I have updated the marine site with a new look. I have renamed it the Great Lakes Maritime History site.
Let me know if you have any problems with any of the pages.
If you have anything you would like to add, please email me.
We have a volunteer to type up the pages of the Shipmaster list.
Hello!
Shari just sent me a photo of the Shipmaster Association Directory from 1897. I am looking for a volunteer or two to transcribe the data for us to place on the site. There are about 6 or so pages with a bunch of names on. Pretty simple typing.
If you would like to volunteer please let me know. (email address is at the bottom of every page on the linkstothepast.com domain).
I can send a sample page if you want to know what it looks like.
WIRoots.org is undergoing a redo. That is my site I have for Wisconsin Genealogy. I will be further partnering with the WisNetwork.com and enhancing the resources on each county page.
If you have any Wisconsin links such as family tree links, resources, Genealogical Societies, Historical Societies or Musuems…anything of historical value that might be helpful to genealogists, please let me know and I will tell you how you can get the link added to the WisRoots.org.
Calling all photos, calling all photos!
I am in the process of putting up a photo gallery for Waukesha County and Milwaukee County. I welcome any submissions from anyone out there that has photos they want to share.
I will be making an album for each of the Milwaukee and Waukesha County Cemeteries.
I have a general album for Milwaukee
I have a general album started for most of the townships in Waukesha county.
I have a lost memories album which is a place to share images or people you can’t identify.
If you have photos you would like to share, please email me and I will give you instructions.
The album is located at LinkingYourPast.com. There are over 3000 photos submitted to the gallery and soon to be more.
I added a few articles to the Marine and Shipping site.
Added Capt. George Lawrence, Mr. Robert Harris, Capt. George Irving info to the Marine site.
Information on the ships Oliver Culver and the Depere
For those of you not on a county rootsweb mailing list. The following came across all the county lists in the last day or so. I thought I would repeat it here. Some great resources are not available!
Dear Genealogists,
One of the most used reference books about the Badger State, the /Wisconsin Blue Book/ is a compilation of facts and figures pertaining to the government, people, industry, lifestyle and history of the State of Wisconsin. Now, this important and endlessly interesting series is available online at (more…)
Here is an article I read about the LDS church and it’s efforts to digitize information. We can look forward to some nice additions to the online genealogy community.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5930673
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 is now live.