Welcome Michelle and Frank! If I can help in any way as you transition into your new position please give me a "holler". And farewell to Jackie-great job! Paula WaupacaCC >From: WIGenWebProject@aol.com >Reply-To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WIGEN-L] Kenosha County ~ Welcome New Coordinators! >Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:26:09 EST > >Please join me in welcoming Michelle and Frank Laylock as the Kenosha >County >Coordinators! > >I am not certain, but I think this is the *first* husband and wife team, to >join our team! Welcome Michelle and Frank! I have updated the email >address >on the County Coordinator page >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/counties.html to reflect Michelle and >Frank's address, and added them here with all of us. > >They will be working with Jackie to transition the Kenosha pages. Jackie, >again thank you for your work with Kenosha over the years, the county has >certainly been served well! So happy that you are remaining as Juneau >County >host. > >Tina > > >==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >Celebrate Wisconsin! >Visit the Lincoln County WIGenWeb Project Pages >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilincol/ > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Bob, the site looks great -- very organized! I like your county map -- I envy you all those perfectly square sectional townships! Deana Marinette County CC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Herald" <robert.herald@worldnet.att.net> To: <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 8:49 AM Subject: [WIGEN-L] refurbished website

Bob, The website looks great and the frames seem to work perfectly.....I never did figure out frames! A lot of nice features that will help people locate their families.... Anne Florence CC

In a message dated 2/6/01 8:46:29 AM Central Standard Time, robert.herald@worldnet.att.net writes: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/ > Bob, I love the new look! Shelley Marathon/Lincoln Counties

Hi Bob, It's been along time since I have been to your site, not much time to surf I guess. I just wanted to say it looks really nice. You have done a great job, Debie Blindauer Calumet & Sheboygan Counties

Robert Herald wrote: > My site is http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/ > Thanks, > Bob Herald Wow, Bob! I really like the new look and I envy your ability to make the frames work so nicely. Congratulations on a job very well done. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Shoot me, I hit send and it sent (and nothing was in the email - grin).... C, I don't recall any place where we collective as a group have started tracing our ethnicities... It might be a good page for WI (ducking as Tina chucks a cow chip my way - grin)... However, I know that we have a LARGE Polish population in St Point, PortageCoWI which history and stuff can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/pchs_54481/archives/townships/earlypolishhist.html and general index for PortageCoWI History http://www.geocities.com/pchs_54481/index.html and there is a large group in our area which came from Pommeramia (sp) which have consistently pointed out that they are not GERMAN... main sites are http://www.execpc.com/~kap/pommern/ and history at http://www.execpc.com/~kap/pommhist.html Also, there is another project called migrations which some of us are using to track people as they came into the USA and westward.. http://www.migrations.org/ Other sources that I have found helpful (no inclusive) are: http://www.worldgenweb.org/ http://www.iarelative.com/slovakia.htm http://www.csagsi.org/ http://habitant.org/ http://genweb.net/east-european/index.html http://www.rusyn.com/ http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/NormanMadsen/ http://www.almanachdegotha.com/main_page.htm Hope this helps alittle. Great topic. R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 > Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:11:54 -0800 (PST) > From: MAK <makkuehl@yahoo.com> > To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [WIGEN-L] Ethnic Groups ===== =========================== MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" MAKs Sites http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/links/MAK.html =========================== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Hello, Clark County here. I have reorganized my page so it is not so cluttered. Over time, I kept adding more and more links to the main page and it got more and more difficult to find things - kind of like the desk in front of me... I would appreciate if some of you would take a look and offer some constructive criticisim. It is my first foray into "frames" and I may not be breaking out of them as often as I should. I would also like you to take a look at some of the FANTASTIC work that Stan & Janet Schwarze and Todd Braun have done. They are the ones mostly responsible for the "Tombstones" project. Please go to Projects->Tombstone-> and then either of the Immanuel cemeteries for the full Hoover. My site is http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiclark/ Thanks, Bob Herald

Many new items have been added to the Waupaca County site this past month. Stop by and check them out. Additions have been made to the following pages: American Indian Research,Biographies, Books, Cemeteries, Family and Folk Foto, Births of Waupaca County, Deaths of Waupaca County, WAGS, Look Ups, etc. etc. With 120 biographies added during the month of January there are presently 945 biographies on the page. http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/WaupacaBios Also a new page has just been added - Directories and Telephone Books - This page will have transcriptions from business directories, city directories and telephone books. Currently on-line transcriptions for Clintonville, Embarrass, Fremont, Northport, Parfreyville and Symco from Wisconsin State Gazetteer Business Directory 1895-1896 Volume IX by R. L. Polk & Co. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/Directories/DirIndex.htm Have a great week and happy hunting! Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

--- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Subj: European Families WI to O. T. > Date: 2/3/01 6:20:12 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: CeilsCorner@cs.com > To: WIGenWebProject > > All of which brings me to my questions regarding WI before 1900: > > 1. Searching the GenConnect board for specific places like > "Bohemia" has yielded little. "Germany" or "German" cover so much > area that I could be missing that needle in the proverbial haystack, > but I haven't seen any case where the general search has turned up > information on one of these families that the specific search has > missed. Is there some other term I should be trying? Something that > might be unique to the WI area that an Okie wouldn't know about? > > 2. Do you know of anyone working on something similar for ethnic > clusters anywhere in WI? My biggest problem is that I don't even have > a county for any of these families. > > Thank you for listening! > > Sharon McAllister > > ______________________________ ===== =========================== MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" MAKs Sites http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/links/MAK.html =========================== __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

MAK, My fault, I needed the password again. I had computer problems and had to reload everything. Forgot to write down the password. Thanks Tina for forwarding. Sandi

Hi Everyone, Copied below is a note I received from Sharon McAllister, a CC in Indian Territory part of the OKGenWeb. I personally do not know the answers to her questions, but asked if I could pass this along to WI CC's for your thoughts. With her permission, I am passing it along. I am cc'ing her on this note so you can reply all, and she should receive. Sharon's pages can be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~itsac/ Thanks, Tina _______ Subj: European Families WI to O. T. Date: 2/3/01 6:20:12 PM Eastern Standard Time From: CeilsCorner@cs.com To: WIGenWebProject Hi, Tina! I'm the one in the chat room this afternoon who threatened you with WI questions <G. I have a couple of fairly simple ones, but they will make a lot more sense if I give you the background first: We've been collecting information on the Founding Families of Luther for several years. I started by identifying all of the homesteaders who received the original patents in that township and the one immediately to the west [which was opened first]. Then expanded to include any families known to be in one of those two townships or one of the other seven that adjoin Luther in Territorial Days [1889-1907]. Then started including families in the surrounding area who were related to those in the Luther area -- so we are now covering northeastern Oklahoma County, southeastern Logan County, and part of western Lincoln Co. Of course, there was a LOT of intermarriage among the old families -- and I was pleasantly surprised by how many previous relationships we could identify and trace clusters to their former homes. Some are extended families. Some related by marriage. Some former neighbors that may or may not be related. The immigrants who came from the area then controlled by Germany pose a special problem, beyond the usual one of spelling variations for surnames. We have a group of families from what was once Galicia, who identify themselves as Polish. We have a number who identify themselves as Bohemian, others as Moravian. At least one as Hungarian. BUT some of the census takers had a lamentable habit of recording only "Germany", even if that particular area wasn't under German control when the individual was born. I'm in the process of re-working my separate pages to present a general one for the region, yet maintain any specific locations that are known. Sooooo...... Since I often can identify the state where one of these families lived before moving to O.T., I've been out surfin' the net looking for clues. I've pretty much struck out searching for specific surnames because there are so many spelling variations. I'm delighted just to find someone else researching one of these ethnic clusters in one of those areas -- even if we don't spot a link I may gain some historical insight. All of which brings me to my questions regarding WI before 1900: 1. Searching the GenConnect board for specific places like "Bohemia" has yielded little. "Germany" or "German" cover so much area that I could be missing that needle in the proverbial haystack, but I haven't seen any case where the general search has turned up information on one of these families that the specific search has missed. Is there some other term I should be trying? Something that might be unique to the WI area that an Okie wouldn't know about? 2. Do you know of anyone working on something similar for ethnic clusters anywhere in WI? My biggest problem is that I don't even have a county for any of these families. Thank you for listening! Sharon McAllister

MAK, Nope, needed the new password, I never received it after it was changed the last time. As for being lost in a box, well I had wondered why I felt so cramped and confined for a last several months.<VBG> Debie Blindauer At 10:55 AM 2/4/01 -0800, you wrote: >Tina, I hope there was enough oxygen in the inbox for TWO adults!!! > >Sandi and Debie, you probably don't need a new password, as when the >server was >down it wouldn't let anyone in the archives for a few days, although it would >let us in other accounts??? Just a quirk I noticed last week... > >R/S MAK

Tina, I hope there was enough oxygen in the inbox for TWO adults!!! Sandi and Debie, you probably don't need a new password, as when the server was down it wouldn't let anyone in the archives for a few days, although it would let us in other accounts??? Just a quirk I noticed last week... R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Sandi.. no, I will forward to you in a separate email.. Debie you too! I > apologize you both got lost in my inbox! > > Tina > ===== =========================== MAK = "Mar sea ah Ann Keel" MAKs Sites http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood/links/MAK.html =========================== __________________________________________________ Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

In a message dated 2/2/01 8:46:08 PM Eastern Standard Time, SaunderaL@aol.com writes: > Did the password change again for the WI Archives? If so, would you send it > to me. Thanks, > > Sandi > > > Sandi.. no, I will forward to you in a separate email.. Debie you too! I apologize you both got lost in my inbox! Tina

First, both links work to the OC site. This 150th anniversary of OC has started with a "bang". The major posting is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/loggingholtmain.htm EARLY DAYS IN THE LUMBER BUSINESS - Written by W.A. Holt, later mayor of Oconto city, this is a first hand "big picture" look at county lumbering from the view of the owner's son, who learned the business literally from the ground up. Lots and Lots of old photos have been added and a last section give a brief Holt family genealogy and the same on several of the men who spent most of their lives with the company. This posting contains gobs of old county surnames. Everything, suchover 100 new and old obituaries from the last 120+ years; family news, marriages, births, and deaths from the first half of 1883 newspapers; two new family pages; NEW Peshitgo Fire (1871) survivors and fatalities pages by Cathe Z; surname list additions and much more. Please come see! http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/lnewest.htm

Did the password change again for the WI Archives? If so, would you send it to me. Thanks, Sandi

Hi all, As part of USGenWeb Project at GenTech 2001, there will be a mIRC chat on Saturday, February 3, 2001. Several USGenWeb volunteers will be present at the conference, and will be connected to these chats. Please join in, and meet your fellow volunteers. To find out more about GenTech 2001 and USGenWeb Project's participation in it, visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/gentech.html There will be two sessions: Date: February 3, 2001 Place: IRC server: irc.rootsweb.com (6667) Room: #usgw@gentech Time: 10:30 a.m. CTS 2:00 p.m. CTS If you need to download and set up mIRC visit: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/irc-chat.html Hope to see you all there! Tina

A little something to brighten a winter day. Hope you don't mind. Rita - Oconto County On a tattoo parlor: "Your body is a temple; we just paint the walls." Sign at a radiator shop: (A-1 Radiator) "Best place to take a leak." Sign over a gynecologist's office: "Dr. Jones, at your cervix." On a Plumbers truck: "We repair what your husband fixed." On the trucks of a local plumbing company in NE Pennsylvania: "Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber." Pizza shop slogan: "7 days without pizza makes one weak." At a tire shop in Milwaukee: "Invite us to your next blowout." Door of a plastic surgeon's office: "Hello. Can we pick your nose?" At a laundry shop: "How about we refund your money, send you a new one at no charge, close the store and have the manager shot. Would that be satisfactory?" At a towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want your tows." On an electrician's truck: "Let us remove your shorts." In a non-smoking area: "If we see smoke, we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action." On a maternity room door: "Push. Push, Push." At a optometrist's office: "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place." On a taxidermist's window: "We really know our stuff." In a podiatrist's office: "Time wound's all heels." On a fence: "Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive." At a car dealership: "The best way to get back on your feet - is miss a car payment." Outside a muffler shop: "No appointment necessary. We hear you coming." In a veterinarian's waiting room: "Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!" At the electric company: "We would be delighted if you send in your bill. However, if you don't, you will be." In a restaurant window: "Don't stand there and be hungry. Come on in and get fed up." In the front yard of a funeral home: "Drive carefully. We'll wait."

Reporting in for Crawford and Richland Counties. New on Richland - Index of 1906 History of Richland County. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wirichla/1906indx.htm Tim