In a message dated 8/10/98 12:27:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time, CThomas717@aol.com writes: << I do not know if Palmyra, Wisconsin was a Mormon community or not dought it. But the Mormon church has been doing family history work for over 150 years. there lib. would be a good place to look. They have Lib. all over the world. >> Many of the Michigan and Wisconsin towns were founded by former residents of New York...it seems to have been a natural migration pattern. While LDS think of Palmyra as LDS because of our history there...it certainly was a town like any other town in that people of all faiths and occupations lived there and some moved on. On the other hand, if this Palmyra was founded during the Nauvoo period when LDS went up the Mississippi to begin pineries to supply lumber for the building of the city, then it is possible that there could have been an LDS influence. However I was under the impression that those were pretty much logging camps. I believe there was an offshoot group after the death of Joseph Smith which headed north to establish themselves....but I am unsure of their exact location..and they certainly didn't last long. Michele Brooks