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
I updated the Waukesha and Washington counties sites today with deaths extracted from probate records in Waukesha County.
BEAUMONT marriages and Hartland Cemetery
BUCKHOLZ Prairie Home and Obituary
NICKELL Prairie Home Cemetery and Obituary
BOECK: Prairie Home Cemetery
MEREDITH: Oak Ridge Cemetery and Obituary
RUEKERT: St. Joseph Cemetery Waukesha
PITZKA: See RUEKERT
SMITH: Cemetery X
HELD: Washington County Probate in Waukeha County
I have been going through the items that have been sent in by researchers and have been updating the site.
I made this change to the Waukesha site at www.Linkstothepast.com/waukesha/22.php
ROWLANDS Update to Tabernacle cemetery.
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.
A researcher sent in information about the Quirk family.
I updated the Waukesha website with this new information.
Surnames included:
BLUEMN, CASEY, CLANCY, DUNLAP, HACKET, KEATING, MONAGHAN, NICHOLSON, NIESSEN, SHAEFER, SNYDER
You can see the Quirk family information here.
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-
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!
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-
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
