Thanks to Maxine more biographies were added to the Milwaukee website at www.Linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/1881historyindex.php
The following surnames were added
Kittredge, Crandall, Mansfield, Lantry, Scherer, Howard, Howes, Isleb, Jurss, Joss, Kay, Kessler, Schmidt, Brown, More, Swan, Smith, Barnes, Lefeber.
I recently found a picture and a short article on the Fairview Mausoleum formerly in Milwaukee. I hadn’t realized it was a community mausoleum.
The article can be seen at Links To the Past The article was published in the Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Reporter.
Thanks to Maxine, I have added some more of the 1881 Biographies from History of Milwaukee. Be sure to check out the Index page to see if your biography is now online. If it is not, send a request to Maxine and she will get it to you.
Hello all,
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
This weekend I was busy updating Milwaukee Genealogy information as sent in by researchers. Thank you for your submissions!
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
A gentleman by the name of Eugene B. Meier, Jr. Sent me a list of Wisconsin Painters and Sculptors and a listing of their art. I will be adding this to the Milwaukee website (and a link from the Waukesha) within the next weeks. There are 549 word document pages that will need to be converted to web format, so it might take a bit to get online. The list contains people that were in the Milwaukee Telephone exchange area of artists with art in the early 1900s through the 1980s.
Be looking for an update in the coming weeks and thank for thinking of us, Eugene!
PS If anyone knows HTML and wants to help, please let me know by sending me an email.
This morning I moved the St. Stanislaus Death Register from the old Milwaukee GenWeb website to my site. St. Stanislaus is a Polish Catholic Parish on the southside of Milwaukee. Thank you Mary Popovich for compiling the data and submitting it to the GenWeb Website.
There were only a few pages on the old GenWeb website, so it will not be long before that site will be taken down. If you link to the site, please be sure to update your links to the new site.
The url is: www.LinksToThePast.com/milwaukee
Thank you.
Hello all!
I recently acquired the coordinator position for the Milwaukee County WIGenWeb website (the one hosted on rootsweb). When I have merged the content from the old one to mine, I will remove the contents of the old site.
Today I did an email check on the surname page that was listed on the old site. I got over 190 bounced email addresses. If you have updated your email in the last 5 or so years and you previously sent in a surname query, you may want to check the new page to see if your email address has been removed. If it has, please send me an update.
PLEASE NOTE: I will not be accepting new surnames at this time. I am working on a system where the user will be able to update their email without my assistance.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
Ellen-
I was sent a few additions for Pilgrims Rest Cemetery in Milwaukee.
I also have copies of some of the Zion United Church of Christ (also known as Evangelical Zion Kirche) death records and transcribed some. I have found that many of the deceased from this church were buried in Pilgrims Rest or Forest Home.
Names include:
Attenbech
Blankenburg
Geinler
Geissler
Haefner
Harchge (Harihge?)
Heinig
Henke
Jahnke
Jahnke
Klug
Knabe
Lobitz
Martens
Menzel
Nabakowski
Ruebner
Schauz
Schendel
Simon
Springer
Wall
William
I am currently planning on attending a Civil War Symposium in Fort Wayne Indiana at the Allen County Library on Friday and Saturday Oct. 8 and 9, 2010.
If any of my fellow Milwaukee researchers would like to tag along, I would welcome the company.
http://thing1.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/Military%20Symposium_2010.pdf
The Allen County library has a large collection of genealogy materials from all states. I have heard it is definitely worth the trip out there if one can go.
It is approximately 5-6 hours to drive out there (depending on Chicago Traffic). I don’t know when I will be leaving yet. It will either be Thursday or very early Friday to give me time to do research at the library at least for a few hours. (first session starts Friday at 2:30) (It will also depends on the other passengers).
If you are interested let me know. You would be responsible for all your own costs (admission, hotel, food, etc.) I am willing to split a room if you are comfortable with that.
Let me know by sending me an email, placing a comment below or calling 262-783-1620.
Ellen-
