This may be of intrest to those that do research in Wisconsin.. Glenn > > > Dear colleague, > > I thought the two short texts inserted below my signature might > interest people who moderate local email lists or edit newsletters. > Feel free to run them in your printed or email newsletter, forward > them to your members, or place a link anywhere on a site you maintain. > If you want to expand or edit these paragraphs, feel free to visit the > web sites below and select any text there that would be helpful. > > If this message isn't appropriate for your organization, please accept > my apologies. I thought the people with whom you communicate might > like to learn about these two new services at the Wisconsin Historical > Society's Web site. > > Best wishes, > > Michael Edmonds > Deputy Director > Library/Archives Division > Wisconsin Historical Society > 608-264-6538 > > > > 1. "Wisconsin Local History on the Web" > > The Wisconsin Historical Society Library recently mounted more > collections on the World Wide Web for genealogists and local > historians. > > "Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles" > (www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/index.asp) contains nearly 16,000 > local newspaper articles published statewide between 1860 and 1940. > These consist mainly of pioneer reminiscences, portraits of community > institutions, interviews with early settlers, strange anecdotes of > eccentric personalities, and other grass-roots information. These real > stories of real people have not been altered in any way; images of the > original newspaper articles display on the researcher's screen. All of > them are easy to search by personal name or a variety of subject > headings, > about 50,000 pages of local history and genealogy in all. > > There is no charge to use this collection. It is made possible by > funding from the Wisconsin Dept. of Public instruction through the > Library Services and Technology Act and through a very generous > donation from the late Scott M. Cutlip, a UW-Madison professor of mass > communications. > > If you have any questions about the website, contact Michael Edmonds, > Deputy Director, Library/Archives Division, Wisconsin Historical > Society, at miedmonds@whs.wisc.edu, or use the feedback buttons on the > web site. > > > 2. "Order Wisconsin Vital Records Online" > > A new online service from the Wisconsin Historical Society lets you > order a search of Wisconsin's pre-1907 birth, marriage and death > records over the Internet. > > Vital records are a fundamental information source for genealogists. > They can reveal minute details about a person such as birth, marriage > or death date, birth place, maiden name, and religious affiliation, as > well as information about their parents. Genealogists use them as > stepping stones to other valuable sources such as obituaries and > census records. > > Requesting a search online is quite simple. After receiving your > instructions and credit card payment via our secure Web site, staff > trained in researching Wisconsin vital records will carefully search > for the records you specify and send photocopies of their findings. > All orders are guaranteed to ship within 4 weeks; rush service is also > available for an additional charge. For more information, including > the fee schedule, visit the Society's Online Genealogical Research > Service at > > http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/ogrs/index.html > > or contact Michael Edmonds, Deputy Director, Library/Archives > Division, Wisconsin Historical Society, at historydocs@whs.wisc.edu > > > > > ==== KYHOPKIN Mailing List ==== > Hopkins County Homepage: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyhopkin/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.333 / Virus Database: 187 - Release Date: 3/8/02