At 04:23 PM 8/3/00 -0700, Diana Morse <tdmorse@earthlink.net>wrote: >in WSGS newsletter dated June 1, 1983 there is a partial list of people in a >Union Cemetery in Big Creek. does anyone know where Big Creek Wisconsin is?... This is an interesting sleuthing problem. I'd guess you found this reference in PERSI. If you had actually seen the WSGS newsletter, it would have told you at least what county the cemetery was in, and probably detailed its location pretty precisely. Coming at your problem from a different angle, you could consult the book "Wisconsin, Its Counties, Townships & Villages" (published in 1994 by Origins, Janesville, WI). It states that the only place in Wisconsin called Big Creek is in Monroe County, but they couldn't figure out in what township. Not having read your query carefully enough (you clearly stated the name of the cemetery was Union, but somehow I skipped over that and thought "Big Creek" might be the *name* of the cemetery, rather than its location), I looked in another very useful book published by Origins ("Cemetery Locations in Wisconsin", 1998, 1999). It lists three Big Creek Cemeteries, in Monroe, Sauk and Juneau Counties. Finally, I looked at the list of cemetery inscriptions on the WSGS web site (www.wsgs.org). The only Big Creek Cemetery for which transcriptions have been published in their newsletter is in Sparta Township, Monroe County. I'd certainly conclude that this is the location you want. Later: Having now looked at PERSI myself on the Ancestry web site, I have to take back my guess that you found this reference in PERSI. The relevant information from this search is that the rest of the transcription appeared in the April 1983 issue of the WSGS newsletter. You can get copies of these transciptions from WSGS--ordering details are on their website. I've had my sleuthing fun for the night. Back to work! Rollie