Added newer (after 1940) obits for:
Darwin Andrews #32
Verna M. Ernst-Ambruso #33
Edwin C. Kattreh #82
Viola Kattreh #84
Julie A. Berger #89A
George Casavant #89D
Steven Allie #89D
Gertrude C. Christensen #89D
Marilyn A. Ciha #89D
Cleopha Anderson #89D
Alex Karls, Jr. Died/bur. elsewhere
Mathilda Retterath Died/bur. elsewhere
Lorraine Christel-Kestell Died/bur. elsewhere
William F. Keppel discovered some glass negatives tossed out in a dump after the Groh Photography studio closed. He saved and preserved the negatives many years ago. He must have been a very special man to have saved so much history of Sheboygan County.
William has since passed away and now his son Bob is carrying on with a dream that William had. A vast amount of time has been put into this preservation as these negatives are being photographed, digitalized and contributed to the Sheboygan County Genealogy site by Bob Keppel where Debie is putting them online. Some are unidentified. Be sure to check out the site. Perhaps you can match a photo and give one of the unidentified photos a home.
The obituaries have been pouring in. Shari has been steadily adding obituaries.
Saturday - January 13 Added obits for:
Frederick Groh(1988) #21 George Hartmann(2005) #21 Irene Henry(1954) #21 Ralph T. Meyer(2006) #32 Mary Hartmann(1983) #43 David Grohskoph(1961) #82 Christian Hein(1953) #82 (more…)
I added Galeher bio to the 1881 bios section.
Added obituary for Katherine (Lindsay) Hall. She lived in Milwaukee with her husband William Earl. Her father and brother lived in Kiel, Manitowoc County.
I found some Marine bios in a book “Portrait and Biographical Record of Muskegon and Ottawa Counties Michigan Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of the Presidents of the United States. Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co. 1893. Lori, a volunteer transcriber, is typing them up for me. I added her finished pieces to the site.
Names include:
George W. Aiken
Capt. Seth Lee
Capt. William Mees
Hiram Hunter
Frank Scott
You can find them by going to the Great Lakes Marine site.
For those of you who are researching Military Veterans, I found a Gravesite locator database put together by the Veterans Administration.
Search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private (more…)
Good News for Wisconsin Genealogy Researchers. According to a recent article posted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin is now required to digitize their records. Because of new federal anti-terrorism laws passed to prevent identity theft, records that were merely hand written paper documents are not going to be digitized so that backup copies can be created. What this usually means for researchers is that indexes will become available and finding records will be much more efficient.
You can read more about the new project here:
Dee-Dee has volunteered to do lookups for the North Prairie Cemetery, Waukesha County. She is fascinated with cemeteries and will also be updating the site listing as time permits. She is also able to do lookups at Wales Cemetery and Mukwonago. She has a digital camera and can take tombstone photos as weather permits. You can find her information on the Waukesha Lookup Page.
Monday - January 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Added obits for Binversie, Blatz, Bonde, Broeckert and Burkart in cemetery #21. Added 1900 obits for these people: Heinrich Klein #13, Helena Breuer #43, Emma Korzinek #43, Elizabeth Radl #43 Katharine Erickson #44, Jennie Frey #44, Geo. Hackman #44, John C. Brandt #44 Dorothea Herrman #44, Mary McNamara #44, Joseph Enderly #44, Heinrich Ansorge #44 Mrs. P. Lesch #64, Heinrich Meineke #89A, Joseph Rehrauer #89B John Fetzer Died/bur. elsewhere (more…)