Nance Sampson wrote: > > Yup, my Wisconsin State Atlas shows that Brodhead is in Green County -- right > on the eastern border of Rock County. And there is a small town by the name of > Avon in Rock County, located almost directly south and a little east from > Brodhead. So do you think the cemetery is located between the two? > > -- > Nance > mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net > Duh, I'm having a bad brain day! I meant to say that Brodhead is next to the WESTERN border of Rock County. Sorry about that! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Deana Hipke wrote: > The correct spelling is Brodhead. It is in Southern Wisconsin, in Green > County (near the border of Rock County). > Yup, my Wisconsin State Atlas shows that Brodhead is in Green County -- right on the eastern border of Rock County. And there is a small town by the name of Avon in Rock County, located almost directly south and a little east from Brodhead. So do you think the cemetery is located between the two? -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

The correct spelling is Brodhead. It is in Southern Wisconsin, in Green County (near the border of Rock County). ----- Original Message ----- From: <WIGenWebProject@aol.com> To: <WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 4:31 PM Subject: [WIGEN-L] Fwd: cemetery project > Hi everyone, > > I received this question below. The only Broadhead, I find is in Pondera > MT.. any of you want to claim it for WI? > > Thanks, > Tina > > i am looking for info on a couple buried in Avon Cemetery near Broadhead, > WI. Can you help me? Their names are Ray Woodley Matson & Clara (Daisy) > Matson.

The issue is being investigated, and steps taken to assist all of us in presenting our pages. The chat Wednesday evening, and follow-up discussion on the list will be helpful, and I encourage you all to attend. Tina In a message dated 9/4/00 10:32:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pajolova@hotmail.com writes: > Tina- > > Can't something be done about this also as they are in violation to a > copyright through the USGenWeb Project? > > Paula

There has been some discussion lately on the SC list and other lists of a site that charges for access and appears to be mostly links to other people's online data. It does this by using frames and frequently it appears as if the off-site data is actually part of the site. Several USGenWeb data pages have been located on this site. There are some things we can do with our pages to make it clear where a visitor is and to help them break out of the frame. Wednesday evening, at our regularly scheduled chat, I have invited Joy Fisher, SDGenWeb, SC and Holly Timm, NYGenWeb, SC to discuss page identification/linking problems. I have also extended the invitation to NYGenWeb CC's as well. For those of you who can't attend Wednesday evening, I will post a synopsis of the chat to this list Thursday. WIGenWeb Project Meetings Place: IRC server: irc.rootsweb.com (6667) Room: #USGW-WI Time: 9 PM EST Wednesdays http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/irc-chat.html Tina

Tina- Can't something be done about this also as they are in violation to a copyright through the USGenWeb Project? Paula >From: WIGenWebProject@aol.com >To: WIGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WIGEN-L] Wednesday Night Chat Topic. >Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 22:07:20 EDT > >There has been some discussion lately on the SC list and other lists >of a site that charges for access and appears to be mostly >links to other people's online data. > >It does this by using frames and frequently it appears as if the off-site >data is actually part of the site. Several USGenWeb data pages >have been located on this site. There are some things we can do with >our pages to make it clear where a visitor is and to help them break out >of the frame. > >Wednesday evening, at our regularly scheduled chat, I have invited Joy >Fisher, SDGenWeb, SC and Holly Timm, NYGenWeb, SC to discuss page >identification/linking problems. I have also extended the invitation to >NYGenWeb CC's as well. For those of you who can't attend Wednesday >evening, I will post a synopsis of the chat to this list Thursday. > >WIGenWeb Project Meetings >Place: IRC server: irc.rootsweb.com (6667) >Room: #USGW-WI >Time: 9 PM EST Wednesdays >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/irc-chat.html > >Tina > > >==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >Visit the Dane County WIGenWeb Project Pages >http://www.rootsweb.com/~widane/ > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

>>Debie & Joe wrote: >> >> > Ancestry has more problems then just the marriages being wrong. I have >> > brought it to their attention, but it appears they will do nothing to let >> > the researcher know of it and in the end, it is going to confuse alot of >> > people. > > >And this is information that they charge for. HA-HA! Isn't it grand to get paid to screw people up? LOL! Sorry, couldn't resist!

In a message dated 9/4/00 1:31:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, MrsGrinnin@aol.com writes: > Can I have a day off now, Tina? > Not only you Debbie, but each of you! I can't thank you all enough for the dedication and resources that you all provide to your county sites and to the WIGenWeb Project. Enjoy, the rest of your holiday weekend, with family and friends! Tina

The following cemetery has been added to the Fond du Lac county page: Mt. Pleasant/Kinwood Cemetery, town of Oakfield can be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wifonddu/resources/cemeteries/mt_pleasant_oak.htm Tracy

Hello all: This weeks additions to the Pierce County site: Updated pre-1907 Death index (this is now a complete listing of the holdings at the state level) The 1855 State Census is now online as well More family photos were added. Can I have a day off now, Tina? Debbie http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/

>Debie & Joe wrote: > > > Ancestry has more problems then just the marriages being wrong. I have > > brought it to their attention, but it appears they will do nothing to >let > > the researcher know of it and in the end, it is going to confuse alot >of > > people. And this is information that they charge for. HA-HA! _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Just a reminder to stop by the Wisconsin Chat tonight. See you there 9:00 p.m. EST. http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm Paula _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.

Hi Nance, Thank you for letting me know this. I only knew of St. Croix and Sheboygan from doing research in Madison. The State library there has a notice saying that Sheboygan and St. Croix was switched. That was back about 8 years ago, so perhaps they found out more by now and I am just behind. I will post a message to my county to let the researchers know, then I will need to dig back through my outbox and find the person I sent to St. Croix county, perhaps I continued to mess this up by doing that. Have a great weekend, Debie >Hi Debie, > >I appreciate your trying to straighten the birth index situation out. But not >only is there a mixup with the Sheboygan/St. Croix county records -- it's all >the "s" counties. Here is what is posted at the ARC's: > >The statewide index for counties that begin with an S are indexed under the >wrong county name: >St. Croix is indexed as Sauk >Sauk is indexed as Sawyer >Sawyer is indexed as Shawano >Shawano is indexed as Sheboygan >Sheboygan is indexed as St. Croix. > >So the problem is even bigger! > >-- >Nance >mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Here is a listing of the activities of the some of the counties I've been working on for this week: Burnett County -- The following surnames were added to our Surname page this week: BABCOCK, BAILEY, GERUNG, and PARDUN -- all from the Danbury area in the early 1900's http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiburnet/surnames.htm This page was just developed at the beginning of August and these additions are very welcome. Barron County -- The History of the town of Barronett was added, complete with photos. This page is very information and photo intensive, so please be patient while it loads! http://www.rootsweb.com/~wibarron/barronetthistory.htm Sawyer County -- We also added surnames to this county's surname page this week, for NELSON, WALTER and WHITE, located in Hayward and Stone Lake areas. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wisawyer/sawyers.htm +++++++++++PLUS+++++++++++++ We had a VERY active archives week! Here is a listing of what has been uploaded: For Sawyer County -- Our very own Debbie Barrett, cc of Pierce County was kind enough to donate the pre-1907 Sawyer Co. Death Index to us! This is a treasure we are very happy to get and thank Debbie profusely for all her work! ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/sawyer/vitalrecords/deaths/pre1907d.txt For Barron County - Vic Gulickson, our biography man, sent us a couple more really good bios of people from the Oak Grove Township in Barron County, including: Owen McGEOUGH, ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/barron/biographies/mcgeoug1.txt Patrick McGEOUGH, ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/barron/biographies/mcgeoug2.txt For Eau Claire County -- I got the bug this week to do some typing, so 26 more bios got added to this county's archives. They include: Gilbert E. Porter - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/porter.txt Nelson C. Chapman - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/chapman.txt Martin Daniels - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/daniels.txt Robert Tolles - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/tolles.txt R. B. Buel - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/buel.txt Dr. W. W. Allen - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/allen6.txt H. J. Hanson - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/hanson.txt S. B. Wilkins - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/wilkins.txt John Barron - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/barronj.txt Hon. Fayette Allen - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/allen7.txt G. W. Wilson - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/wilson.txt W. T. Dennison - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/dennison.txt Thomas Horan - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/horan.txt Charles Lehenthall - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/lehentha.txt Rodman Palmer - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/palmer.txt Rev. Robert Cobban - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/cobban.txt Capt. Daniel W. Heylman - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/heylman.txt Robert Felton - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/felton.txt Henry Shaw - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/shaw.txt Mary B. S. Brown - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/brown2.txt Mary Tabor Meggett - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/meggett.txt Mrs. Mary Ingram - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/ingram.txt Mrs. Ellen C. Vilas - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/vilas.txt Mrs. A. Congdon - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/congdon.txt Mrs. Mary F. Bowler - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/bowler.txt Mrs. George W. Mason - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/eauclaire/biographies/mason.txt I should mention that these biographies came from "The History of Northern Wisconsin, 1881". ++++++ Have a safe and happy holiday weekend, everyone! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Just uploaded to the Ashland Co., WI. website is a History of Glidden, WI., written by the Class of 1935. Permission was obtained from the school and typing was done by Pat Moseler Shanks. It really is a wonderful history and has loads of surnames. If you have Ashland County connections - stop by and check this one out. Thanks Pat!! http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiashlan/index.html Jan Ashland County Coordinator Visit Jansdigs at http://www.jansdigs.com Have you checked out Independant Pathways in History at http://www.ipih.org

The Bayfield County Press of 5 September, 1913, from John Griener, has just been uploaded to the Bayfield Co. Website. Be sure to read about the Big Dinner in honor of the Old Soldiers and see if your old soldier might be there. >From Zoe Lappin we have: Bayfield County Journal Memories Column, featuring the Iron River Memories of 15 January 1942; and Bayfield County Journal Yesteryear Column, featuring the Washburn Times of 1 April 1915. Check out the help wanted from Dupont. $2.15 per day. Also loaded to the Upper Great Lakes Bios: John J. Hayden and the Honorable W.H. Irish. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wibayfie/contents.html Jan, Donna, John and Zoe Bayfield County Visit Jansdigs at http://www.jansdigs.com Have you checked out Independant Pathways in History at http://www.ipih.org

All the specific additions with direct links for the month of August may be found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/newest.htm *6 new Family Page Additions with e-mail links to the researches who contributed the information and photos. Of particular interest is the contrast between the local legend and the researched history of the prominent local PECOR family, and what each brings to enrich the whole picture. *68 new and old obituary postings. *23 more pages of transcriptions from the 1880 Oconto County US Census. *The first half of the 1879 Oconto County Reporter articles on marriages, deaths, births and family events. *The index for the first state household census done after the creation of Oconto County, 1855. Much more. In all, information on more than 14,000 past residents of the county have been added this month and is available on the the site search engine at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ A very special "Thank You" to those among us (police, nurses, pharmacists, dairy farmers, and many more) who will be working this holiday Labor Day weekend so our lives are better and more comfortable. The rest of you....Have FUN!!!! Rita - Oconto County

I have found that as well. The index is supposed to start in 1820 but many listed marriages predate that, and Oconto was not made a county until 1851, yet members of my family were married on that index long before they were born, talk about early arranged marriages!!. I own the microfiche and also crossed checked a number of them. This is not a few mistakes. Out of the the several dozen I checked, only two had the correct year, and Ancestors' site has a lot of ???s in places where I could easily read the numbers and letters.The name spellings are also not very accurate at times when checked with the original fiche as well (which are pretty creative in their own right). It seems to have been thrown together much too hastily and that is not really a help to people. It also causes problems for the county workers and wastes money and time when they are asked to look for the records using the numbers given, and nothing is found. More harm than good to visitors, and does not do Ancestor's any good either. Rita - Oconto County Deana Hipke wrote: > > Just a reminder-the WI Pre-1907 Marriage Index does not include all > > counties. > > A warning about the accuracy of the Ancestry.com index: I looked up some > known relatives today just for the fun of it, and ALL the dates were > incorrect for those married between 1900 and 1906 (5 or 6 from my line). > Instead of 1903, they listed 1803, etc. Highly unlikely there would be > records for Wisconsin that early (statehood came in 1848) and highly > misleading for someone who might not know better! Looks like someone slipped > and mistyped all those 9s as 8s. > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Dunn County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://www.rootsweb.com/~widunn/

Ancestry is aware of the problem, and is working on correcting the dates. Shelley

Debie & Joe wrote: > Ancestry has more problems then just the marriages being wrong. I have > brought it to their attention, but it appears they will do nothing to let > the researcher know of it and in the end, it is going to confuse alot of > people. The problem is with the birth indexes for Sheboygan & St. Croix > Counties. When the state placed them on microfiche, an error was made and > all of Sheboygan's births were listed as St. Croix county and vice versa. > It is known at the state and also at the state library. Evidently Ancestry > didn't know, so I wrote to them, explained the whole thing, told them they > could contact Wisconsin Dept. of Vital records to confirm or check my > website which has all of the births from the county level. I received no > response. I then located a phone number for Ancestry and called them to > explain to a real person. The response I received was and I quote "Well, > that is what genealogy is all about". I didn't expect them to change the > county names on all entries, but I did expect and still do feel a letter > should be posted on their website explaining this to their researchers. I > have already had one researcher come to Sheboygan looking for a surname > that was found under Ancestry's births that should have been looking in St. > Croix. There will be no telling how many people end up confused in the long > run. > > Debie > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Visit the Crawford County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://users.rootsweb.com/~wicrawfo/crawford.htm Hi Debie, I appreciate your trying to straighten the birth index situation out. But not only is there a mixup with the Sheboygan/St. Croix county records -- it's all the "s" counties. Here is what is posted at the ARC's: The statewide index for counties that begin with an S are indexed under the wrong county name: St. Croix is indexed as Sauk Sauk is indexed as Sawyer Sawyer is indexed as Shawano Shawano is indexed as Sheboygan Sheboygan is indexed as St. Croix. So the problem is even bigger! -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net