This posting was from another mailing list. For those of you interested in cemetery restoration projects, this is your chance to help. Time Warner and The History Channel are sponsoring a ‘Save Our History’ grant award. A cemetery made the list of finalists. Your vote could be the difference between restoring the cemetery or (more…)
My cousin and I are actively seeking males with the surname Jonas to participate in the Jonas DNA study. If you are interested in more details please email me or go to Familytreedna.com for more details.
I broke down and finally decided to redo the website design. It is way over due…I know I am sorry!
The new design is Section 508 compliant which means those that may be visually impaired can use different settings and still see everything on the website. The new design will be done with one header and one footer which will make any future design changes much easier. Milwaukee will be a different color than Waukesha so that you will quickly know that you have traveled over 124th and across the county line.
It will take some time for me to redo all the pages so I am letting you have a sneak peak at the new design. I welcome your feedback. If there is anything you would like to see me do a little bit differently, let me know and I will see what I can do.
The new design can be found here.
I have a new lookup resource available to me. At the conference I attended I purchased a book compiled by Judy Vezzeni and proofread by members of the Waukesha County Genealogical Society, published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entitled Index to Waukesha County Marriages 1846-1907.
If you would like a lookup done, I ask that you first go to the Wisconsin Historical Society Website Vital Records Search database and lookup the name. You can look up either the groom’s name or bride’s. If you find it in the index, then email me. The book has a little bit more information than the online index in that it gives the parents’ names. You still will have to have someone lookup the actual record if you wish to have a copy.
The book only covers registered marriages in Waukesha County. If it is not in the database, the record will most likely not be in my book either. Although there are a few marriages (very few) marriages that were listed in the county records but do not appear in the state records.
I just got back from attending a 2 day conference sponsored by the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society. It was a great two days! I learned a lot more about different techniques of searching, where my resources are and best of all got to meet some neat people!
What did I learn?
Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak was the main speaker. She spoke on a lot of very interesting topics which included: Reverse Genealogy: Finding Your Lost Loved Ones; Building a Village-Based Community; and two seminars on DNA in Genealogy.
James Hansen-the reference librarian and genealogical specialist at the Wisconsin State Historical Society spoke about resources and searching at the Society Library and some techniques for getting around the burned 1890 census.
Reverend David McDonald spoke about Protestant religions which helped me understand who merged with who and where records of some of those lost churches might be.
All in all it was a good couple of days!
I added Obituaries to the Milwaukee site for:
Cemetery X
REHM, LAUN, DUERRWAECHTER, WRIGHT, CORDS, MARTIN, WRIGHT
Buried Elsewhere
STRIEBEL, BRIESKE
Forest Home #043
OSTHOFF, GUTENKUNST, KURZ
Union Cemetery #070
RUSCH
Holy Cross #047
KRAMPE
Valhalla
VOLAND
This will be the last of the Waukesha County obits for a while. I will be working on Milwaukee County next.
Cemetery X
SHOCK, FRITZ, VAN RENSSALAER, BARTLETT, SARGEANT, STOCKMAN, MAYNARD, EDWARDS, GRANSON, BACON, BARNDT, HILL, ROSECRANS, PICKELMANN, AITKEN, FRANTZ, OHRMUND
Northview Cemetery #145
STODDARD
Oak Knoll #92
YOUMANS
German Evangelical Lutheran Church Records
Changed the Bramen name to Bremen based on the obit published.
Added obit.
St. Albans #56
WEAVER
Buried Elsewhere
ADAMS
LYMANS to the marriages
BEGGS to the marriages
A few more obits added thanks to Barb.
Cemetery X
BROTHERS, BARBER, RATLOFF, WALTON, NICHOLS, EITLEMEIR, CONNELL
Prairie Home #44
SHULTIS
I added a bunch more pre-1907 obituaries. It looks like I am getting close to the end of the batch. Once I am done with these I will move over to Milwaukee County and put online some of the genealogy tidbits people have been sending me. Thanks to everyone who has sent submissions!
Cemetery X
VINCENT, WILLIAMS, EVANS, KENDALL, IRVING,SPENCER, KERR, ERTLEMEYER, STAUB, THOMAS, ORMSBY, WELCH, WIGGINTON, NELSON, RAY, BRADEN, FALTER, HOLMES, SACKETT
Oak Knoll #92
PORTER
Buried Elsewhere
BLUE
North Prairie #44
Moved from cemetery X Carlin
Sunday - Happy Easter!! Took some tombstone photos today for cemetery #20 and have them online. Hope to get back before long and photograph the rest of it.