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Cemetery Updates-Manitowoc County

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Friday – August 10
Added marriages for Ernst/Otillia Pfingsten, Alvin/Norma, Joseph/Ester,
Christ/Hilda, Walter/Lydia Zimmermann
Added Social Security Death Index dates to the following people:
#2
Alma Knutsen, Edwin Knutson
#5
Julia Knutson
#7
Frances Schamburek
#16
Peter Bradley
#26
Frank Oswald, John Remiker, Katharine Swetlik
#30 Click to continue »

Deaths and Marriages Manitowoc County

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Thursday – August 9
Added death info for Margaret Rank in Died Manitowoc co./buried elsewhere
Added a probate notice for John Wolfram in “Published court notices”
Added marriage notice from newspaper for Michael Kuhl/Margaret Rupplinger
Added marriage notice from newspaper for J.H.W. Colby/Emily Jones
Added census information from the newspaper to the 1850 census
Added 2 photos of Antoinette Bies Abraham in marriages
Added photo of Annie Bies to bios.
Added obit in #43 for Arleine Kohout

Wednesday – August 8
#39
Added to John/Mary Seibel entry
#X
Added to John Seibel entry

Schwoerer Backhaus wedding

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Tuesday – August 7
Added a wedding photo of Nicolaus/Katherine Schwoerer Backhaus and a separate photo of Katherine link in marriages.
I checked the immigrant passenger ship list and the address was wrong. I had .org and it’s a .net. I fixed it so it works properly now.
Added mar. announcement for Alexander Altenbach/Francisca Peters to marriges

Added death info. to Charlotte Pergande entry in the death index.

Fixed the Emma Rabenhorst photo so it shows up.

#21
Raymond Meyer
#32
Norbert Liebergen
Moved two Joseph Gries from cem. X to #32
#44
Elizabeth Barnes
#57
obits for Peter Stein, Marie Stein info from death cert. for Lizzie Schmitt
#60
Moved George Knier from cem. X to #60

#89B
Eliza Schmitt death info

Died/Buried elsewhere
John Mayer

Bever Family History

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Monday – August 6
added a link to the Bever family history in “Family Histories on the web”

#43
Added a lot of tombstone photos that were sent in by Becky, surnames:
Bolen, Braun, Chrapikowski/a, Donahue, Fagan, Garthaus, Gerle, Hessel, Holly, Jacobs,
Kennedy, Kocourek, Kolanczyk, Majkowska, Rehbein, Reichert, Roemer, Scholten, Seidl
Sladky

#44
Moved Juliet Towsley from cem. X to #44
clarified Mrs. Smart entry
added obit for Lester Matejovetz
Gundhild Hoen/Gunild Haines entries are probably the same person/made notations at entries

#89A
Added obits for Knute and Julia Toston

New Cemetery Entries Milwaukee

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

I added new entries to the following cemeteries:

066 St. Stephen Catholic
050 Lincoln Memorial Cemetery
019 Good Hope Cemetery
084 Forest Hill Memorial
020 Arlington Park

Relabled 082 as Oak Creek Community Church cemetery rather than just Oak Creek Community cemetery

Cemetery Tombstone Photographers Wanted

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

If anyone has a digital camera, some rechargeable batteries and the time, I sure would like to get more photos. Pick a cemetery and go for it. I usually take a long photo of the tall stones then immediately take close ups of the inscriptions so I know what tall stone goes with which inscriptions. One of those dummy Click to continue »

Polish Deaths and Pioneers Online

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Thanks to Karen Duffy I have added a Polish name obituary index to the site. The index is of death notices or articles that appeared in the Polish Newspaper Kuryer Polski. This index of deaths begins with January 1900 and is now currently in 1925. More Click to continue »

Obituary Additions

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Sunday – August 5….where is August going???? It’s the 5th already! AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
Added obits for:
#44
Norman Klein, Lawrence Mason, Gladys Raduenz, Clara Schroeder
#21
Clara Schwoerer
#81
Dorathea Radder
#82
Friederich Giese, William May Sr., Emil Schultz
#83
Margaret Richart, Theresa Richart
#84
Nick Balz, Katherine Jugenheimer, Katharina Reichert, Theodore Reichert
#85
Gottfried Spann Sr.

Died/Buried Elsewhere
Anna Reichert, Peter Reuther, Harry Toepel

X:
Adolph Gospodarek

Manitowoc Obituaries

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Added 2 Reedy obituaries in #16

Added tombstone photos to cem. #44 for these surnames:
Braasch, Christensen, Cyr, Durgin, Findlater, Flint, Haelfrisch, Hartl, Hubbard Jentsch, Joyce, Klein, Konecny, Lennox, Mason, Morse, Nemetz, Pfeifer, Toombs Vetting, Williams, Willis.

Added many tombstones photos for cems #29 and #34 thanks to Becky.

Added Haese tombstones photos to cem. #44 and a Sladky stone photo to #43 thanks to Becky.