Janet Flynn <[email protected]> wrote 3 Feb 1999: > The index doesn't list the precinct in Monroe Co. If I can get to a > reader, > I'll look at the 1840 roll on Friday when I'm at the library for our > monthly > MCGS help day. > > If it's the Madonnaville area there's a Catholic church there which was > founded by the JAMES family of Monroe City - Immaculate Conception (not to > be > confused with Immaculate Conception in Columbia). > >snip Thank you very much for writing, Janet, and for offering to help locate this family in Monroe County. And, I appreciate you including the history of Immaculate Conception Church of Madonnaville. We'll have to see if Immaculate Conception is the parish for this family. In the fall of 1997, after 28 years of research, I finally traced the last one of my 13 immigrant ancestors to their hometown in Germany. That only happens once in the life of a genealogist, if they're lucky. After finally locating the baptismal record of this last ancestor on an LDS film, I celebrated by going out and buying a big box of chocolates for the volunteers at the FHC that day. Then I went home and opened a bottle of champagne. Now, I'm working on my wife Janet's 11 immigrant ancestors, and still have 4 to trace -- Henry & Catherine [SCHEUERING] LANG, and two others. Tracing these LANGs would be the best because her maiden name is LANG. Best Regards from Wisconsin. Daniel Daniel J. Kortenkamp, Ph.D. [email protected] Dept. of Psychology University of Wisconsin fax: 715 346-2778 Stevens Point, WI 54481 http://www.uwsp.edu/acad/psych/dk/danielpg.htm