Yesterday I spent time on St. Paul’s UCC (formerly St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran) Cemetery . It started with adding a link to Lenora’s wonderful cemetery photos she has put online at find-a-grave.com, then adding obituaries for some of the burials in the cemetery. The cemetery is number 65.
In the process I came across an article on the circumstances of William Erdman and August Amend deaths.
Barb finished putting the photos for Prairie Home into the photo gallery. These are the same photos that were on the site simply in a different format so they are more easily searchable. You can see the photos (and use the search and keyword features) by going to the Prairie Home Cemetery Tombstone Photographs page of the gallery.
The burials and interments for Prairie Home will be put on the site later today.
I found a new article on Benecke cemetery and added that to cemetery 1 waukesha.
I added a link to Mealy funeral home in Eagle.
Someone emailed me a few days ago and asked where the civil war regiments were organized. He thought it was a park or somewhere in the city. I found more information in an article written in 1895 in the Freeman. I am posting it here in hopes that he will find it, since I no longer have his email. I have added it to Waukesha in the Civil War pages.
The first draft followed close on the heels of the filling of the 28th regiment. The enlistment, large as it seemed, was not enough. (more…)
This weekend I have been busy straightening out the sites a bit. I updated the Wisconsin site, hoping google will pick up more pages.
The majority of my time this weekend has been on the Waukesha site.
I updated Prairie Home with a few new entries. Barb will be adding some photos to the gallery soon, so I was straightening up the cemetery pages to match her new entries.
She finished Oak Knoll in Mukwonago and has begun work on Luther Parker Cemetery in Muskego.
I am adding obituaries for Guyeron to Oak Knoll sent in by a researcher.
I added Lot owners that were published in the newspaper in the 1940s for Prairie Home.
I updated La Belle cemetery, fixed a few errors on one page and reorganized the way the pages read. I added to this cemetery an obit for Sylvester, sent in by a researcher.
A tragedy happened today that makes me thankful for all of the records I have been able to put online thus far. The First Baptist Church Oconomowoc as well as two nearby houses were destroyed today after a natural gas leak explosion. The church was about 100 years old and had beautiful stained glass windows. All that remains is the red brick steeple. I don’t know how many records were lost, but any that were not computerized or that didn’t have copies elsewhere, were destroyed.
These names were added to the probate section:Hemmings, Byrnes, Wile, Williams, Casey, Otto, Sharpe, Maney, Barker, Bradley, Chapin, Watcher, Wiesner
The following were added as a link from the obit page and the cemeteries as noted below.
Cemetery X
Reynolds, Springer, Schaefer, Bowman, Smith, Elliott, Pluckhahn, Wilson
New Berlin Center #113
Hunkins
Prairie Home Cemetery #173
Roberson, Parker, Gray, Dorn
St. Peter and Paul, Duplainville #144
Knoebel
St. Joseph Waukesha #172
Peifer, Meidenbauer
Welsh Tabernacle #22
Davis
Vernon Center #162
Davis
Oak Ridge #34
Sherman
I received a few more obituaries and added them to the site.
Names include:
#41 Genesee
Proctor
#92 Oak Knoll
Hudson
#173 Prairie Home
Klock, Taylor, Blasing, Love, Lovejoy, Loveland, Lovell, Winchell, Turkoski, Werning, Wright
Cem X
Schaefer
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.
I found a few news articles regarding the removal of Muskego Centre Cemetery. The bodies were reinterred primarily at Prairie Home Cemetery in Waukesha back in 1955. You can see the update at cemetery 102.