Depending on when your grandfather was born, and whether he became a citizen, you might check the "enemy alien" registrations, naturalization records, and/or WWI draft registrations. The NARA site has the naturalization and enemy alien records; the LDS has draft registrations; I found WWI draft registrations in the usgenweb site for the county in Idaho that I was looking for; maybe your Wisconsin counties will also have something; http://userdb.rootsweb.com/naturalization/?sourceid=00306601885877606251&key =Uhttp%3A%2F%2Fuserdb%2Erootsweb%2Ecom%2Fnaturalization%2F&rc=locale%7E&us=0 http://www.archives.gov/aad/ Alice Harman Digging for Roots in the Haarmann Garden aharman@willamette.edu *** Looking for DONSBACH *** of any spelling in Wisconsin and Illinois Karen Schrade wrote: > Hi all, I now have in my hands a copy of my g grandfather's death > cert. > yay! I sent to madison for it last september and after six months i > got a > notice that they couldn't find it. I called the milwaukee register of > deeds > at the suggestion of people from this list and they said, 'if madison > doesn't have it, we don't have it'. I whined and begged and the nice > lady > checked. She came back on the phone about two minutes later and gave > me the > volume and page number. Yay! So, now I have it. > > It did tell me some things i didn't know before, like my g > grandfather's > birth date, fathers name, and cause of death. The one thing that has > me > going a little crazy is his place of birth. Everything i find just > says 'germany'. I have the death cert, his dec of intent, and i found > him in 'germans to america'. Nowhere does it give me any more info. > > Now, to my question...if the dec of intent just says germany is it > likely > that the second papers would be more specific or would that just be a > waste > of time and effort? The 1930 census for my grandparents says that my > grandmother's father 'was born in Hesse and spoke German'. I don't > think i > can trust that, though, since it also says that her mother was born in > wisconsin and she was actually born in Pomern and came to wisconsin > when > she was an infant. > > Any suggestions as to where I might find more definite info about his > birth > place would be appreciated. Thanks, friends, Karen > > > ==== GERMANS-WI Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe from LIST mode. > Send a message to GERMANS-WI-L-request@rootsweb.com > that contains (in the body of the message) the command UNSUBSCRIBE > and no additional text. --- > How to unsubscribe from DIGEST mode. > Send a message to GERMANS-WI-D-request@rootsweb.com > that contains (in the body of the message) the command UNSUBSCRIBE > and no additional text.