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Have you ever paged through a friend or family photo album and you say, “Hey get me a copy of this photo!” knowing full well it probably won’t happen. The other problem I have seen is you want a copy of the entire album but Aunt Judy won’t let it out of the house. I [...]

White Creek, Adams County, WI

A new #history article and photos of #White Creek, Adams County, Wisconsin were just added to the #WIRoots Adams County Website. The new page can be found here. http://wiroots.org/wiadams/whitecreekhistory.html Pictures are in the Linking Your Past Photo Gallery Thanks to Patricia for sending the information and photos!

Poznan Poland Database

This just arrived in my inbox on a news list. Thanks Ruth for sharing! For those of you researching the Poznan region of Poland, here is a new (at least new to me!) database. This is not the Poznan Marriage Project. http://www.basia.famula.pl/en/ Type in the surname you are researching and hit ENTER. If you get [...]

One Step Tutorial on Finding ED in 1940 census.

The following announcement was written by Steve Morse and Joel Weintraub: In less than 10 months the 1940 US Population Schedules will become public. It will not be name indexed, so it will be necessary to do an address search in order to find families. Address searching involves knowing the ED (enumeration district) in which [...]

Milwaukee Biographies

Thanks to Maxine more biographies were added to the Milwaukee website at www.Linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/1881historyindex.php The following surnames were added Kittredge, Crandall, Mansfield, Lantry, Scherer, Howard, Howes, Isleb, Jurss, Joss, Kay, Kessler, Schmidt, Brown, More, Swan, Smith, Barnes, Lefeber.

Ephraim Village Museum New Exhibits

Plans on a door county trip this summer? The exhibits — “Garments of our Foundation” and “The Roots of Our Village: The Pioneer Families of Ephraim” — were unveiled Friday night at an opening reception marking the Ephraim Village Museum’s 2011 summer season. Check out more about the exhibit.

Mystery of an Antique Ring

By Joey Cresta jcresta@seacoastonline.com June 17, 2011 2:00 AM KITTERY, Maine — An amateur genealogist in Dover, N.H., is trying to piece together the history of a ring recently found on a Kittery beach. When Scott Drummey read the June 9 Portsmouth Herald article detailing Berwick resident Carrie Arsenault’s discovery of an inscribed gold ring, [...]

Family Tree DNA Sale

Dick Eastman posted yesterday that FamilyTree DNA is having a summer sale. If you are an existing customer and are interesting in upgrading your study, now is the chance. Eastman’s article

Funeral home….did you know?

Did you now that: 1: Funeral homes MAY NOT refuse to accept caskets purchased form another retailer. 2: Funeral homes MAY NOT charge a handling fee for caskets purchased from another retailer. 3: Funeral homes MAY NOT require consumers to be present when a casket is purchased from another retailer is delivered to the funeral [...]

Cream of Wheat Model Recognized

This was from a 2007 issue of Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Association Newsletter. (AP) A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name. Frank L. White died in 1938, and until recently, his grave in Woodland Cemetery (Michigan) bore [...]

Milwaukee County Genealogy and History

Milwaukee County Genealogy and History Online Library features over 1200 webpages of free births, deaths, marriages, and military history and genealogical information for Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Done in cooperation with WIGenWeb. Click to visit the website.

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Milwaukee Biographies

Fairview Mausoleum

I recently found a picture and a short article on the Fairview Mausoleum formerly in Milwaukee. I hadn’t realized it was a community mausoleum. The article can be seen at Links To the Past The article was published in the Wisconsin Cemetery and Cremation Reporter.

Milwaukee biographies

Thanks to Maxine, I have added some more of the 1881 Biographies from History of Milwaukee. Be sure to check out the Index page to see if your biography is now online. If it is not, send a request to Maxine and she will get it to you.

Milwaukee Biographies

Hello all, Thanks to Maxine I have been adding biographies to the website from the book The History of Milwaukee 1881. If you haven’t checked the page out lately, please be sure to check it out. http://linkstothepast.com/milwaukee/1881historyindex.php I added a few names to the surname registry. Magestro or Magistro and Loveall. Moved Birner from Cem [...]

Milwaukee County Updates

This weekend I was busy updating Milwaukee Genealogy information as sent in by researchers. Thank you for your submissions! Updated the spelling of the name Grueber that appeared on the Lutheran Church page. Moved Herman Auger from Cemetery X to Forest Home cemetery. Added 1881 History bios scanned by Maxine. Winkler death information to cemetery [...]

Waukesha County Genealogy & History

Waukesha County Genealogy and History website features over 900 webpages of Waukesha County related free births, deaths, marriages, and military history and genealogical information. It is part of the WIGenWeb. Click to visit the website.

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Waukesha Deaths in Cemeteries

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

Waukesha County Updates

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 [...]

Updates to Waukesha Free Genealogy Website

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.

Wisconsin Painters & Sculptors Exhibition Record

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 [...]

Quirk information enhanced

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.

Washington County, Wisconsin Genealogy and History

Website dedicated to the distribution of free birth, death, marriage, cemetery, military history and genealogical information for Washington County, Wisconsin. Part of the WIGenWeb. Click to visit the website.

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Washington County WI Naturalizations

Thanks to Angela we have a few more Washington County WI naturalizations online. Thanks Angela for transcribing! Armstrong Arndt Arnemann Arnet Arnet Arnet Arnet Arnet Arnold Arzbacher

Waukesha County Updates

Civil War Military Symposium

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 [...]

Military Records Research Tip

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 [...]

Washington County Wisconsin New Surname Additions

Hello, For those of you who don’t know I recently acquired the GenWeb site for Washington County, Wisconsin. I have been busy adding surnames to the site. In the past couple names the following names have been added. You can visit the site at www.LinksToThePast.com/washington ADAMS, AHLERS, ALBINGER, ALBRECHT, ALTENHOFEN, AMIDON, ANDERSON, ARNET, ASHWORTH BACH, [...]

Manitowoc County Genealogy

Over 2500 webpages of births, deaths, marriages, and military history and genealogical information for Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. See More on Manitowoc County

WI Roots Genealogy and History Resources

Wisconsin history and genealogical information and links to free genealogy resources for all 72 Wisconsin Counties. Click to see Wisconsin Free Genealogy Links and Resources.

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Finding Your Roots
In each hour-long episode, Professor Gates takes viewers along for the journey with one celebrity pair bound together by an intimate, sometimes hidden link, treks through layers of ancestral history, uncovers secrets and surprises of their family trees, and shares life-altering discoveries. Working closely with the nation’s leading genealogists (including the New England Genealogical Historical Society and Johni Cerny, co-author of the acclaimed The Source: Guidebook for American Genealogy) as well as a host of ancestry experts from around the world, Gates and his production team comb through family stories and discover unknown histories and relatives the guests never knew existed. 'Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.' is a production of Kunhardt McGee Productions, Inkwell Films and WNET in association with Ark Media. WNET is the parent company of THIRTEEN and WLIW21, New York’s public television stations and operator of NJTV. For nearly 50 years, WNET has been producing and broadcasting national and local documentaries and other programs for the New York community.

What a neat story my friend Skip Murray wrote on her new blog.

Our Tree Became A Forest: Purple Irises
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Reviewing the first year of the Door County Advocate provides a reflection of li...

Reviewing the first year of the Door County Advocate provides a reflection of life on the slowly developing Peninsula in the middle of the 19th century. It was a time when news traveled almost as slowly as people did — and people needed three or four days to get from Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay, for example.

Door County Advocate sesquicentennial: Newspaper of 1862 was full of war news, local news and histor
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Mom's diaries are time capsule of happy family life - JSOnline
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My mother died last year, but she left behind a precious remembrance that took much of her life to create. Frances Stingl kept a diary in which she comes to life in the everyday details written from her vantage point at the center of our family.

The volunteer group I belong to Families For Forgotten Heroes is looking for vol...

The volunteer group I belong to Families For Forgotten Heroes is looking for volunteers to call the next of kin after the genealogy team finds the information for contact. For many of the families they know of the death but not the burial. If you know of anyone in the social work business, former military, funeral director, police officer any profession where the person may have had exposure to this type of contact we would love to hear from them. If they don't have internet, we can make arrangements to get them information by phone.

Wisconsin in the Spanish American War

Information about the Wisconsin Regiments that served in the Spanish American War. See More

History of the Great Lakes

Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse Keepers and Marine Biographies. See More

Linking Your Past Professional Research Service

Need help with your genealogy research? Linking Your Past Research Service is available for genealogical research for Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington Counties Wisconsin. I also do other genealogy searches. Visit Linking Your Past Website

My Family

If you are interested in any of these Manitowoc County rooted family names, please contact me.
Jonas & Chaloupka Family Ancestry--Including the surnames:
Radej (Radey), Tuma, Honzik, Jindra,
Blum, Wenholz, Carstens (Newton), Jonas, Freitag (Minnesota), Sporleder(Minnesota, Iowa)

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