Thanks! What a great bunch of county coordinators Wisconsin has-always so willing to help and share ideas. I love it! Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Good morning everyone, As you know the polls have opened for voting in the USGenWeb Project elections. There are some technical issues surrounding this process, that are currently being worked on. The voting period is a month in duration, July 1, 2000, to July 31, 2000. I therefore encourage all of you to wait to vote until these issues are worked out. I will post a note to this list when that is accomplished. Thanks everyone, Tina

Hello out there all you great county coordinators! I am again asking for some assistance. I want to post old news articles from the Waupaca County area to the website and have tried setting the pages up for this, but I am just not getting it the way I like or so it's not boring. Do any of you have old articles posted on your sites that I can maybe get ideas from? I tried checked a few counties and didn't find any or thought it would be easier to ask then search through the whole state county by county. The articles I am talking about are the weekly or monthly ones with local doings such as-Will Finny took in the sights at Oshkosh Wednesday. S.H. Brady and Dr. Goodrick were in New London Wednesday., etc. etc. Thanks everyone! Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Just a reminder! A Wisconsin Chat is scheduled for Sundays, 9:00 p.m. EST to 10:00 p.m. EST at http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm Anyone interested in genealogy in the state of Wisconsin please stop by. Bring your surnames, questions, etc. and let's help each other find those lost Wisconsin ancestors. See you tomorrow night in the chat room. Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Hi Fellow Researchers, I have just read and signed this online petition: "National Cemetery Protection Act" hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition service, at: http://www.petitiononline.com/sg0001/petition.html I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider signing yourself. Several years ago I was witnessed two headstones that had been removed from their base by vandals. This was at a local cemetery, what I witnessed really got to me as the caretaker of the cemetery proceeded to back his truck up and toss both stones into the back of the truck, breaking one of them. When I got a bit upset and asked why in the world he did that, why didn't he simply find the grave and place them back, I was told that the graves were old, the families don't care anymore and he simply didn't have the time. This kind of stuff we need to put a stop too. Major legislation is necessary NOW!!! If you have a minute, please take a look at the petition, Thanks for your time and have a wonderful holiday weekend, Debie

Happy and Safe Holiday to all, This is the time of year that I gather information for winter posting to the county site, but with the wonderful volunteer help it has also been a very busy month for posting. We have a good number of 1880 census pages transcribed by volunteers Kirk & Cheryl Morschauser and Sue Lattin, all old friends of the site. These are now at the proof-reader for final preparation and will be posted early in July. You will find the newest postings at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/newest.htm These include: *111 new and old county obituaries * New surname postings along with direct e-mail links to the contributing family researchers * Town of How Scrap Book was completely posted - including abbreviated 1880 and 1900 US Census remuneration's for that township *1876, 1877 and part of 1878 newspaper reports on county marriages, deaths, and family events *The Births Page has been started (very exciting!) with the names and dates of old county births up to 1907 from the newspaper; from the Wisconsin Births Pre-1907 Index for Oconto County (an ongoing project as the microfiche is transcribed); and the completed list of births that were not recorded at the time of the event, but for numerous reasons applications were sent to the county for certification years later (mostly for Social Security benefits and life insurance policy claims in the 1930's and 1940's). These are also available through the site search engine on the Oconto County Home Page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/ *In 1876, Richard Hall began a series of articles about county history. Here are the entries he finished and published in the Oconto County Reporter on the 100th anniversary year of our nation. *The "Official Oconto County Centennial Souvenir Program of 1948" is being posted! In celebration of 100 years of Wisconsin statehood, it contains essays and photographs on a wide range of Oconto County history, as well as people and numerous advertisements for the family owned county businesses of that time.The first part has been posted and the rest will come soon. Please be patient as these are scanned images of the original book and take time to load. Scanned and Contributed by Kathy Barlament. Enjoy! And please drive carefully, we need you in this world. My Best To You, Rita - Oconto County WIGenWeb Coordinator

Forwarded as requested. These Voter Ids, will be used in the upcoming USGenWeb Project election. More information will be forwarded as appropriate. Tina ________ From: "Roger Swafford" <sagitta56@earthlink.net Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:02:08 -0400 Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] EC- Voter ID's To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com *Fwd as appropriate* Greetings, Voter ID's are being sent via email from the EC members. The ID is required on the ballot form along with the email address to which it was sent in order for votes to be tabulated correctly. For members who have counties in more than one region the ID is good for all those races in which the member is qualified to vote. The server which is hosting the ballots does not have a lot of bandwidth so please be patient. The URL will be announced when the polls open.

I just got a lead on one of my "brick wall" lines and I am hoping someone out there can help me find further information. Searching for Norman GERARD/GIRARD's death date/certificate. He was living in Grand Rapids, Wood County, WI in 1900 at the age of 70. He was widowed and living as a boarder at hotel. Prior to living in Wood County, he was living in Omro Township, Winnebago County, WI. Or can anyone tell me how Norman was related to a Samuel Girard of Waupaca County, WI? Any help, no matter how small, would really be appreciated. Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

I invite you all to the 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

Hi all, I may just have to start a Tina's - Mailbag topic of the week. This one is exciting, and not only a compliment to each and every one of your county sites, but an acknowledgment of the hard work that we all as the WIGenWeb Project have accomplished. I am very pleased to ask, for a volunteer to call this individual and share with them, what each of us already know. WIGenWeb Project Moos! {excuse the joke, I get excited}! Congratulations to each and every one of you. The request in itself is indicative of a job well done. Now any volunteers quick <g> Tina ******* Subj: Help for an article Date: 6/25/00 9:38:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: SalemCat3 To: WIGenWebProject Hello! My name is Katy J. Vopal, and I'm a Features Reporter for the Waukesha Freeman. I was wondering if you could help me out. I'd like to do an article on Genealogy for our Friday family page, sort of the how-to, basics, and where someone is Wisconsin can look. I was hoping that since your organization seems to be the largest one centering on Wisconsin, I would love to have the opportunity to talk to someone from your office. Please e-mail me back or give me a call at my office, 262-542-2501 ext. 2662. If you can get in touch with me by Wednesday, that would be great. I would really appreciate any help you can give me. I look forward to hearing from you. Thanks again, Katy J. Vopal

I've received a request for info on: The Tuberculosis Sanitorium State Public School at Sparta, WI I would copy it here but the writer used a different script that won't go through the list but reject. The writer says that she assumes the latter to be some sort of orphanage. Please let me know of any info you may have regarding these. Thanks, Tim

Wow, it's been a busy week. You can tell that summer has finally hit the northwoods of Wisconsin, as alot of people are getting out and gleaning new information to be added to the webpages! Here are the new additions for this week that have been donated: Barron County Archives update Vic Gulickson has added a couple more biographies to his growing list in the Archives. They are: KURSCHNER, Christopher, Barron, Barron Co., WI ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/barron/biographies/kurschnr.txt BRUESEWITZ, August C., Cumberland, Barron Co., WI ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/barron/biographies/bruswitz.txt For Burnett County, Vicki Koenen has donated the readings of the Danbury Cemetery located in Danbury, Burnett Co., WI The URLs for the html version are found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiburnet/danbury1.htm and http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiburnet/danbury2.htm Or if you'd prefer to read them in text version, they can be found at ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/burnett/cemeteries/danbury.txt Vicki Koenen < mailto:VKoenen@centurytel.net > would also like to donate this cemetery transcription to the Tombstone Transcription Project, Tina! :~) And finally, some new additions to the Sawyer Co. Archives. These are transcriptions from microfilm of the history, along with the list of pastors who served, baptisms, marriages and funerals from the First Congregational Church of Hayward, Sawyer Co., WI between the years of 1885 and 1924. The addresses for these files are: History/Pastor list - ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/sawyer/churchrecords/1conintr.txt Baptisms - ftp:/ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/sawyer/churchrecords/1conbapt.txt Marriages - ftp:/ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/sawyer/churchrecords/1conmarr.txt Funerals - ftp:/ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/sawyer/churchrecords/1confune.txt Kelly, I would like to donate these to your NEW project - the USGenWeb Archives Church Records Project. That's it for this week. I'll see what I can "dig up" next week. -- Nance mailto:nsampson@spacestar.net

Wanted to pass this along for those of you researching in Wisconsin. Note the Wisconsin chat room on Sunday nights- the chat times are in EST. You can find the forum and chat addresses at the bottom of the email. Hope to see you there. Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm >From: "Jean Brandau" <huntsville2@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: "Jean Brandau" <huntsville2@earthlink.net> >To: "Jean Brandau" <huntsville2@earthlink.net> >Subject: New WEEKEND schedule........ >Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:09:04 -0500 > >Hi, Chatters! > >It's summertime, but we're still coming inside and cooling off with our >computers every day. Don't miss the new schedule for the weekend. This >was >revised to take some of the pressure off volunteers and hosts. Do "pop" in >to the chat room throughout the day and see who you'll find in >there.........we've had amazing luck with people bumping into each other in >the "wrong" chats--I think the "open-door" and "open-house" approach to the >chat room will work as well. > >These "pop-luck" chats won't be moderated--so be sure and SPEAK UP when you >get there--any state and any SURNAME is fair game. > >Saturday's Schedule: http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm >"Pop-luck"Genealogy all day (pop in and try your luck!)........ >7 pm Eastern time--NORTHERN STATES genalogy...... >8 pm Eastern time--SOUTHERN STATES genealogy....... >9-11 pm Eastern time--CIVIL WAR genealogy....... > >Sunday's Schedule: http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm >"Pop-luck" Genealogy all day (bring your family tree; try your luck)....... >7 pm Eastern time--SURNAMES starting with A-J......... >8 pm Eastern tiime--SURNAMES starting with K-Z...... >9 pm Eastern time--WISCONSIN genealogy chat...... >11 pm Eastern time--GREAT BRITAIN genealogy..... > >If you would like to host a chat for your favorite STATE or SURNAME or >TOPIC >(Native American, Melungeon, etc.) on the weekend and see a time slot not >taken, write to me and we'll add you to the schedule. > >FORUM CORNER: Make sure we have ALL your SURNAMES registered in the >forum--many are making connections: over 1200 people on this list; if >everyone lists their SURNAMES, we should have thousands of matches. It's >free--and no limit on the number of SURNAMES you post. Read the new posts >every day to see if your long lost cousin finally posted that SURNAME >you're >looking for! >http://about.delphi.com/ab-huntsville > >If you need help with instruction for the chat room or the forum, just let >me know. > >Jean Brandau >About guide to Huntsville AL >http://huntsville.about.com >email: huntsville.guide@about.com >forum: http://about.delphi.com/ab-huntsville >chat: http://huntsville.about.com/mpchat.htm > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

The following plat maps have been added to the Waupaca County Website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/waupplatmap1889.htm Waupaca County, Wisconsin townships: Bear Creek, Caledonia, Dayton, Dupont, Farmington, Fremont, Helvetia, Iola, Larrabee, Lebanon, Lind, Little Wolf, Matteson, Mukwa, Royalton, St. Lawrence, Scandinavia, Union, Waupaca and Weyauwega. Waupaca County, Wisconsin city/towns: Buckbee, Cedar Rapids, Clintonville, Crystal River, Embarrass, Evanswood, Fremont, Granite City, Little Wolf, Manawa, Marion, New London, Northport, Ogdensburg, Ostrander, Parfreyville, Point Comfort, Royalton, Rural, Scandinavia, Union, Waupaca and Weyauwega. These were obtained from "Plat Book of Waupaca County Wisconsin" by C. M. Foote & W. S. Brown published 1889 Paula WaupacaCC http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwaupac/index.htm ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

I happen to be in Green Bay, although it's not my county. The info I sent him is: Nelson, There is a county historical Society: Brown County Historical Society 1008 S. monroe St. Green Bay, WI 54301 (920) 437-1840 For genealogy there is also Bay Area Genealogical Society P.O. Box 283 Green Bay, Wi 54305-0283 Anne Kasuboski Green Lake County Coordinator At 01:28 AM 6/22/2000 -0400, you wrote: >Would the appropriate person answer this man? > >Thanks, > >Tim > >----------- >From: "Nelson" <nelson@atlascomm.net> >To: <tstowell@chattanooga.net> >Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:42:49 -0500 > >Ladies/Gentlemen > >Can you give me an e-mail address of the Green Bay WI historical >society ? > >Thank you. > >Nelson > > >==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >Visit the Crawford County WIGenWeb Project Pages >http://users.rootsweb.com/~wicrawfo/crawford.htm > >

"BAD NEWS: The more popular RootsWeb becomes, the more costly it is to simply stay alive and online. Expenses continue to exceed revenue. We ran up a truly scary loss last year. Without outside help, it's not clear how long we'd be able to go on like this." Above is a quote from the article on the "merger" (ie, buyout) of Rootsweb found at: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/merge.html To me it seems like Ancestry.com is being made the hero by saving Rootsweb from disastrous losses. Because they understand the importance of the community that Rootsweb developed. Uh-hu, this coming from a web site that charges people to look at census indexes and other things that are here for FREE. Wonder how long it'll take before a tiny itty bitty change here and there begins. So do I have to take my "sponsered by Rootsweb" .jpg down now? ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Would the appropriate person answer this man? Thanks, Tim ----------- From: "Nelson" <nelson@atlascomm.net> To: <tstowell@chattanooga.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:42:49 -0500 Ladies/Gentlemen Can you give me an e-mail address of the Green Bay WI historical society ? Thank you. Nelson

Sounds like an appropriate and timely topic to me. Tim At 11:48 AM 6/21/00 EDT, MrsGrinnin@aol.com wrote: >Hi: > >It might be too early to be asking this, but I can't help but wonder what the >latest news from Rootsweb regarding its merger with Ancestry.com is going to >mean to free genealogy on the Internet. I just can't see a pay-for service, >looking to their bottom line not eventually flexing their muscles looking for >ways to make a profit from this. > >Tina, Tim, Holly, do you have any input on what is going on? Might this not >be a good topic for tonight's IRC chat? > >Debbie Barrett >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wipierce/ >http://www.rootsweb.com/~nywashin/ > > >==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== >Visit the Door County WIGenWeb Project Pages >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb/door/ > >

Please join me in welcoming Marie Mickalunas, the new Rusk County Coordinator. Visit her pages at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wirusk/ Welcome Marie! Tina

On this paid researcher note, this is my thoughts. Not all paid researchers are evil and if they are recommended, I will link them, but only with a KNOWN reference... Someone who I have dealt with and whose word is reliable. When I first started out, NO ONE would help me in my county. They shunned me at the Genealogical Society and low and behold, one day, a lady befriended me... She was a professional researcher... After a few years of swapping emails, we struck up a deal. I provide a link to her pages, and she in return would do some of my query work for free. You know the standard lookup, I have a SMITH JONES ANDERSON who may have lived married died in your county or state, can you help??? (grin) It has turned out nicely. About 1 out of 15 become a client for her, and most of them post their information to my site. She is low pressure, that is, she answers their query for free, then let's them know she has a service for a modest price if they need further assistance. In addition, she has provided so many FREE things for my site. Also, it is nice to be able to recommend a professional, someone who, will not RIP them off, or not give them a fair price, or not deliver what is promised... Well, we all been there, done that. On another note, did everyone get the note that Ancestory.com bought out Rootsweb??? And all donors at a certain level will get a free year (paid services included) for our past sponsorships??? I just signed up and got my free subscriptions, so if you don't hear from me, I am busy getting my "monies" worth (yuck yuck yuck)... I would like to have a discussion or any comments on what you think the future of rootsweb will be? All my sites are on Rootsweb. R/S MAK --- WIGEN-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/