Giesbrecht Family

My paternal grandparents were C.V. (Cornelius) Giesbrecht (1880-1956)and Katharina Fast Giesbrecht (1883-1966). They moved from Waldheim, Saskatchewan Canada to Winton, California in 1911. They had planned to settle at Los Molinos, near Chico, but the Sacramento River flooded there and the mosquitoes were causing an out-break of illnesses. So, they traveled on by train and settled "on the desert," a small community that was just getting started. They had four small children traveling with them, along with his parents, C.D. Giesbrecht (1844-1925) and Helena (Lena) Veer Giesbrecht (1853-1942) and brother, J.V. (Jacob) Giesbrecht (1887-1980) and wife Eva Alice Hardin Giesbrecht (1890-1966).
See more pictures of this Giesbrecht family at flickr.
My grandparents and some other family members are buried in the Willows Cemetery in Glenn County, CA. Here is the link to the tombstone pictures.
My family is on the "Grandma" database that the California Mennonite Historical Society has available on CD. Information on this CD comes from church records, census records and from genealogists. A branch of this family (Deveer) is traced back to the 1500s in the Netherlands.
Who is eligible to be included in this database? Members from the Mennonite Church records in Russia and Prussia; all their ancestors and all their descendants and their spouses. Currently there are more than 941,000 individuals in the file. For more information click here.
Then click on the "Grandma CD-Rom Project."