Was there a mortality schedule for the 1890 U.S.Census? If so, did it also meet the same fate as the census, i.e., destroyed by fire? I'm particularly interested in Waukesha, WI. Thanks to any who can respond to this query. Happy hunting, Michael Dellger

Several people gave me this response. Now I know why when I did an internet search for Kilbourne City on http://www.dogpile.com, Wisconsin Dells came up! Thanks, kk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Callen Harty" <charty@tds.net> To: <GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 1:33 AM Subject: Re: [GenWisconsin] Kilbourne City I'm pretty certain that Kilbourn City was the original name of Wisconsin's big tourist attraction, Wisconsin Dells. Callen Harty Monona, WI >Saw a name on an old marriage record that had a birth place supposed to >be in Wisconsin. > >It looked something like: > > "Kilbourne City" > >Anybody every heard of it? Could this be an obsolete place name? > >Thanks, > > Kevin Kelly > > > > >==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > > ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ====

Kevin, Kilbourn City was renamed Wisconsin Dells in 1931. reference: http://www.wisdells.com/about/timeline.htm Located in Columbia County, Shari Wisconsin, USA

I'm pretty certain that Kilbourn City was the original name of Wisconsin's big tourist attraction, Wisconsin Dells. Callen Harty Monona, WI >Saw a name on an old marriage record that had a birth place supposed to >be in Wisconsin. > >It looked something like: > > "Kilbourne City" > >Anybody every heard of it? Could this be an obsolete place name? > >Thanks, > > Kevin Kelly > > > > >==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > >

Yes according to "Cow book" it Kilborn City is now Wis. Dells Lenora from Wisconsin

http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi United States Town/County Database -- Interactive Search Results for City: Kilb State: WI City State County Kilbournville WI Racine County Kevin Kelly wrote: > Saw a name on an old marriage record that had a birth place supposed to > be in Wisconsin. > > It looked something like: > > "Kilbourne City" > > Anybody every heard of it? Could this be an obsolete place name? > > Thanks, > > Kevin Kelly > > ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ====

Saw a name on an old marriage record that had a birth place supposed to be in Wisconsin. It looked something like: "Kilbourne City" Anybody every heard of it? Could this be an obsolete place name? Thanks, Kevin Kelly

Hi, I deleted the recent DVORAK queries posted to the list, so I don't have their personal e-mail addresses. I thought this might interest the people posting the queries though. Chris The following info is from: http://news.excite.com/news/ap/000629/12/ent-ap-on-tv-dvorak-in-iowa. Documentary Shows Dvorak in Iowa Updated 12:05 PM ET June 29, 2000 By CHUCK SCHOFFNER, Associated Press Writer SPILLVILLE, Iowa (AP) - To a modern visitor, the verdant, undulating countryside around this northeast Iowa town looks like a Grant Wood painting. To Czech composer Antonin Dvorak in the 1890s, it looked like home. While living in the United States as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York, Dvorak spent the summer of 1893 in Spillville, a town of 390 that works hard to keep memories of that visit alive. Dvorak's time in this country and its influences on his music are examined in the documentary "Dvorak and America," to be shown Monday at 10 p.m. Eastern on PBS. "Everything was motivated by the music," said New York filmmaker Lucille Carra, who wrote, directed and co-produced the film. "It's music-driven, so we tried to find emotional points to the music to use." Shortly before leaving for Japan to work on her documentary "The Inland Sea," Carra had heard Dvorak's most famous work, Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (From the New World), popularly known as the New World Symphony, on the radio. "I just really listened, maybe for the first time, and kind of took it in," Carra said. Not long after that, Carra and her co-producer, Brian Cotnoir, got stuck in the mud on a mountaintop in Japan. As they worked to extricate themselves, they heard bells pealing in the distance. The music was from the Largo, or the "Going Home" segment, of the New World Symphony. It was 6 p.m., going-home time in Japan. "Then we bought some CDs and it was like it all came together," Carra said. "I was reading the liner notes, and about Spillville, and everything occurred to me. It just snowballed from there." The film follows Dvorak's move from Bohemia - a region in the Czech Republic - to America, and looks at the relationships he forged while living in this country from 1892 until 1895. Dvorak opened the National Conservatory to all comers, including African-Americans. Black composers Harry T. Burleigh and Will Marion Cook were among his students, and they opened his eyes to a new form of music. "He gets invited to New York to start this grand conservatory of music, to crystallize and develop an American musical tradition," said Chris Rossi, executive director of Humanities Iowa, which helped fund the film. "So he gets here and finds that well, by golly, we already have an American musical tradition and it's embedded in the Negro spiritual." When Dvorak pointed that out in an article he wrote for the New York Herald, run under the headline "Real Value of Negro Melodies," he helped legitimize African-American music. He also stirred up a furor among traditionalists. "Here was this quaint, shy, awkward person who comes and sees something about us that Americans are not seeing themselves," said Peter Alexander, a musicologist at the University of Iowa. "What sounds American to anybody in the world - Broadway, jazz, pop music - that all comes from the African-American influence. Dvorak somehow foresaw that. "This film stresses that very, very successfully." It also stresses the importance of Dvorak's time in Spillville, where Carra and her crew spent several days filming and talking to residents. Dvorak had been invited to Spillville by musician Josef Kovarik, who had studied in Prague and felt the Iowa town, which had been settled by Bohemians, would give the renowned composer and his family a taste of home. It did. The film shows how Dvorak delighted in the rural landscapes, his morning walks along the Turkey River, the singing of the birds and the oinking of pigs. He wrote to a friend about the "endless acres of field and meadow," the herds of cattle dotting the pastures and the graves of Czech countrymen "who sleep their last sleep here." While in Spillville, Dvorak composed the String Quartet in F Major and String Quintet in E Flat. In a letter to a friend the day before leaving, Dvorak referred to those two pieces and the New World Symphony when he wrote, "I should never have written these works just so if I hadn't seen America." The house in which Dvorak and his family stayed is now a museum, the first floor showcasing a collection of extravagantly carved clocks and the second floor devoted to Dvorak. The displays include two organs on which he composed and a violin he was believed to have played. Dvorak also composed on the massive, 18-foot-tall pipe organ that sits in a loft above the entrance to St. Wenceslaus church. The organ, bought for $1,100 in 1876, underwent a $45,000 restoration in 1996 and is still used. "When you put Iowa smack in the middle of the film, it pops out at you," Carra said. "You really see the kind of music he wrote in Spillville. It's smaller format. He wrote more chamber music. But musically, it holds a lot of weight." --- On the Net: www.pbs.org/dvorak/

Seek marriage of a Lila OZIOS/OSIAS and a McCarthy about 1860's Wisconsin. Lila was born 1845-1848 in Prairie du Chien, Crawford County to Louis OSIAS/OZIOS. Thanks Karen

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Does anyone know where I might find something on the Civil War to see if my Ische was "a water boy" (he was 40 years old at the time) in the Civil Ware - from Milwaukee, WIS> Lenora from Wisconsin

Lenora- The Wisconsin Civil War Roster is online at the State Historical Library site. Here is the address you can see the roster at: http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/roster/index.html I do not know though if they listed "water or bugle boys" Good luck Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm >From: BrennaJne@aol.com >Reply-To: GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com >To: GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GenWisconsin] Civil War >Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 08:20:50 EDT > >Does anyone know where I might find something on the Civil War to see if my >Ische was "a water boy" (he was 40 years old at the time) in the Civil Ware >- >from Milwaukee, WIS> > >Lenora from Wisconsin > > >==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Try the LaCrosse Public Library, for a small fee, you can obtain copies of obituaries for the area-LaCrosse, Black River Falls, Melrose, Hixton, etc. -----Original Message----- From: janet enloe To: GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com <GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 4:12 PM Subject: [GenWisconsin] Jackson Co obit lookup >I need an obit looked up and wondered if some kind soul would help me. The obit I need is for Perle PICKETT d 23 May 1991 in Alma Center, Jackson Co., WI > >Thanks in advance. > >Janet Enloe in Monarch, MT > > >==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > >

I need an obit looked up and wondered if some kind soul would help me. The obit I need is for Perle PICKETT d 23 May 1991 in Alma Center, Jackson Co., WI Thanks in advance. Janet Enloe in Monarch, MT

Hi Janet, Are you lucky! Just happen to be going to Jackson Counties tomorrow and possibly Saturday as well. I'll "PICKETT" up for you... (sorry, I couldn't resist...) The Jackson County Biographies will be posted very soon to the WIGenExchange Bio page. All the Dodge County bios will be up by the end of tonight (850). Kenosha, Lafayette, and Racine area already posted . The County Coordinators for Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Green, Juneau and Walworth are loading the bios from these counties. Accompanying photographs will be added soon to the Kenosha bios and others. You can view the complete list of thosands of bios on the WI site at http://www.genexchange.org/histories.cfm?state=wi Happy hunting! Cathy Kubly, State Coordinator, WIGenExchange Help keep genealogy FREE... volunteer at the GenExchange Adopt a WIGenExchange County: http://www.genexchange.org/counties.cfm?state=wi

Hi list, I have a question...how would you go about finding orphan records from 1903, in Douglas, County? Or some kind of health records from anytime in the early 1900�s? Anna ===== Be nice to the earth...she can live without us. Whispering Feather Web Site: http://whisperingfeather.homestead.com/ Jarl (JL) Olson (cancer update page). http://whisperingfeather.homestead.com/JLupdate.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

I just got a lead on one of my "brick wall" lines and I am hoping someone out there can help me find further information. Searching for Norman GERARD/GIRARD's death date/certificate. He was living in Grand Rapids, Wood County, WI in 1900 at the age of 70. He was widowed and living as a boarder at hotel. Prior to living in Wood County, he was living in Omro Township, Winnebago County, WI. Or can anyone tell me how Norman was related to a Samuel Girard of Waupaca County, WI? Any help, no matter how small, would really be appreciated. Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Marcia, Thanks, I`ve book marked this one too! Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: MAK <makkuehl@yahoo.com> To: <GenWisconsin-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 8:19 AM Subject: [GenWisconsin] New Resource for Central WI Genealogists - FREE > A big thank you to Joan Benner and the Lester's who made this project possible. > > > R/S MAK > > Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:49:48 -0500 > From: joan benner <jmbenner@tznet.com> > To: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WIWOOD] Nekoosa Library Genealogy Collection > > M. A. Kuehl and I are pleased to announce there is now another collection > of library resources of interest to central WI genealogists. As some of you > know, I have been busy the past six months as Nekoosa Library's genealogy > collection development coordinator, and the project is nearly complete, > with funding generously provided by Charles and JoAnn (Alexander) Lester. > > Genealogists with roots in Adams, Wood, Monroe, Juneau, Jackson, Waushara, > Clark, Portage, parts of Trempealeau and Eau Claire counties will want to > check http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/Nekoosa/ Check back again later and > we hope to have a list online of available resources, including cemetery, > vital record and newspaper indexes and some genealogy CD's. Thanks also to > M. A. Kuehl, who donated space for the page on Wood Co rootsweb for > the Library's genealogy collection. > > > > ===== > ===== > TheStorm http://www.rootsweb.com/TheStorm > MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > > ==== GenWisconsin Mailing List ==== > > >

A big thank you to Joan Benner and the Lester's who made this project possible. R/S MAK Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 07:49:48 -0500 From: joan benner <jmbenner@tznet.com> To: WIWOOD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [WIWOOD] Nekoosa Library Genealogy Collection M. A. Kuehl and I are pleased to announce there is now another collection of library resources of interest to central WI genealogists. As some of you know, I have been busy the past six months as Nekoosa Library's genealogy collection development coordinator, and the project is nearly complete, with funding generously provided by Charles and JoAnn (Alexander) Lester. Genealogists with roots in Adams, Wood, Monroe, Juneau, Jackson, Waushara, Clark, Portage, parts of Trempealeau and Eau Claire counties will want to check http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/Nekoosa/ Check back again later and we hope to have a list online of available resources, including cemetery, vital record and newspaper indexes and some genealogy CD's. Thanks also to M. A. Kuehl, who donated space for the page on Wood Co rootsweb for the Library's genealogy collection. ===== ===== TheStorm http://www.rootsweb.com/TheStorm MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/

Any chance any of them could be Holz.... My grandmother's second husband was Louis Holz, I have a very limited amount of info on him and his first family........ Descendants of Herman Holz 1 Herman Holz - +Elianor Groenke ------- 2 [1] Louis Herman Holz b: 16 April 1892 in Green Bay, Wisconsin d: 16 September 1950 in St Michael's Hospital Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ---------- +First Wife Holz ---------------- 3 Gertude A. Holz b: 16 April 1916 d: 16 December 1990 ------- *2nd Wife of [1] Louis Herman Holz: ---------- +MARGARET CHRISTINE EMILE VIERKANDT b: 26 December 1900 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin d: January 1983 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin I believe he had more children than just Gertude, I have many of his personal records, but to tell you the truth, since he is not my direct, and I own the affects, I have been slow to go thru them. He died before I was born, so I never knew him. I do know that he converted to Lutheran to marry my Grandmother, but is buried in a Catholic cemetery next to his first wife.... Let me know if your interested. Iris