Links to the Past

Thanks to Barb the Agudas Achim Jewish Cemetery photos are now online in the gallery.

Check out the new names and photos in the Milwaukee County Cemetery.

Saturday - June 7 Added lot numbers and d. or burial dates in #44 for these people who died in 1960: Walter Aumann, Susan Ballmann, Lillian Becker, Elizabeth Bruce, William Bruechert John Carey, Joseph Cigler, Julia Clorn, Baby boy Cornils, Rose Dobbert, Edward Dunning Edwin Dusold, Raymond Evanson, Vincent Fischer, Elsie Fitting, Wilbert Gauthier Herbert Glaeser, August Gloe, John Grady, Clara Greicar, Fred Hartwig, Milton Heffernan Wayne Honold, Carl Hovi, Ida Hudders, Ida Jacobs, Wencil Jindra, Read the rest of this entry »

No, Joan has not fallen off the face of the earth.  Her new job has taken a lot of her time.  Until she is able to get back to the files, I decided to put up a few tidbits from some of my newpaper resources.

I added a couple news tidbits from 1877 on the conviction of John Anderson who murdered Isaac Rosegard;

an 1890 article about M.C. Smith;

and 1891 articles on John Fiegel & Son Burglary and new creamery equipment in Strong’s Prairie.

My great grandmother, Lillian (Tuma) Radej was a saver. She saved photographs, news tidbits. Sometimes just brief notes in random places maybe as she was thinking of something. When my grandparents passed, I got custody of many of the piles of miscellaneous tidbits. At the time, I had no clue who many of the people were in the pictures or why Grandma Radej saved this obituary or that newspaper edition. Years later I have been through it all millions of times, and still don’t know the importance of some items. Read the rest of this entry »

I needed a place to put all the tidbits of information I have in my head on genealogy. I decided to create this category called Genealogy This, That and Other Things as a genealogy tips and tricks section. If you have anything you want to add here, let me know.

Today I have been working on the lost cemeteries page.

Thanks to John Utzat, I added more information to Cemetery 030 Stewart Allis Cemetery.

I am working on an article on the Spring Street Catholic Cemetery, later named Grand Avenue cemetery.

I found an interesting article on a burial ground in Milwaukee as it appears below:

Source: The Milwaukee Sentinel, (Milwaukee, WI) Sunday, June 20, 1886; pg. 2; Issue 34; col C

Bones in Bricks A Large Brick Yard Located Where an Old Cemetery Used to Be

Bones in Bricks

A Large Brick Yard Located Where an Old Cemetery Used to be

“Many of the bricks in some fo the finest buildings in the city are partly composed of human bones,” said a well-known builder yesteray. “This may seem a little odd to you at first, but it is true, for I’ve known it for several years. One of the yards producing the largest number of bricks of any in the state-is located on an old burying-ground from which only a few of the bodies interred ther were removed before the manufacture of brick from the clay began. I have actually seen small pieces of bone pressed into these bricks.”

As is my tradition, every Memorial Day I try to remember veterans who have served to protect our country.  This year I chose to add the names of Company I 3rd Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers who served in the Spanish American War.  Also included on this new page are the women that aided and assisted from the homefront.  These men were mustered out of Superior, Wisconsin

<a href=”http://www.linkstothepast.com/saw/3rdwisc-coI.html”>The Spanish American War Veteran page can be found here.</a>

The information was excerpted from the book “Right forward, fours right, march!” a little story of Company I, Third wisconsin Volunteers, First Brigade, First Division, First Corps, (1900).  Author Emanuel Rossiter

Small addition today and I haven’t quite finished it yet.  It is names of Milwaukee Judges 1846-1946ish.   I have about 2 more pages to transcribe.   The link is from Milwaukee businesses and also from the Milwaukee Attorney page.

If anyone wants to help with this project, please let me know.  I can scan the pages, you simply have to type the names listed on the page and send the file back.

I added a page on Milwaukee Utilities.  The page gives a short history of each and the presidents of the gas, electric and telephone companies from their inception to about 1946.  The page is linked off the Milwaukee Businesses Page.

The following are updates from the Adams County GenWeb Site 

April 30, 2008 Added the local news from the April 8th and 15th, 1893 issues of the Adams County Press newspaper, sent by CONTRIBUTOR Myrna Keppler.

April 28, 2008 Added the obituary index for the obits printed in the Adams County Times in the year 2007.

April 20, 2008 Added the local news from the May 6, 1893 issue of the Adams County Press newspaper, sent by CONTRIBUTOR Myrna Keppler.