Research tip: If you’re planning to order Civil War pension or military service files from the National Archives, get your order(s) in soon. We were at the archives last week and the indication is they expect a sharp rise in the number of orders once the 150th anniversary of the Civil War officially arrives in April. This likely will increase the time it takes to fill orders.
Thank you to Civil War Roots for letting us know!
Hello,
For those of you who don’t know I recently acquired the GenWeb site for Washington County, Wisconsin.
I have been busy adding surnames to the site. In the past couple names the following names have been added.
You can visit the site at www.LinksToThePast.com/washington
ADAMS, AHLERS, ALBINGER, ALBRECHT, ALTENHOFEN, AMIDON, ANDERSON, ARNET, ASHWORTH
BACH, BAILEY, BAILEY, BARNEY, BASEMAN, BASTIAN, BASTIAN, BASTIAN, BAUER, BAUMGARTNER, BEAN, BECKER, BEER, BENNETT, BETTEN, BIERNER, BLECHA, BLINGS, BOCK, BODAN, BODEN, BOENITZ, Click to continue »
For many of us with Czech/Bohemian ancestors, it seems that once they came over on the boat, we were to never hear of the old country again. It is difficult sometimes to find the exact city where they came from and therefore next to impossible to trace back further.
I just stumbled up a resource I did not know existed. I thought I would share it all with you.
I was at WI Historical Society working on a Bohemian project I am trying to track down what city they came from.
In her obit she said she was a member of the Western Bohemian Fraternal Association. I did some research on the association and they are a national group with lodges in communities around the nation.
Every month the association published a magazine relating to the Bohemians across the nation.
The publication was called Bratrsky Vestnik published from 1898 to Dec 1856. In July 1943 it was changed to Fraternal Herald. The publication is written in Czech most years but in later years they published both an English and Czech version.
The films are available through inter library loan.
Here is the URL from the Madison Library.
http://madcat.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v1=2&ti=1,2&Search_Arg=western%20bohemian%20fraternal%20association&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&PID=680vyeqAedLzOWgPEya2muyZFL&SEQ=20100806080218&SID=1
There are obituaries on some deceased members published in the magazine. The obits typically include where they came from in the old country 
In later years they also published a chart that listed payments of Mortuary Claims for the month.
Some good information in there if you are lucky enough to have a Czech/ Bohemian family member as a member.
Unfortunately my family still remains a mystery.
Not sure if you know it, but a wicket tornado went through the village of Eagle Waukesha County a few weeks ago. No federal subsidies were received because not enough “public” damage was done, although the cemetery was hit pretty hard.
There is a relief benefit being held for the families of Eagle August 8.
If you are in the area, be sure to attend!
Ellen-
I am in the process of transcribing the index cards for the Washington County Naturalization Records. If anyone would like to help, please let me know by adding a comment below and I will let you know how you can help.
Here is what the index cards look like:
I recently added a new project to my list of things to do in my spare time. I am not the webmaster for the Washington County, WIGenWeb website. It will be very similar to my Waukesha and Milwaukee sites in style and layout. If you have any Washington County resources you want to add, please be sure to send the information my way! I will add it as quickly as I can.
I am still putting a few finishing touches on the site, but if you are interested in taking a peak it can be found at www.LinksToThePast.com/washington
It amazes me sometimes that I can live in a community for 25 years and know very little about it. For those of you researching Jewish Ancestors in the Milwaukee Area, the Jewish Museum Milwaukee has online resources available.
They have:
If you haven’t already been there, be sure to check out the Milwaukee Jewish resources available online.
If you haven’t been to the museum, you may also want to check that out:
1360 N. Prospect Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Hours
Monday–Thurs 10am–4pm
Friday 10am-2pm
Sunday 12pm–4pm
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LeeAnn sent in some photos for Prairie Home cemetery.
I added the photos to the gallery and added the names to Prairie Home cemetery on the site.
Surnames include:
Babcock, Ross, Grant, Hunkins
I am finally able to start adding to the site again. Although just a small additional, today I added some deaths sent in to me by a researcher.
Summit Cemetery #152 additions for the Price, Robertson, Pool and Ripsom families
If you have anything you would like to add to the site, please be sure to email me using the link at the bottom of the pages.
Woohoo goes the applause from Irish researchers!
The second phase of the www.IrishGenealogy.ie website is expected to be launched this week. The second phase involves the digitization of Church of Ireland birth/marriage/death records from the city of Dublin and dioceses of Ardfert and Leighlin and Roman Catholic birth/marriage/death records from the Diocese of Cork and Ross.
The www.IrishGenealogy.ie website allows the public to view over 1,300 million pre-1900 Church records from Kerry and Dublin city free of charge.
For more information visit Inside Ireland
