Links to the Past

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.

Small addition today and I haven’t quite finished it yet.

I added a page on Milwaukee Utilities.

The following are updates from the Adams County GenWeb Site

I updated burial information for Rost on the 52nd Regiment Page on the Wisconsin Civil War Pages.

Bob Domagalski sent me the death index for St. Peter St. Paul church in Schleswig twp., I have it scanned and as soon as I get it proofread, I’ll put it online. There are 32 pages of it. After it’s online, I’ll move the ones I can to the proper cems.

Added Anna Kries from cem. #89B to the centenarians page Read the rest of this entry »

Tons of new names added to the Milwaukee site.
Fallen Firefighters 1879-1945
Bielinski, Bresnahan, Burke, Campbell, Clarke, Clausen, Craft, Curtis, Dessecker, Doyle, Dressel, Droney, Eichorn, Falch, Farrell, Fenske, Fischbauer, Flaeschel, Foley, Freeman, Freytag, Glander, Graf, Grosskopf, Gunning, Hackett, Haley, Hammond, Hanlon, Hart, Hecht, Hennessey, Hentz , Hintz, Hogan, Houlahan, Janssen, Kinsella, Koerper, Koschmieder, Kracheck, Krimmer, Langton, Lechner, Liefert, Matttison, Mcgurk, Mehan, Meyer, Morgan, Moroney, Nessheim, Nimmer, Noonan, O’brien, O’donnell, Pagel, Peddenbruch, Priebe, Prier, Ries, Rosen, Rossow, Ryback, Sawyer, Schmidt, Schroeder, Schultz, Skorzewski, Stahr, Stiller, Strzeminski, Sullivan, Thiessenhussen, Toman, Voelz, Wambach, Wasocel, Whaley, White, Winney, Winsauer, Wolf, Zanders, Zepf

Fallen Police Officers 1884-1943
Bahlke, Deckert, Flieth, Gauer, George, Goodman, Gudgell, Kaemmerling, Kaiser, Kossow, Larsen, Lecher, Luedtke, O’Brien, Pieske, Piszczeck, Raabe, Schmidt, Seehawer, Spindler, Stecker, Templin, Weiler, Werner, Zingler

Governors of National Soldiers Home
Wolcott, Yates, Cassels, Wooley, Hincks, Sharpe, Knox, Hathaway, Wheeler, Ijams, Crain, Bury, Crampton, Kibby, Pearsall, Foremming

Mayors of Milwaukee

Milwaukee County Council Presidents 1846-1946

Milwaukee Association of Commerce 1861-1946