This book is being prepared for the Brunken Reunion to be held on April 13-15, 2018 in Branson, Missouri.

Structure

The book is organized by family groups starting with maternal great-grandparents, John and Johanna (Plath) Brunken and Carsten and Margaret (Hollmann) Petersen.  The following chapters are about their descendants.  Pictures and stories are added to give more information about the people.  Many times the pictures include several generations and families.

Genealogy

The family group reports have been produced from the publically available database of the Kirmse Family Tree currently on Ancestry.com

Pictures and Stories

This stories and pictures in this book were originally taken from several blogs that I have been writing while doing family research.

• Grandma Brunken’s Album
• Hilda’s Album
• Dale’s Family Research

My family history files also contain related photographs, newspaper clippings and artifacts that were are in boxes along with other memorabilia, that I received from my parents and/or were shared by relatives as well as otherwise gathered during my family history research.

The plan is to include the stories and images of the items that pertain to the Oklahoma Brunkens in this book.

Help is Requested

If anyone knows of other related pictures and stories about the Oklahoma Brunken family members, I would appreciate receiving copies of them so that they can also be included.