Links To The Past » Wisconsin http://blog.linkstothepast.com Southeastern Wisconsin Genealogy and History Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:37:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 White Creek, Adams County, WI http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/07/23/white-creek-adams-county-wi/ http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/07/23/white-creek-adams-county-wi/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 14:36:24 +0000 ellen http://blog.linkstothepast.com/?p=879 A new #history article and photos of #White Creek, Adams County, Wisconsin were just added to the #WIRoots Adams County Website.

The new page can be found here.
http://wiroots.org/wiadams/whitecreekhistory.html

Pictures are in the Linking Your Past Photo Gallery

Thanks to Patricia for sending the information and photos!

]]> http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/07/23/white-creek-adams-county-wi/feed/ 0 One Step Tutorial on Finding ED in 1940 census. http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/07/01/one-step-tutorial-on-finding-ed-in-1940-census/ http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/07/01/one-step-tutorial-on-finding-ed-in-1940-census/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:16:05 +0000 ellen http://blog.linkstothepast.com/?p=872 The following announcement was written by Steve Morse and Joel Weintraub:

In less than 10 months the 1940 US Population Schedules will become public. It will not be name indexed, so it will be necessary to do an address search in order to find families. Address searching involves knowing the ED (enumeration district) in which the address is located. The National Archives (NARA) earlier this year indicated they had plans to make available in 2011 the 1940 ED maps of cities and counties, and ED descriptions, but their recent move to consider having a 3rd party host all the images may have appreciably set back this timetable.

The only website that currently has location tools for the 1940 census is the Steve Morse One Step site (http://stevemorse.org). There are several such tools there, and it could be overwhelming to figure out which tool to use when. There is a tutorial that attempts to clarify it (http://stevemorse.org/census/intro.html) and an extensive FAQ (http://stevemorse.org/census/faq.htm).

We are announcing the opening of another educational utility to help people learn about the different 1940 locational search tools on the One Step site, and information about the 1940 census itself. It is in the form of a quiz, and should help many, many genealogists quickly learn how to search an unindexed census by location. The new utility is at: http://stevemorse.org/census/quiz.php and is called “How to Access the 1940 Census in One Step”. Not only is it informative, we hope it is entertaining.

Thanks

Joel Weintraub
Steve Morse

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The following surnames were added
Kittredge, Crandall, Mansfield, Lantry, Scherer, Howard, Howes, Isleb, Jurss, Joss, Kay, Kessler, Schmidt, Brown, More, Swan, Smith, Barnes, Lefeber.

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The article can be seen at Links To the Past The article was published in the Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Reporter.

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Armstrong
Arndt
Arnemann
Arnet
Arnet
Arnet
Arnet
Arnet
Arnold
Arzbacher

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Thanks to Maxine I have been adding biographies to the website from the book The History of Milwaukee 1881. If you haven’t checked the page out lately, please be sure to check it out.

http://linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/1881historyindex.php

I added a few names to the surname registry.
Magestro or Magistro and Loveall.

Moved Birner from Cem X to Cavalry Cemetery #036

Added Aldrich to Cemetery X

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Updated the spelling of the name Grueber that appeared on the Lutheran Church page.

Moved Herman Auger from Cemetery X to Forest Home cemetery.

Added 1881 History bios scanned by Maxine.

Winkler death information to cemetery 50 Wanderers Rest.

Added a section of Wisconsin Artists sent in by a contributor. The link to it is on the Milwaukee Family page.
Here is the direct link.

Added to Marriages:
Koopman, Phillips, Tenner, Essers, Seifried, Krause

]]> http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/02/20/milwaukee-county-updates/feed/ 0 Waukesha Deaths in Cemeteries http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/02/10/waukesha-deaths-in-cemeteries/ http://blog.linkstothepast.com/2011/02/10/waukesha-deaths-in-cemeteries/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:03:27 +0000 ellen http://blog.linkstothepast.com/?p=800 This week I worked on the following files at the courthouse. I have added the deaths to following cemeteries:

Cemetery X
Lena O’Brien
Leonard Fielder

Summit Cemetery
Adelia Parks Leavitt

Prairie Home
Samper A Perkins

Oconomowoc Cemetery
Mary Machus

Wisconsin Memorial park
W H Rintelman

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