I would like to Welcome Angela to our family of transcribers for the Links To The Past website. Angela has offered to help transcribe the Washington County Naturalization Index cards. If anyone would like to help on this project please let me know.
I added some names to the marriages for Washington County:
De Bar, Meuhr, Winderling
I added rosters for the Civil war in the military section. Lots of new names there.
I was sent a few additions for Pilgrims Rest Cemetery in Milwaukee.
I also have copies of some of the Zion United Church of Christ (also known as Evangelical Zion Kirche) death records and transcribed some. I have found that many of the deceased from this church were buried in Pilgrims Rest or Forest Home.
Names include:
Attenbech
Blankenburg
Geinler
Geissler
Haefner
Harchge (Harihge?)
Heinig
Henke
Jahnke
Jahnke
Klug
Knabe
Lobitz
Martens
Menzel
Nabakowski
Ruebner
Schauz
Schendel
Simon
Springer
Wall
William
Irvin sent in some photos of the Snider family in the Easton cemetery. I added them to the Adams County Website
I am currently planning on attending a Civil War Symposium in Fort Wayne Indiana at the Allen County Library on Friday and Saturday Oct. 8 and 9, 2010.
If any of my fellow Milwaukee researchers would like to tag along, I would welcome the company.
http://thing1.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/Military%20Symposium_2010.pdf
The Allen County library has a large collection of genealogy materials from all states. I have heard it is definitely worth the trip out there if one can go.
It is approximately 5-6 hours to drive out there (depending on Chicago Traffic). I don’t know when I will be leaving yet. It will either be Thursday or very early Friday to give me time to do research at the library at least for a few hours. (first session starts Friday at 2:30) (It will also depends on the other passengers).
If you are interested let me know. You would be responsible for all your own costs (admission, hotel, food, etc.) I am willing to split a room if you are comfortable with that.
Let me know by sending me an email, placing a comment below or calling 262-783-1620.
Ellen-
Research tip: If you’re planning to order Civil War pension or military service files from the National Archives, get your order(s) in soon. We were at the archives last week and the indication is they expect a sharp rise in the number of orders once the 150th anniversary of the Civil War officially arrives in April. This likely will increase the time it takes to fill orders.
Thank you to Civil War Roots for letting us know!
Hello,
For those of you who don’t know I recently acquired the GenWeb site for Washington County, Wisconsin.
I have been busy adding surnames to the site. In the past couple names the following names have been added.
You can visit the site at www.LinksToThePast.com/washington
ADAMS, AHLERS, ALBINGER, ALBRECHT, ALTENHOFEN, AMIDON, ANDERSON, ARNET, ASHWORTH
BACH, BAILEY, BAILEY, BARNEY, BASEMAN, BASTIAN, BASTIAN, BASTIAN, BAUER, BAUMGARTNER, BEAN, BECKER, BEER, BENNETT, BETTEN, BIERNER, BLECHA, BLINGS, BOCK, BODAN, BODEN, BOENITZ, Click to continue »
Here is a fun genealogy site.
http://genealogytranscriber.blogspot.com/
The author posts a signature online for you to transcribe. You can use it to beef up your skills in reading old handwriting.
For many of us with Czech/Bohemian ancestors, it seems that once they came over on the boat, we were to never hear of the old country again. It is difficult sometimes to find the exact city where they came from and therefore next to impossible to trace back further.
I just stumbled up a resource I did not know existed. I thought I would share it all with you.
I was at WI Historical Society working on a Bohemian project I am trying to track down what city they came from.
In her obit she said she was a member of the Western Bohemian Fraternal Association. I did some research on the association and they are a national group with lodges in communities around the nation.
Every month the association published a magazine relating to the Bohemians across the nation.
The publication was called Bratrsky Vestnik published from 1898 to Dec 1856. In July 1943 it was changed to Fraternal Herald. The publication is written in Czech most years but in later years they published both an English and Czech version.
The films are available through inter library loan.
Here is the URL from the Madison Library.
http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search_Arg=western%20bohemian%20fraternal%20association&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&PID=680vyeqAedLzOWgPEya2muyZFL&SEQ=20100806080218&SID=1
There are obituaries on some deceased members published in the magazine. The obits typically include where they came from in the old country 
In later years they also published a chart that listed payments of Mortuary Claims for the month.
Some good information in there if you are lucky enough to have a Czech/ Bohemian family member as a member.
Unfortunately my family still remains a mystery.
Not sure if you know it, but a wicket tornado went through the village of Eagle Waukesha County a few weeks ago. No federal subsidies were received because not enough “public” damage was done, although the cemetery was hit pretty hard.
There is a relief benefit being held for the families of Eagle August 8.
If you are in the area, be sure to attend!
Ellen-
This is a repost from Megan Smolenyak’s blog. Thanks Megan for the head’s up.
July 26, 2010
The latest from FamilySearch — it just keeps coming!
Millions of Historic Documents from Microfilms Now Emerging Digitally Online
FamilySearch’s microfilm conversion initiative is beginning to sail. Over 12 million digital images from thousands of microfilm, representing 8 countries, were published online for free viewing this month. FamilySearch’s online image viewer makes it easy for online patrons to view the newest digital images from Argentina, Costa Rica, France, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, and Spain.
This week the complete U.S. 1910 Federal Census name indexes for Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Missouri were also published online at FamilySearch’s Record Search pilot (FamilySearch.org, click Search Records, and then click Record Search pilot) and coming soon to Beta.FamilySearch.org.
See the chart below for the complete list of all the newly added or improved collections.
FamilySearch plans on digitizing and publishing online the bulk of its 2.4 million rolls of microfilm—representing 132 countries. In addition, it is now capturing millions of new images each year digitally “at birth” from its 185 field camera teams worldwide. It all translates to a steady stream of new digital image collections for genealogy enthusiasts to anticipate and enjoy.
Argentina, Buenos Aires, Province, Catholic Church Records, 1642–1931
1,824,476 New Images
Costa Rica, Church Records, 1595–1992
605,658 New Images
France, Coutances, Catholic Diocese, 1802–1907
87,000 Indexed Records Only
Luxembourg Civil Registration, 1793–1923
114,000 New Images
Mexico, Aguascalientes, Civil Registration, 1860–1950
438,725 New Images
México, Distrito Federal, Catholic Church Records, 1886–1933, Part 1
1,572,682 New Images
Mexico, Hidalgo, Catholic Church Records,1546-1963
1,605,822 New Images
Mexico, Tamaulipas, Church Records 1703-1964, Part 2
172,951 New Images
Netherlands, Noord-Holland Province Civil Registration 1811-1940
599,639 New Images
Netherlands, Noord-Holland, Amsterdam Civil Registration 1811-1940
576,189 New Images
Netherlands, Overijssel Civil Registration 1811-1952 -
496,541 New Images
Netherlands, Utrecht Province Civil Registration 1811-1950
347,867 New Images
Netherlands, Zeeland Civil Registration 1796-1940 -
497,188 New Images
Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Leiden Civil Registration 1812-1882
83,129 New Images
Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Rotterdam Civil Registration 1811-1942
273,199 New Images
Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, ‘s-Gravenhage Civil Registration 1811-1882
84,124 New Images
Puerto Rico Civil Registration, 1836–2001
3,255,102 New Images
Spain, Alicante, 1762–1921, Part 1
34,666 New Images
Spain, Barcelona Civil Registration, 1886–1936
265,084 New Images
Spain, Cordoba, Civil Registration, 1841–1870
63,198 New Images
Spain, Sevilla, Civil Registration, Archivo de la Diputacion de Sevilla, 1841–1882
76,939 New Images
Spain, Sevilla, Civil Registration, Archivo Municipal de Carmona, 1841–1871
15,512 New Images
Spain, Sevilla, Civil Registration, Archivo Municipal de Marchena, 1841–1870
7,237 New Images
Spain, Sevilla, Civil Registration, Archivo Municipal de Sevilla, 1841–1882
272,132 New Images
Spain, Valencia, Census, Archivo Municipal de Torrent, 1875–1912
2,462 New Images
Spain, Valencia, Municipal Census
59,312 New Images
