Thanks for all your input, people! I got a lot of good feedback, enough where I'd have to write too many individual Thank You messages. So I hope all those who responded will accept my public Thank You! The auction closed at $86 and <redmondb@tznet.com> bought it. Sure hope s/he is a part of this list & offers to do lookups! Hey, seems fair! After all, the book covers Waupaca & Shawano counties, as well as others. ;-) Mark, if they're on microfilm, d'you think the FHC might have a copy? Marsha Mark Johnson wrote: > > Hard to say that its worth $61, but I found a reference to my great grandfather Carl Schroeder in the counterpart Biographical Record for Brown County which listed some details of his business and political affiliation which no one in the family had any knowledge of. > > I looked for my Oconto family in the Biographical Records which included Oconto County, but didn't find mention of them. It seems that if you were an ordinary farmer who stuck to the farm, you weren't mentioned. But townspeople, especially businessmen who needed public notoriety, did get a short bio. > > Someone has put most, if not all these bios on microfilm. I found a very complete collection in the Dallas Texas public library. > > Date forwarded: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:21:44 -0700 (PDT) > Date sent: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 19:21:09 -0500 > From: Marsha Wilcox <mwilcox@lnd.com> > Organization: Perpetually Behind! > Subject: [WauShaOcon-L] Need advice on a book at auction > To: WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com > Forwarded by: WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi listers! > > The following book is up for auction at e-Bay. > > "BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF WAUPACA, PORTAGE, WOOD, MARATHON, LINCOLN, > ONEIDA, VILAS, LANGDALE and SHAWANO COUNTIES, WISCONSIN- (1895)- Huge 10 > pound book ! Thick cover (leather)is loose but still attached. Back > cover separated from the book. Text is complete, tight and in good > condition. A candidate for being rebound, but hey, a great source! > Current bid: $61.00 > > Is anybody familiar with this book? Is it worth going much higher for? > I'm very tempted! > > Happy Hunting! > Marsha Wilcox