I'm looking for a family hook-up to Katherine Franken who in 1918 sent a note from Ottumwa, Iowa at the birth of my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law's great grandmother was Mary Franken who was born in 1845 in Prussia/Germany and who married August Hoeft, also born in Prussia/Germany. I would like to follow up on the Franken line.

I also found an early 1900 letter from James Franken of Utah.

Does anyone connect?