I am seeking information on the Salvadore Mollica family who lived in Whitefish Bay about 1930s and later. Salvadore married a Johnstone (Helen or Mary) born about 1900. She was the daughter of Richard Johnstone and Josephine Simon of Milwaukee. Richard was born in Canada and Josephine was born in Milwaukee to Anton and Maria Simon. I'd appreciate hearing from anyone who knows of this family. Joyce in Kenosha

Marcie had a question about Granville, Wisconsin. The Town of Granville was a township just west of the Town of Milwaukee. If you can get hold of a plat map for the County of Milwaukee, you will be better able to understand. The Milwaukee County Historical Society would have plat maps. The Town of Granville was annexed by the City of Milwaukee back in the 1960's. The Town of Granville was bordered by what is now West County Line Road (north boundary); North 124th Street (west boundary); North 27th Street (east boundary); West Hampton Avenue (south boundary). If you have a City of Milwaukee map today you'd be able to find it by those streets. Any events that would have occured in the Town of Granville, would be registered at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, and if not there, in the local churches. I think the majority of the churches have had their records microfilmed by the LDS Church. Hope that helps you some. >From someone who lives smack dab in the middle of the Town of Granville. Janice

The old 8th Ward did have a good sized German population. Holy Trinity Catholic Parish in that ward goes back to 1850, from the same period as Old St. Mary's Catholic parish in the old 7th Ward (east of Milwaukee River, between Wisconsin & Division [Juneau]). I've done a little bit of research in Old St. Mary's and it appeared that some of the EARLIEST families of that parish were from Bavaria or other parts of southern Germany, as well as some Swiss. Note that this is ANECDOTAL rather than hard data, and refers to Catholics only. I have not done any research in Grace Lutheran, which was just a couple blocks from Old St. Mary's. As the population increased, the German population pushed north from the 7th Ward into the 1st Ward, which lay north of Division. The family that I was following changed membership from Old St. Mary's to Holy Rosary. The earliest Polish parishes were St. Stanislaus on Mitchell Street, which dates from the 1860s, and St. Hedwig's on Brady Street. These were two separate Polish communities with very little if any contact with one another, presumably because of travel distance. Polish Catholics attended Holy Trinity until St. Stan's was founded. I did not notice any Polish names in Old St. Mary's records. As the Polish population grew north from St. Hedwig's, they founded St. Casimir, and later Czestochowa parishes. St. Stanislaus gave birth to St. Hyacinth, then St. Josaphat, and then rapid expansion west of those parishes to St. Vincent, Ss. Cyril & Methodius and St. Adalbert. Holy Trinity's first daughter parish was St. Anthony on Mitchell Street. Although largely German, there were also Poles in this parish. Early Irish families seem to have belonged to the Cathedral parish and to St. Gall's, which was originally right downtown. The St. Gall's families pushed west to around Marquette University's current campus and Gesu parish (Spencer Tracy's home parish). The original Catholic Cathedral parish was St. Peter's, which my 1865 directory notes as Bohemian. However, based on a cursory look at the St. John's Cathedral records, it appears to have had a large Irish population. Scandinavians seem to have congregated on the near South Side between what's now National Avenue & Greenfield. The Norwegian Lutheran Church was at Scott & Reed (I seem to recall that this church building was later taken over by a German parish), and the Scandinavian Lutheran Church was at 2nd Avenue & Lapham. The Dutch Reformed Church was at 10th Street & Cherry, and the Holland Presbyterian Church was at 18th & Walnut. The Walnut Street Presbyterian Church at 13th Street was also Dutch. Tabernacle Congregational Church on Jefferson between Michigan & Huron, was Welsh. Only one synagogue is listed during the early period - Bene Jeshurum - on 5th Street between Wells & Cedar. That pretty much sums up the ethnic churches through the 1860s. Mary Popovich Busia's Roots, Genealogy

Many thanks, Mary, for your very helpful info below. All this throws valuable light on early Milwaukee settlement patterns. And maybe other listers might have some added input on all this. By process of elimination, I conclude that what you're also saying below, Mary, is that, in the 1850s and 1860s at least, a large proportion of new German Catholic settlers in Milwaukee tended to gravitate to the old 8th Ward. Is this correct? The 8th Ward appears to have been detached about 1856 from the older 5th Ward to the east (Walker's Point). In 1858 at least, the 8th Ward was apparently bounded on the EAST by modern South 6th St. (formerly known as "Monroe St."-- and also "First Avenue"), on the NORTH by the Menomonee River, on the WEST by modern 35th St., and on the SOUTH by modern Lincoln Ave. In 1858, 35th St. and Lincoln Ave. seem to have demarcated, respectively, the west and south boundaries of the City of Milwaukee. I have no idea whether the present 8th Ward boundaries are similar to old 1858 8th Ward boundaries. My guess is that early immigrants from Eastern Europe also tended to settle especially in the old 8th Ward. Is this also correct? And was this Eastern European settlement primarily Polish initially? Many thanks .........John (in Chicago) ____________________________________________________________ << Subj: Re: [WiMilwau] Change in neighborhood Date: 9/30/01 8:05:24 PM Central Daylight Time From: busia@mindspring.com (Mary Popovich) Reply-to: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com Checking my copy of parishes from the 1865 City Directory, I would have to conclude that the North Side German population was largely Protestant. St. Joseph's was the only German Catholic parish west of the Milwaukee River, and Old St. Mary's the only German parish east of it. In the Walker's point area, there was only Holy Trinity. German Lutheran churches that would have served this area near Vliet Street included: First Evangelical (Tamarack & 5th) St. John's (Prairie & 4th) St. Paul's (5th between Prairie & Tamarack) The Evangelical parishes in this area were: Evangelical Trinity (Sherman & 6th) Zion Evangelical (Cedar & 4th). Finally, there was also: German Methodist Church (5th between Prairie & Tamarack) German Reformed (4th & Cherry) Cedar, Tamarack and Prairie are now Kilbourn, Highland and State; Sherman was a block north of Walnut. A total of FIVE German Protestant churches were concentrated in a SIX SQUARE BLOCK area of the old Second Ward! Two more churches were in the 6th Ward. It also would appear that some of these churches moved west and north along with the population. My 1910 City Directory has: St. John's at 8th & Vliet St. Paul's at 7th & Galena Zion Evangelical at 11th & Harmon First German M.E. at Prairie & 21st Incidentally, by 1910 there were 5 German M.E. churches, 2 German Baptist churches and 1 German Presbyterian church in Milwaukee. There was also a group of German 7th Day Adventists and a German Spiritualist Church. Mary Popovich Busia's Roots, Genealogy >> ____________________________________________________________ << Subj: Change in neighborhood Date: 9/30/01 4:10:42 AM Central Daylight Time From: JQMagie To: For some time, I've wondered why the adjoining east-west streets of VLIET plus (just to the north) Cherry, Galena, and Walnut-- where all four intersect with 12th Street-- marked what looks to me to be the most densely populated section of Milwaukee in 1858, as suggested by my copies of sections of Henry F. Walling's detailed 1858 map of Milwaukee. This seems to be so, even though this area was over a mile NW of Milwaukee's downtown center (then and now): at about Water St. and Wisconsin Ave. The SE corner of Ward 9 in 1858 was the intersection of Vliet and 7th streets-- so that most of this densely populated area was within Ward 9-- and to a much lesser extent within older Ward 2 to the south...... I've just confirmed my impression above by checking some US Census population summaries that I forgot I had. While Ward 9 was apparently not created until about 1856, by 1860 it had already become Milwaukee's most populous ward-- with 6594 residents. And by 1870 Ward 9 had become Milwaukee's largest ward by far, with 11537 residents)-- followed by Ward 5 (Walker's Point on Milwaukee's south side), with 8725 people. Can anyone throw any light on why the SE section of Ward 9 became so densely populated in the 1850s and 1860s? And was this primarily a German Catholic and/or German Protestant area? Most of Milwaukee's old breweries appear to have been in this general area-- and maybe these provided ample employment to new settlers. Another explanation might stem from the fact that Vliet Street was an eastern extension of the old Watertown Plank Road, originally (1849?) a toll road, which seems to have been Milwaukee's main early link to Watertown, Madison, and points west...... The Walling map also clearly shows (to the south) the big house that my g-g-grandfather Elisha Eldred was building in 1858-59 on a large piece of land on the north side of modern Wisconsin Ave., between 14th and 15th St. (land that is now part of the Marquette University campus). This Ward 2 area was much closer to downtown Milwaukee than all of Ward 9-- and yet what is striking to me is this area was almost totally undeveloped in 1858. Perhaps this was due to the formerly rugged terrain of Wisconsin Ave. between about 5th and 20th streets. Maybe this area needed a lot of grading before it could be accommodate much housing. Does anyone know something about all this? ........John (in Chicago) >> ____________________________________________________________

Hello: I have an ancestor that died at birth in 1865. Her death certificate reads Granville, Wi. Was Granville a small town outside of Milwaukee and now part of Milwaukee? Was Granville a township? Any information will be appreciated. Thanks Marcie

Someone just sent us 3 e-mails that appeared on this list from people researching the WIERSCHEM surname. My husband is a Wierschem from Milwaukee. We would like to compare and share information. Ken and Jane Wierschem

Thanks to all who responded to my question about 1309 Vliet and what ward it's located in. I wasn't encouraged to find it's located in the 2 most populated wards in the city! I apparently have a lot of census records to go through. I actually found the 1300 block of Vliet in ward 9 in the 1900 census but it was just the even addresses! GRRRR! I guess I'll keep looking for the other side of the street, I know they're there somewhere! Jenny

Hello: I was wondering if the Milwaukee reverse directories are available anywhere online? In particular, I am interested in information on "2731 W. North Avenue, Milwaukee" in 1933/1934. Any assistance/suggestions appreciated. Jacquie

Hi Maxine: Your email about the neighborhood did not deserve the response you received. I think they misinterpreted your email. I am not from Milwaukee but like Milwaukee. I always felt it was a large small town. Some of my distant relatives settled in Milwaukee when they emigrated from Germany. There is no need for your apology and just shrug it off. Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph J & Maxine M. Capezza" <jcapezza@cafes.net> To: <WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] Change in neighborhood > > Dear AMHSUE, > I was surprised how a letter from an unknown person could make me feel so > bad. It gave me that nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach like when > someone is telling you off.. > > I was a child when my parents made the decision to move. I moved back > into Milwaukee when I was 20. When I am together with my family the > conversation always gets around to Milwaukee and how much we all like > it. It's a big friendly city and it really has that reputation in other > states. I'm always proud when people say good things about it. I ,as a > rule, don't use bumper sticker. But I have a MILWAUKEE sign on my car. > Bay View became a part of Milwaukee in the 1800s. I believe it was because > of the city water system. > > My brother and I were born at home. We feel a real connection for that > neighborhood and our old house. It's just very sad to see it looking run > down. As I mentioned, every house is not run down. Many look great. > > I did not intend to "put down" anyone. I don't live in Wisconsin but get > up there any chance I get. I am very sorry that you misunderstood the > intent of my note. Guess it was off subject anyway, but I think writing > about neighborhoods is interesting...historically. > > I do read the papers. Most cities have too many shootings and that also > is a sad thing. > > Pray for peace, > Maxine > > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >

Dear AMHSUE, I was surprised how a letter from an unknown person could make me feel so bad. It gave me that nasty feeling in the pit of my stomach like when someone is telling you off.. I was a child when my parents made the decision to move. I moved back into Milwaukee when I was 20. When I am together with my family the conversation always gets around to Milwaukee and how much we all like it. It's a big friendly city and it really has that reputation in other states. I'm always proud when people say good things about it. I ,as a rule, don't use bumper sticker. But I have a MILWAUKEE sign on my car. Bay View became a part of Milwaukee in the 1800s. I believe it was because of the city water system. My brother and I were born at home. We feel a real connection for that neighborhood and our old house. It's just very sad to see it looking run down. As I mentioned, every house is not run down. Many look great. I did not intend to "put down" anyone. I don't live in Wisconsin but get up there any chance I get. I am very sorry that you misunderstood the intent of my note. Guess it was off subject anyway, but I think writing about neighborhoods is interesting...historically. I do read the papers. Most cities have too many shootings and that also is a sad thing. Pray for peace, Maxine

Is there anyone who can do a look-up for a Joellen Ajdukovich b.1953-54 and may have died about that same time? Irene

AmhSue, I suspect you are quite right about the attitude of those who live in Bay view, for all the ones I've met from the larger, mostly brick houses there are quite convinced they live in a suburb, as well as a surprising number of the ones who live in smaller, frame houses there. However, they vote in city of Milwaukee elections, so as far as government goes, they are indeed part of the city. Without a map in front of me, I'm just guessing, but isn't St. Francis the first suburb to the south, along the lake? And it's right next to Bay View, and decidedly has a suburban attitude. It also has the lovely grounds of the former St. Francis Seminary, with some of Milwaukee county's handsomest trees. The area of Pierce and Locust, or Riverwest in general, is looking up as far as assessed valuation. For perhaps 20 years Riverwest has been a changing and troubled neighborhood. As you point out, many of the residents are renters and quite a few, maybe the largest percentage in the city, of the owner residents are retired and living on pensions. A limited income doesn't help with new paint, especially when so many of the large, old houses are underinsulated and act as heat sinks in the winter. Pay the gas bill or pay a roofer or painter to do some work on a 30 foot ladder? However, last year the assessed valuation climbed almost to the levels of the expensive East Side, with the average duplex running about $80,000. This was a huge increase from the time when my friends bought their frame home there on a double lot for only $6000, back in 1982. Bargains may still be had in Riverwest, and gangs still cruise, but it's no longer merely the overflow for gentrifiers who can't afford Bay View or Sherman Park or the East Side. These days it takes real money, not a few months savings, to buy a house there. The burglary crime rate by the way, is probably less than most suburbs, at least for many of the published figures comparing city districts and selected suburbs. All those teenagers with cars and a drug habit in the suburbs you know, they keep breaking into the neighbors garages and houses. Drives up the statistics something frantic. :) Mostly true, Ashley AMHSUE@aol.com wrote: > First of all, people who live on Lake Drive have a higher income than those > who live in your old neighborhood. Therefore, they can maintain their > properties better than those who live in your old neighborhood. I used to > live on Pierce and Locust for 23 years and yes that neighborhood has changed > to. Many people who live in those areas are renters, some do not care about > property, some do. I'm sorry but your message sounded very insensitive and > predjudiced to me. Most people who live in those neighborhoods do not like it > any better than you do that they are run down, and I am sure they would love > to live on Lake Drive. Bay View is not Milwaukee it is a suburb, like Brown > Deer and Glendale. > > I live in Milwaukee and like it very much, yes things are changing here, and > lady > sometimes Milwaukee is a war zone, read the papers about the shootings, but > guess what, some of us like Milwaukee so much that we are not about to move > to the suburbs, we are staying and trying to make better and safer > neighborhoods here for our children. Please feel free to stay in the suburbs > and put down those who either cannot afford to move there or those who choose > to stay in Milwaukee. > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

First of all, people who live on Lake Drive have a higher income than those who live in your old neighborhood. Therefore, they can maintain their properties better than those who live in your old neighborhood. I used to live on Pierce and Locust for 23 years and yes that neighborhood has changed to. Many people who live in those areas are renters, some do not care about property, some do. I'm sorry but your message sounded very insensitive and predjudiced to me. Most people who live in those neighborhoods do not like it any better than you do that they are run down, and I am sure they would love to live on Lake Drive. Bay View is not Milwaukee it is a suburb, like Brown Deer and Glendale. I live in Milwaukee and like it very much, yes things are changing here, and lady sometimes Milwaukee is a war zone, read the papers about the shootings, but guess what, some of us like Milwaukee so much that we are not about to move to the suburbs, we are staying and trying to make better and safer neighborhoods here for our children. Please feel free to stay in the suburbs and put down those who either cannot afford to move there or those who choose to stay in Milwaukee.

Checking my copy of parishes from the 1865 City Directory, I would have to conclude that the North Side German population was largely Protestant. St. Joseph's was the only German Catholic parish west of the Milwaukee River, and Old St. Mary's the only German parish east of it. In the Walker's point area, there was only Holy Trinity. German Lutheran churches that would have served this area near Vliet Street included: First Evangelical (Tamarack & 5th) St. John's (Prairie & 4th) St. Paul's (5th between Prairie & Tamarack) The Evangelical parishes in this area were: Evangelical Trinity (Sherman & 6th) Zion Evangelical (Cedar & 4th). Finally, there was also: German Methodist Church (5th between Prairie & Tamarack) German Reformed (4th & Cherry) Cedar, Tamarack and Prairie are now Kilbourn, Highland and State; Sherman was a block north of Walnut. At total of FIVE German Protestant churches were concentrated in a SIX SQUARE BLOCK area of the old Second Ward! Two more churches were in the 6th Ward. It also would appear that some of these churches moved west and north along with the population. My 1910 City Directory has: St. John's at 8th & Vliet St. Paul's at 7th & Galena Zion Evangelical at 11th & Harmon First German M.E. at Prairie & 21st Incidentally, by 1910 there were 5 German M.E. churches, 2 German Baptist churches and 1 German Presbyterian church in Milwaukee. There was also a group of German 7th Day Adventists and a German Spiritualist Church. Mary Popovich Busia's Roots, Genealogy

It's always helpful to use first names when posting surname searches. On page 1197 of "The History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin" written in 1881, it states: "JOHN CHRISTOPHEL. grocer, No. 440 National avenue." Page 979 Herman SCHERFF was listed as a member of the Sons of Herman. Page 1247 states, "VALENTINE ZIMMERMAN, is a son of Frederick Zimmerman who was born in 1811 and died in Milwaukee, December 5, 1873, his wife still surviving him. Valentine Zimmerman was married September 14, 1870 to Miss Mary H. Flynn, of Milwaukee. They have three sons living. James Zimmerman was born April 22, 1849 in Milwaukee. He was married October 26, 1880, to Miss Emily L. Showalter of this city. The West Branch of Zimmerman Bros.' store was established in October, 1878, at the corner of Twelfth and Cherry streets. B.H. Bockhorst, who has charge, was born in Germany, June 22 1841; has followed the business of a cutter of clothing since 1860. Came of America in May 1864 and to Milwaukee in 1866. Has been in business for himself for seven years, and with the present firm since 1878." There are several other Zimmerman listings. If you want them. Please contact me. At 12:03 AM 9/29/2001 -0700, you wrote: >Researching GOLDKE, WALLSMITH, LIEBER, CHRISTOPHEL, SCHERF, SEYMER, >ZIMMERMANN, all from the Milwaukee area (including Greenfield, Oak Creek, >Franklin) from 1842 to present. > >Cristy >________________________________________________________________ >GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! >Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! >Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: >http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > >============================== >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp Pray for Peace, Maxine Capezza

For some time, I've wondered why the adjoining east-west streets of VLIET plus (just to the north) Cherry, Galena, and Walnut-- where all four intersect with 12th Street-- marked what looks to me to be the most densely populated section of Milwaukee in 1858, as suggested by my copies of sections of Henry F. Walling's detailed 1858 map of Milwaukee. This seems to be so, even though this area was over a mile NW of Milwaukee's downtown center (then and now): at about Water St. and Wisconsin Ave. The SE corner of Ward 9 in 1858 was the intersection of Vliet and 7th streets-- so that most of this densely populated area was within Ward 9-- and to a much lesser extent within older Ward 2 to the south. One of the main Ward 9 focal points must have been St. Joseph's Catholic Church, which was located in 1858 on the north side of Cherry between 11th and 12th. I've just confirmed my impression above by checking some US Census population summaries that I forgot I had. While Ward 9 was apparently not created until about 1856, by 1860 it had already become Milwaukee's most populous ward-- with 6594 residents. And by 1870 Ward 9 had become Milwaukee's largest ward by far, with 11537 residents)-- followed by Ward 5 (Walker's Point on Milwaukee's south side), with 8725 people. Can anyone throw any light on why the SE section of Ward 9 became so densely populated in the 1850s and 1860s? And was this primarily a German Catholic and/or German Protestant area? Most of Milwaukee's old breweries appear to have been in this general area-- and maybe these provided ample employment to new settlers. Another explanation might stem from the fact that Vliet Street was an eastern extension of the old Watertown Plank Road, originally (1849?) a toll road, which seems to have been Milwaukee's main early link to Watertown, Madison, and points west. My copies of this 1858 map show a toll booth just west of 35th St., then Milwaukee's western city limits. No doubt sustained speeds of 80 miles per hour would have been difficult in horse-drawn vehicles on these ancient "plank roads" that were apparently formed of parallel logs. These toll roads were briefly popular in the pre-railroad era and were a big improvement over old muddy Indian trails. The Walling map also clearly shows (to the south) the big house that my g-g-grandfather Elisha Eldred was building in 1858-59 on a large piece of land on the north side of modern Wisconsin Ave., between 14th and 15th St. (land that is now part of the Marquette University campus). This Ward 2 area was much closer to downtown Milwaukee than all of Ward 9-- and yet what is striking to me is this area was almost totally undeveloped in 1858. Perhaps this was due to the formerly rugged terrain of Wisconsin Ave. between about 5th and 20th streets. Maybe this area needed a lot of grading before it could be accommodate much housing. Does anyone know something about all this? ........John (in Chicago) ______________________________________________________ << Subj: [WiMilwau] Change in neighborhood - I-43 & Galena Date: 9/28/01 9:56:06 PM CST From: busia@mindspring.com (Mary Popovich) Reply-to To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com I started attending Marquette University in 1969 and that fall applied for a job at a neighborhood library on Walnut Street. I've always been relatively fearless, not to mention at least a little naive, and walked from my dorm at 11th & Wisconsin to the library (in late afternoon) and back (in early evening). I seem to recall both empty lots and new "low-income housing," mostly side-by-side duplexes and 4-plexes. This area was a center of urban renewal, possibly because of some minor rioting, but also because the area was already run-down...... >> ______________________________________________________

Your ggreat grandparents lived on 13th and Vliet. Vliet is the correct name, it is not abbreviated. j. On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 05:11:03 -0500 Jenny <jenny@bethurem.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I came across the name of my ggreat-grandparents in the > 1890 Milwaukee city > directory (Ancestry's online version) and I was hoping > someone could help > me with the information it gives. Under a column labeled > "Location 2" it > lists "1309 Vliet." I assume this is an address but the > name of the street > looks like it's abbreviated, does this ring a bell with > anyone? The > complete listing given is > > John Reschlein, occupation - molder, Location 2 - 1309 > Vliet., City - > Milwaukee, State - WI, year 1890 > > If this is an address, does anyone know what Ward and > E.D. this location > would have been in in 1900? > > Thanks > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy > access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >

Vliet is a legitimate street name for Milwaukee, listed in the city directory as early as 1865, probably before then as well. According to an 1860s era city directory, Vliet Street the the dividing line between the 2nd and 9th wards. I do not know if the boundaries changed between then and the 1890s or later. Mary Popovich Busia's Roots, Genealogy

Hi folks, I'm trying to help a man seeking information on an ancestor that was with the Racine & Kenosha Life Saving Stations in the 1890. He sent 3 really nice photos of three life stations whose location is unknown. I have since managed to identify one as the (second) Racine station, but the others are not the Kenosha station nor are they the first Racine station. I have talked to the Kenosha Coast Guard, and the Kenosha and Racine historical societies. The thought is they may be Milwaukee stations. Can anybody identify the bottom two life saving stations in the photos at http://www.clsurf.com/fay/LifeStationFrame1Source1.htm Please feel free to repost them to other people or other lists as appropriate. Thanks, Bob Fay

In a message dated 9/29/01 12:38:21 AM, cculp2@juno.com writes: << Researching GOLDKE, WALLSMITH, LIEBER, CHRISTOPHEL, SCHERF, SEYMER, ZIMMERMANN, all from the Milwaukee area (including Greenfield, Oak Creek, Franklin) from 1842 to present. Cristy >> ++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi Cristy, I'm looking for a Kathryn Zimmermann who married Andrew Ifkovitz in Milwaukee County in 1916. They had two children, Katy and Regina. Kathryn eventually divorced Andrew. Any of these names tie in with your Zimmermann? Sherry