Archive for the 'Waukesha County' Category

St. Paul’s UCC Cemetery Menomonee Falls

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

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.

Prairie Home Cemetery Photos

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

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.

Benecke Cemetery

Monday, April 7th, 2008

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.

Civil War Draft

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

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.

DRAFTS IN THE COUNTY

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…)

Weekend Genealogy

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

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.

First Baptist Church Oconomowoc

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

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.

Waukesha Death Notices and Obituaries

Monday, March 31st, 2008

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

Waukesha Cemetery Additions

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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

Where did all the Rootsweb pages go?

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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.

Muskego Centre Cemetery Update

Saturday, March 29th, 2008

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.