At Goodwill I bought a book for the 80th Anniversary of the Salem Evangelical Church, Waukesha, 1933. I have been adding pages to the church section including history, pastors, membership. More coming as time permits.
John sent in some more transcriptions from various Milwaukee Cemeteries. This time adding surnames starting with the letter L to the following cemeteries:
Greenwood, Temple Menora, Forest Home, St. Matthias, St. John Lutheran (old), St. John, St. Martin
You may get to the homepage of the site and find a whole bunch of stuff is missing. I have spent the last couple days reorganizing the site. Partially because people complained they couldn’t find things, also because I wanted to see if a reorganization will help in the search engines. I am hoping creating pages that are targeted completely at one subject will help.
I have also added more resources, links and how tos in various sections.
Be sure to check it out! Feel free to give me your feedback or ask if you can’t find something.
I recently received an inquiry asking me if the Pewaukee Sanatorium was an insane asylum or a TB Hospital. Not knowing the answer, I started to do some research. I eventually discovered it was a TB Sanatorium.
In my research I discovered the state Tuberculosis hospital was located in Wales, Waukesha County.
I was also able to come up with a wealth of information on Tuberculosis Sanatoriums in the entire state of Wisconsin circa 1905-1919.
http://www.linkstothepast.com/waukesha/tbsanitor.html
In this section you will find:
List of TB Sanatoriums 1916
List of TB Sanatoriums 1919 (with more recent facilities (after 1919) listed at the bottom)
Background of TB In Wisconsin
Criteria for Selecting a TB Hospital Location
Feel free to link to it as appropriate. If you have any other information or photos you would like to add feel free to contact me.
My focus will be on cemeteries for the next few weeks, perhaps entirely through the summer. I would like to see if I can find more on the histories of some of the cemeteries. I have been having good luck so far, just looking online. There are a few obscure cemeteries I know nothing about, so I am hoping I come across at least a tidbit of information for them.
The past few days I updated all the cemeteries. Mostly I optimized the text for the search engines. I noticed the pages weren’t as high on the search lists so I did a little tweaking so when you people search for a certain cemetery you find it.
I updated a few cemeteries too, but forgot to keep track of which ones I added interments to. Use the search feature on the site for your surname. If it is there it should come up in the list.
I added more listings to the Milwaukee cemeteries
044, 003, 045, 039, 050, 017
To make it a bit easier I am also going to list the name:
Graceland, Holy Sepulcher, Green Tree Meadoes (just a brief history), Evergreen, Lincoln Memorial (Wanderers Rest), Memorial United Methodist
I have been trying to boost up the listings in the cemeteries as much as I can. The cemeteries are so large, it is difficult to get all of the dead without the actual cemetery records. If anyone has access to genealogy libraries or archives and would want to transcribe data, let me know. There is a lot of data available, just not enough time to complete it all.
I added a few more cemeteries and entries online today.
New entries can be found in:
052, 082,083,086,097,085
In adding the Latitude and Longitude to the cemetery listing this morning, I came across a new cemetery in Greenfield. Greenfield Park. It is located right near the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad tracks Between Greenfield golf course and Greenfield Park. I don’t know if it is still in existance or called something different now. It is a nice day. I am going to try and find it and see if I can gain entrance for transcribing the tombstones if they are still present.
I added a bunch more Ks to the same cemeteries as yesterday.
I also started adding the transcriptions of another new cemetery. Trinity Evangelical Lutheran. This cemetery is actually located in Ozaukee county about 8 blocks north of the county line. I have included it because some Town of Milwaukee residents are buried here.
John typed up a bunch of Ks for Milwaukee Cemeteries. The following cemeteries have new entries:
095,080,046,043,034,063,107,064 ,059,001,062
The transcription for St. Jerome’s (151) is complete as far as I have information. This is an active cemetery so more recent burials and the much older burials may not be shown.