Michael Lee Kohus Sr.

Son of Herbert Bernard Kohus Jr. 1917- 2009 and Virginia Louise Mihm 1921-2003,husband of Caroline Kay (Hargis Kohus, father of Michael Lee Kohus Jr. and Melinda Kay Kohus and a grandfather!

So, you've found my website among the billions and billions of other websites on the internet. That either means in your search engine you either misspelled the word Geology as Genealogy, or you are here on purpose. If that be the case, we must share an interest in genealogy, and may even share an ancestor or two. I don't know exactly when I started working on my family tree. I remember haunting the Cincinnati Library when I was a teenager and being amazed at finding my grandparents in early city directories. Those were the days when it took years to collect the same amount of genealogical information you can gather today with the aid of a computer in just a few of days. About 1996 the genealogy bug started to really bite, and like most my interests in life go, it soon turned into a passion before becoming an obsession. I am lucky to have an understanding wife who didn't mind me spending a few thousand hours in libraries, LDS Family Research centers and swapping information with other similarly obsessed persons via the internet.

One day I realized that I had collected a fair amount of information on my family's past, satisfying a lot of curiosity, but of course I could never gather enough information to tell as complete a story as I would prefer. After all, isn't that what a good case of obsession is all about? Unfortunately there will always be another clue lurking around the corner and it's probably just what I'm looking for to complete more of the puzzle that seems to have no end. I thought about what to do with all the information I had collected and organized.  Well........let's just say files I had collected and somewhat organized.... OK, I'll admit, my filing needs work, so let's just say I had a very large box of stuff but I kept it neatly in one location. So anyway, what I am trying to say is:  This website is a way to share with family what I have found, and hopefully, collect a few more pieces of the puzzle from anyone caring enough to share what they may know about our ancestors. This website is always under construction and it appears like that may be the case for quite awhile. Response from family and friends is keeping me quite busy, cataloging  records, old photographs and stories, etc.  Well, that's about it.  If you have anything of interest, or see something interesting on the site, I have an e-mail link on several of the pages. Feel free to write. I hope you stick around and look at some of the info I've displayed herein. I hope you find knowing about your family history as interesting as I do. Glad you stopped by.

Photo - I'm smiling though I'm really, really cold. The Cog Train, on top of Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, Colorado (circa 2007)

Mike (circa 1967)