Dianne, There are several church records for La Crosse available at the LDS Family History Center films. You should check them out for your church research on your family. I've found a lot of church information for my family by doing so - including baptisms and marriages. > > From: "Dianne Erickson" <[email protected]> > Date: 2004/12/08 Wed PM 04:54:05 EST > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WILACROS] Re: WILACROS-D Digest V04 #34 > > I think I own a shelf in the library; I have ordered so many obituaries. > > I need Anton's death certificate, which means I need to find when and where > he died. Born in 1805, he was still alive in 1880. I found Anton's > daughter, Theresa, buried under Theresa Roellig Schuman in the Oak Grove > Cemetery. My Roellig/Roellichs came from Guntersdorf, Austria. > > There is a Stephen Roellig in the Oak Grove Cemetery. He was born in about > 1813. He could be Anton's brother, but I need to see whether Anton and > Stephen have the same parents, which means I need to order two death > certificates and hope really hard that the informant knew the names of the > parents. > > I also need to establish whether the Roellichs were Catholic or Lutheran and > which ones converted because Anton's children do not appear to share the > same religion. Either Clara converted and joined the Lutheran Church or > else upon marrying the Kreibich sisters, Anton II and Wenzel converted to > Catholicism or else permitted the children to be raised Catholic. The > burials of the remaining siblings, Theresa and Franz, in nonCatholic > Cemeteries, in addition to the father Anton's move to Alma, where some > suggest he would have had to row a boat over the Mississippi or ride his > horse a long ways to get to a Catholic Church, might suggest that the > converts were Anton and Wenzel. But who knows? > > Other Roelligs in La Crosse can be found in various records of Lutheran > Churches. > > My work is cut out for me. It's just a matter of getting time to do it. > > Dianne > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 11:34 PM > Subject: [WILACROS] Re: WILACROS-D Digest V04 #34 > > > > > > In a message dated 12/4/04 7:01:05 PM, [email protected] > > writes: > > > > << [email protected] >> > > > > Diane-- have you tried this site--http://lacrosselibrary.org/genealogy/ > > I fed in both Roellich and Roellig and got 2 pages of the first spelling > > and > > 3 pages of the second spelling. One lists a residence of Bad Kissingen, > > Germany. The library will send you these obituaries for a small fee of > > 5.00 for I > > believe 5 obituaries. I have found these to be very helpful even when very > > brief. There are several from the early 1900's and at least one from > > 1898. Ruth > > > > > > ============================== > > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >