I added a bunch of obituaries to the Waukesha site.
In the marriages
Chubb, Farr, Cobb
Cemetery X
Skibosh, Okeane, McDonald, Jones, Kendall,
Buried Elsewhere
Schultz, Crain, Rajnoch, McGregor
Wisconsin Memorial Park #11
Mangels Click to continue »
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 Click to continue »
This is a repost from Eastman’s online Blog. I thought it would be helpful to those of you who are looking for missing soldiers.
Online Database of U.S. WW II Missing in Action and POWs
The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) has created the first electronic listing of missing personnel from the Second World War. The records came from two historical sources: Rosters of Military Personnel Whose Remains Were Not Recovered, 1951-1954 and The World War II Rosters of the Dead (All Services). POWs and MIAs are listed as well as those buried at sea. Entries on this website were created by corroborating names and service numbers appearing in both sources.
Use of the database is simple: go to the site’s web page and then look for the first letter of the person’s last name. There you will find separate listing for Army, Army Air Forces, Navy, Marine Corps and Others. The Others listings appear to all be civilians, including Merchant Marine. Service personnel who were buried at sea are listed in a separate section of the same web site.
Again, this web site contains lists only for those persons whose bodies were not recovered and those who were buried at sea.
You can access the “Service Personnel Not Recovered Following World War II” database at http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/WWII_MIA.
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.
DAR or Daughters of the American Revolution is an womens’ organization for the descendants of individuals who aided in the American Revolution. I added to the marriage and family section DAR members that were born in Waukesha County. Surnames include:
ADAMS, AUSTIN, BACKUS, BAKER, BALLANTINE, BARTLET, Click to continue »
Saturday – March 17
Put Civil war tombstone photos on in #82, added tombstone photos for L’s in 89A.
Added obits for these people:
#6- Added to Alvin Christel obit
#21- Wenzel Knier
#59- Frank Herr
#60- George Knier
#82- Carl Allinger, Theodore Ammann, Wilhelmine Berg, William Curry, Henrietta Gast
Catharine Graf, Therese Grosz, Frieda Heidemann, Mary Jugenheimer, Hattie Kissinger
Johanna Nottke
#83- Katherine Lambert, Johanna Mahlich
#84- Nicholas Balz, Amelia Becker, Victoria Gruhle, Maggie Holzmann, Marie Kautzer
Arwin Mattes, Mary Prueter
#87- Carl Roethel
died/buried elsewhere
John Adam, Caesar Barth, William Loos, Margaret Martin, Helena Maurer
Anton Mertens, Catherine Paulsen
died here/bur. elsewhere
Charles Berg
For those of you who are researching Military Veterans, I found a Gravesite locator database put together by the Veterans Administration.
Search for burial locations of veterans and their family members in VA National Cemeteries, state veterans cemeteries, various other military and Department of Interior cemeteries, and for veterans buried in private Click to continue »
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-
