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Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin)

1934 August 13
R.H. Polzin Loses Life at Bathing Beach

R.H. Polzin, 52, owner of the Polzin Calendar & Novelty company of Milwaukee and a former resident of Nekoosa, lost his life while swimming in Lucas lake, near West Bend, Saturday afternoon. Death was at first attributed to drowning, but it was discovered upon examination of the body that there was no water in the lungs, Mr. Polzin’s false teeth having become lodged in his throat choking him to death.

Mr. Polzin dove into about seven feet of water from a spring board 20 feet from shore. He came up and sank. A woman called for help, and within five minutes his body was recovered by bathers. A West Bend rescue squad worked for 40 minutes in a futile effort to resuscitate him.

Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Seerick funeral home in Milwaukee, with burial in a Milwaukee cemetery beside his wife, who preceded him in death 16 years ago.

Mr. Polzin, who was born February 16, 1882, in Winona, Minn., is survived by his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. William Polzin of Nekoosa; two daughters, June and Fae of Milwaukee; seven brothers, William A. and Fred of Milwaukee, Leo of Moss Bank, Saskatchewan, Canada, Louis if Slinger, Ferdinand, Henry and Otto of Nekoosa, and three sisters, Mrs. Ida Kepstein, Newark, N.J., Mrs. Amanda Kasper and Mrs. Martin Fogel, both of Milwaukee.

Mr. Polzin resided with his parents in Nekoosa during his boyhood.

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.

Adams County WIGenWeb site has a new permanent home.

The former pages graciously hosted by Ancestry no longer serves our purposes, so the pages were moved over to a new server and new domain.

You can find the Adams County Genealogy and History content now located at http://wiroots.org/wiadams