me by my Aunt in Devils Lake and next to Regina's name she had penciled in "this is my dad's cousin". So she is saying that my grandfather, John Halder was a cousin to Regina Volk. born a Volk got changed to Folk
became a nun: Sister M. Beatrice