Links to the Past

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 have added a transcription of the book:  Early Milwaukee, Papers from the Archives of the Old Settlers’ Club of Milwaukee County, Published by the Club, 1916

The book contains papers written by some of the early settlers.  In these papers are names of people.  The list of names has been merged into the Milwaukee marriage files.

Also in the book was a list of members.

More information on this book can be found on the site by going to Directories, Old Settlers or click on this link.

Members and names mentioned in the book are as follows:

Abay: H. C; Abert: George; Abert: George A; Ableman: S. V. R 22; Adams: F. F.; Adlam: Capt. Samuel J. G; Adler: E. D.; Adler: I. D.; Adler: S. D.; Adler: David 10; Agnew: Andrew D.; Akerly: Rev. 110; Alcott: Ann M 131; Alexander: Capt. S; (more…)

We have a volunteer to type up the pages of the Shipmaster list.  Thank you M&E Treptow for volunteering.

I have other things to type up.  If anyone wants to help out, please send me an email and I will see what we can find that interests you.

I have found that some of the pages that I have work real well with OCR scanners.  If you  have an OCR scanner and would like to do a page or two, please let me know.

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 new page with history of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad Company from the 1881 History of Milwaukee book.

It contains history and bios on some of the officers and employees.

Names include:

F.W. Rhinelander, President; New York
Wm. H. Guion, Vice President; New York
Allyn Cox, Treasurer; Milwaukee
Alfred L. Cary, Secretary; Milwaukee
J.P.C. Cotrill, Attorney; Milwaukee
H.G.H.Reed, General Superintendent; Milwaukee
H.F. Whitcomb, General Freight and Passenger Agent; Milwaukee
J. Donohue, Assistant Superintendent; Manitowoc
C.F. Rand, Auditor; Milwaukee
J.O. Thayer, General Land Agent; Milwaukee
S. Charnley, Master Mechanic; Manitowoc
C.S. Hayden, Train Dispatcher; Milwaukee
Harry C. Reed, Assistant Train Dispatcher; Milwaukee
A.F. Graham, Freight Agent; Milwaukee
Martin Moran, conductor; Manitowoc
P.H. Moran, conductor; Manitowoc
Charles R. Bartlett, conductor; Manitowoc
H.N. Hullison, engineer; Manitowoc
Charles Ramus, roadmaster; Manitowoc
H.J. Frick, passenger conductor; Manitowoc
John Farin, Conductor; Manitowoc
Joseph E.Langlois, passenger conductor; Two Rivers, Manitowoc County
Wallace H. Holmes, passenger conductor; Wausau

The links to the new page can be found on the Milwaukee Site >Businesses>Transportation >Railroads