Links to the Past

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 can be found here.

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.

First I want to wish everyone a very Happy Holiday Season and the New Year brings you and your families health and happiness. May you be able to climb those brick walls with ease. Also, thank you for visiting my site. I hope in some way it aids you in your research. Even if only to confirm the information you already have.

With that said, those of you who know me may know that I also have a genealogy research service that I operate part time out of my home. I have had a pretty steady list of clients since July so I haven’t had a lot of time to update the Milwaukee and Waukesha sites. Worse than that, I haven’t been able to get together things for those that want to transcribe items for the site.

My intention this upcoming week is to organize the data I have here so that I can more efficiently continue to add to the site. I know how important it is to find online resources such as this that can help get over those brick walls so I will do what I can in the coming months to add as much as I can.

Happy New Year!

Ellen-

Deseret Morning News, Saturday, September 30, 2006

A family history overhaul

By Carrie A. Moore
Deseret Morning News

Whether your LDS ancestors pulled a handcart across the Plains or you have no affiliation with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, there’s a wealth of information being processed for placement on the Internet beginning next year that can tie you to your family tree free. (more…)

Added information about Capt. Charles McIntosh to the Other Captains section of Great Lakes Marine and Shipping.