Links to the Past

These names were added to the probate section:Hemmings, Byrnes, Wile, Williams, Casey, Otto, Sharpe, Maney, Barker, Bradley, Chapin, Watcher, Wiesner

The following were added as a link from the obit page and the cemeteries as noted below.

Cemetery X
Reynolds, Springer, Schaefer, Bowman, Smith, Elliott, Pluckhahn, Wilson

New Berlin Center #113
Hunkins

Prairie Home Cemetery #173
Roberson, Parker, Gray, Dorn

St. Peter and Paul, Duplainville #144
Knoebel

St. Joseph Waukesha #172
Peifer, Meidenbauer

Welsh Tabernacle #22
Davis

Vernon Center #162
Davis

Oak Ridge #34
Sherman

Gary sent me some transcribed obits. I am slowly getting through them.

I added the obits for Calvary and Holy Trinity Cemeteries:

Holy Trinity #048
Rebholz, Stubbe, Esser

Calvary
Amberg, Bornheimer, Broichgans, Grings, Wenzlick, Kempf, Oppermann, Salb, Salback, Schwalbach, Wick

I received a few more obituaries and added them to the site.

Names include:

#41 Genesee
Proctor

#92 Oak Knoll
Hudson

#173 Prairie Home
Klock, Taylor, Blasing, Love, Lovejoy, Loveland, Lovell, Winchell, Turkoski, Werning, Wright

Cem X
Schaefer

For years, USGenWeb was graciously given free server space for their completely free state and county sites by an organization called Rootsweb.  A number of years ago, Rootsweb was purchased by the same company that owns Ancestry.com.  Recently this company made some changes in the way their URL render.  The new URL for these pages is rootsweb.ancestry.com

Since perception is everything, a number of the volunteers of the USGenweb sites were uncomfortable with the fact that the ancestry.com name is now part of their URL.  As such, the volunteers began moving their sites to different servers and new URLs.  Since ancestry.com does not allow proper redirection of websites using conventional methods, the search engines are now experiencing thousands of bad links relating to the genealogy world.

I am in the process of writing to all the major search engines, explaining the situation, asking them to index these new pages more often and faster….in hopes to get the genealogy community back into the major search engines.

Sorry for any problems any of you are experiencing.  If it relates to a Wisconsin Page, please let me know and I will see if I can find out where the pages went.

I found a few news articles regarding the removal of Muskego Centre Cemetery.  The bodies were reinterred primarily at Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha back in 1955.  You can see the update at cemetery 102.

I found a Waukesha Freeman newspaper written in 1895 that featured Waukesha in the Civil War.  I have transcribed some of it and placed it online as a link from the civil war section.

Included in that article is a list of Civil War soldiers that are buried in the county.  I have updated the Civil War memorial page with that new information.

I have been blessed with a gift by the name of Gary. Gary just sent in over 1200 names extracted from the [Milwaukee] Herold death notices, thank yous and burial notices. I have added the names and dates to the Obituary/Death Notice Index pages. Thank you, thank you, thank you Gary. Your efforts are appreciated. Below is a list of the names added.

1886

Abraham, Ackenausen, Ackenhausen, Ahrens, Albert, Alberts, Albrecht, Amman, Andelink, Anger, Anvelink, Argus, Argus, Arnold, Arnstein, Baas, Bandemoer, Barbaras, Barmeier, Barth, Barth, Basse, Baudemor, Bauer, Baumann, Baumgartner, Bauml, Bautz, Bawart, Bechtel, Beck, Becker, Becker, Beese, Beierlie, (more…)

Thanks to Barb, tombstone photos for St. Joseph’s cemetery Oak Creek have now been added to the gallery site.

She has gone through the photos and transcribed the information on the stone.

Thanks Barb for all your hard work.

The St. Joseph’s Tombstone Photos can be found here.

I realized I had not posted this from last week.

Sometimes I don’t think I thank people enough for all that they send me. I get a lot of stuff and try to put things on as quickly as possible. If it were not for all of you sending in your information/photos/tidbits that you have, the sites would not be as large as they are.

Today I added death information sent in to me by researchers.

To Lincoln Memorial I added: LEMKE, MANTHEI, SHUMACHER, BAILEY

I updated Sacred Heart of Jesus Cemetery of St. Francis. Including additons of photographs of some of the tombstones.

I added some deaths to Holy Trinity:

BERTLER, ECK, ESSER, GOELZ, GOMBER, HOEFT, HUWER, LEDERER, MAAS, MARKEIWICZ, MONDLOCH, QUAST, REBHOLZ, REUTER, SALB, SCHUMACHER, SOMERS, STARCZAK, STRAUBINGER, STUBBE

Good Morning All,

Karen D. sent in an index of about 290 Polish names I will be adding to the obituary section.  She is graciously going through each issue of the  Kuyer Polski paper and translating names that appear as obits or thank yous and creating an index.  As she completes a year she sends me the index.  I will be adding this to the site very soon.

Barb is helping by adding and identifying tombstone images to the image gallery. She currently is working on St. Joseph’s in Oak Creek.

Gary has been indexing the German Newspaper obits and has been sending names in as he has them.  He also is sending in tombstone photos and corrections to entries as he finds them.

Thank you everyone for all your assistance.