Links to the Past

Monday - October 30 I have a new lookup volunteer!! I have her listed in the volunteer section of the main page. Click on Mary Lou’s name and welcome her to the site. I made a new page for people who died elsewhere and were buried there, but have relatives in Manitowoc co. It might help you find where those missing relatives went. The link is in the death section of the main page. Added 1903 obits for these people: August Reis #7, Lina Mill #8, Friedrich Wilhelm Kolm #8, Maria Schill #13 Minne Kotyk #36, Ferdinand Veith #43, William Fairbairn #44, David Michelson #44 Augusta (more…)

Friday - October 27 Added 1903 obits for these surnames: Maria Leonhardt #8, Joseph Haas #26, Ralph Peterson #27, Katharine Specht #35 Nellie O’Hara Judge #43, Elisa Moeskes #43, Carl Holzknecht #44, Charles Levenhagen #44 Glenore Grun #44, Fred Pautz #44, Gottfried Lishka #44, Catherine Albrecht #44 Carl Mueller #44, (more…)

Thursday - October 26 I added more years to the birth announcements in the newspaper.

Wednesday - October 25 I added more years to the birth announcements in the newspaper.

Tuesday - October 24 Added obits from 1906 for these people: Gunder Gunderson #2, Knut Vrolson #2, Katherina (more…)

I am looking for transcribers to help transcribe the 1907 Volume of Haight’s Waukesha County Memoirs. It runs from pg 345-701. If you have an interest in transcribing please let me know. The more people we can get, the less each of us has to do. Even one or two pages would helpful.

Let me know.

I put in a new page which lists some of Milwaukee’s early breweries. As time permits I will transcribe the section on the breweries. If anyone is interested in the brewing industry and wants to volunteer to type up about 15 or so pages from the History of Milwaukee 1881, please let me know. I have the book and can send you images of the pages.

For those of you who wonder why I take the time to type up the information rather than just put up the pages, it is primarily because the words are found when looking up names in the search engines. The images are not found as easily if at all.

I also added the history of the Valentine Blatz Brewery in this section and the Torchiani & Kremer bottlers.

(The marriages I put on Saturday (the 21st) were for 1906, not 1892..Whoopsie) I added a page for births that were announced in Der Nord Westen. I have 1906 done and plan to add the other years. The link is in the marriage section just under the microfiche births. Hopefully you will be able to match some with the microfiche births..hopefully. Just the father’s name was given..I guess the mother didn’t have anything to do with the births. At times they said “Mr. and Mrs.” Added these marriage announcements from Der Nord Westen for 1906 - groom/bride Bartel/Dusold, Barth/Kurth, (more…)

Monday - October 16 Added these marriage announcements from Der Nord Westen for 1892 - groom/bride Ammann/Lindner, Anderson/Busse, Arzbacker/Rollau, Basken/Bock, Bausch/Drum, Beitzel/Reis Bernhardt/Mantel, Boettcher/Kurz, Braasch/Schwalbach, Drews/Miller, Duhnke/Paulus Feldman/Mallmann, Foster/Singer, Habek/Engelbrecht, Hacker/Handl, Handl/Schroeder Hendries/Bull, Herbst/Hintze, Herman/Zingsheim, Holsen/Krummer, Jaap/Scherer, Jorsch/Topic Kadow/Blockelman, Karnopp/Gelbke, Kattreh/Laudna, King/Ohler, Kirst/Rhein, (more…)

Wednesday - October 18 Added obits for 1906 from Der Nord Westen for these people: Eva Gerber #6, John Kubicek #18, Franz Mathes #22, Henriette Winter #31, Anton Kazda #36 Mary Kirchen #43, Christine Eiermann #43, Colletta Tauschek #43, Stella Tadych #43a Ida Gruetzmacher #44, Ellen Mallet #44, Charles Tripple #44, Fred. Ladwig #44 Anna Kretche #44, Karel(Charles) Vondracek #54, Ole Hanson #44, Jens Olson #44 John Edwards #44, Christian Schmalfeldt #44, Fred W. Bock #44, Edgar Spiegel #44 (more…)

From the Milwaukee Journal Posted: Oct. 12, 2006

The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society announced Thursday that they are making nearly 500,000 historical books and documents available (more…)

I added to the J and K marriage & family files thanks to Sherry transcribing. I have merged these in to the other marriages. The listing is by husband’s name. The Bride’s name is cross referenced back to the groom’s surname.
The following surnames were added:

AUENT, BARTELT, BAUER, BILLHOFER, BLOOD, BLUT, BRUMBACH, BUTTER, CASTELL, CHILDS, CLIFFORD, CORF, CORKIN, CUSHMAN, DAVIS, DERR, DIETZE, DOLPHIN, EATON, EBEL, EILE, EMMIG, (more…)