Links to the Past

Forgot to let you know of the additions online for Prairie Cemetery. Dee Dee has been transcribing the records directly from the cemetery and we are putting them online. I have put up the east section, the center section and now she is working on the west section.

There are cemetery records 1899-date. A fire unfortunately destroyed the earlier records. At the Association office, there are some obituaries tacked on to the back of the index card. Dee Dee can get those for you if you are interested. You can contact her directly from the lookup page. After she finishes with a couple other cemeteries in the area, she will come back to getting the obits online from the association office. We thought it would be better to get more area names online than to rehash the same ones.

Thanks Dee Dee for all you are doing for Waukesha County!

Forgot to mention this is cemeter 44 she is working on.

Over the years, many have asked about the State Industrial School for Boys.

I contacted the Waukesha Historical Society to find out what records they may have.

Our collection contains individual records for the Wisconsin State
Industrial School for Boys from 1906 to 1923.

–Volume 1: Reports on individual students 1906-1909

–Volume 2: Reports on individual students 1920

–Volume 3: Reports on individual students 1921

–Volume 4: Reports on individual students 1922

–Volume 5: Reports on individual students 1923

They also suggested that since the school was a state school, perhaps contact the Wisconsin Historical Society (www.WisconsinHistory.org) to find out if they have any additional records.

I also have some history on my site at:
http://www.linkstothepast.com/waukesha/scindboy.html

Hope this helps!

Added these obits from 1900: August Prowinsky #9, Alvina Keune #10, John Doersch #10, H.H. Conrad Stock #11 Katharen Wegner #16, Jacob Braun #38, Dau. of Gustav Herzog #43, Nickolas Ollinger #43 Ella Kessen #43, Anna Fuchs #44, Vaclav Hruska #44, Herman Lohe #44, Wilhelm Genz #44 Sophia Braun #44, Wilhelm Wieboldt #44, Joseph Lango #44, Charles Haverland #44 Edna Olson #44, Carolina Rusboldt #44, Joseph Biegel #44, William Hagenow #50 Ludwig Vogelsang #70, Wilhelm Dill #73, Amalia Koch #89A, Fred Hartung #89A Hedwig Lenhardt #89A, Louis Gauthier #89B Jacob Leissen (more…)

Friday - January 26 The transcriber of church records notified me she had made an error that was passed on to me…she had written a set of parents down from the preceding entry. I fixed it..in marriages the parents of Cornelius is Adam Seipel and Katharine Herr instead of Heisdorf. Any researchers into this line please accept our apologies and please correct it. Added these obits from after 1930: Agnes Fecteau #32, Adeline Flemal #32, Paul Frenz #32, Alex Flemal #32, Leslie Gauthier #32 Ruth Glandt #32, Benjamin Gauthier #33, Clara Franz #43, Ronald Foerg #43 Frank Fetzer #44, Eugene (more…)

I just split a bunch of files, so if some don’t work, click refresh on your browser and it will pull up the new files and not just get the page out of your history. If anyone finds something out of alphabetical order, or a picture missing with just a little red X showing, let me know and I’ll fix it. So many steps are involved in putting on a photo it’s easy to miss one, and sometimes I get alphabetical order burn-out causing me to mis-file. Added newer (after 1920) obits for: Clarence DeGodt #32, Olive Huinker #32, Michael Deprey #32, Charlotte Dodge #32, Kenneth Dodge #32, Robert Lambert #43, (more…)

It takes time to scan the obits, have the program read them so I can proofread and fix errors in the machine reading them and get them online for y’all Added newer (after 1920) obits for: Raymond Brown #32, Emil Cigler #32, Winifred Coenen #32, Donald Copeskey #32 Larry Copeskey #32, Arlene Capraro #32, Carol Deering #32, Athalene Cavanaugh #43, Robert Connor #43 Elroy Brick #44, Kenneth Cummings #44, Vernetta Ross #44, Derek Davey #44 Bette Dalebroux #63, Julia Brill #82 Edna Celle #89A, Gladys Daetz #89A, Francis DeFaut #89A Beatrice Ahrndt #89B June Blaha #89C, Lavern Bohm #89C, Fredrick Cowling #89C, Michael Christoffel #89C Lester Boutin #89D, Irene Boutin #89D, Bethel Bohm #89D, Isadore Belonger #89D Leonard Bodenstab #89D, Amelia Christoffel #89D, Benedict Coenen #89D, Archie Beitzel #89D Jean Coenen #89D, Walter Crabb #89D, Grace Culligan #89D, Marguerite Culligan #89D Wally Culligan #89D, Jean E. Czechanski #89D, Walter Czechanski #89D, Robert Ciha, Sr. #89D Lillian Ciha #89D, Delores Ciha #89D, Eugene Casavant #89D, John Cherney #89D William Copskey Died/bur. elsewhere, Brenda Webster Died/bur. elsewhere Meta Cole Died here/bur. elsewhere Moved Carl Kurth from cem. X to #44

We have a new helper on the site, Barb has graciously agreed to type up items for the Waukesha site. I hope to keep her busy with various additions for as long as she is willing to help.

Yesterday she sent in a transcript of an early article on Alexander Randall, the 6th Governor of Wisconsin. I have put it in the family section with a link to the bio. Names include: BEACH, VAN VECHTEN, THOMAS, and RANDALL.

She also typed up a small article on the Industrial school that I added to the bottom of the industrial School page.

Thanks Barb! We appreciate your help.

Added newer (after 1940) obits for: Dale Barta #16, Theresa Barta #16, Sylvia (Barta) Siehr #16, James Barta #16 Charles Bernier #18, Evalyne Bloedorn #32, Edna Baumann #32, Lily Arneman #33 Charles Beduhn #33, Joseph Blanchette #33, Frieda Hougen #33, John Ashenbrener #44 Edith Buege #44, Alice Anderle #63, Alan Barta #66, Irma Biel #66, Arvid Asplund #89A Bernice Becker #89A, Frank Beitzel #89A, Ramona Beth #89A, Walter Beth #89A William Boettcher #89A, Martha Boprey #89A, Lillian Baker #89C, Edna Berg #89C Herman Borchardt, Howard Barner #89D, Margaret Bateman #89D, Darlene Becker #89D Hulda Behrendt #89D, William Behnke #89D, Mildred Belonger #89D, Agnes Bodenstab #89D Wilbur Blaha #89D, Catherine Belonger #89D Edna Beaton Died/bur. elsewhere Herbert Beduhn Died/bur. elsewhere

Added newer (after 1940) obits for:
Evelyn Charney #26, Sylvia Bolzenthal #32, Dolores Boprey #32, Dolores Bruechert #32
Opal Anderson #32, Rudolph Anderson #32, Winifred Bruechert #32, Martin Busse #32
Ethel Bohm #33, Otto Bratz #33, Fern Bruechert #33, Alma Anthold #37
Matilda Armbruster #43, Ella Born #44, Julia Cizek #44, Esther Anderson #44
Earl Boehringer #89A, Julia Althen #89A, John Ammermann #89B, Eloise Boness #89C
Herman Boness #89C, Evelyn Bever #89C, Clarence Bever #89C, Dorothy Borchardt #89C
Lillian Bruechert #89C, Otto Bruechert #89C, Frank Bunzow #89C, John Ahrens #89C
Edward Bunke #89D, Mary Boeselager #89D, Anna Brouchoud #89D, Irene Brylski #89D
Johanna Brusky #89D, Ralph Ammerman #89D

Thanks to my transcriber I have added some transcriptions for some of the cemeteries. Surnames beginning with A-G has been added or updated to the following cemeteries:

St. Michaels (oo1), St. Johns (006), St. Johns (Old) (059), St. Martins (062), and St. Peter Emanuel (064)