Hello, Anyone researching the WETHERBEE family in and around Milwaukee? Pat Hamilton hamilton@wi.net

Greetings, Anybody researching the HAMILTON family in and around Milwaukee? Pat Hamilton hamilton@wi.net

Don't know what happened, it just went, hope it got through. If not I sent burial dates again. GARDINER CAMPBELL SEPTEMBER 11, 1892 DONALD H. APRIL 20, 1894 GEORGE G. JUNE 22, 1898 GEORGE G. DEC. 30, 1902 KENNETH R. SAME, DEC. 30, 1902 CHILD-C. F. MILLARD FEB. 11, 1908 CHILD-C.F. MILLARD MARCH 4, 1909 MINNIE AGNES MILLARD JULY 9, 1910 HATTIE M. SYVERTSON MAY 28, 1907 ISABELLA JAN. 28, 1920 DELIA I. DEC. 28, 1927 SON OF GARDINER MILLARD FEB. 27, 1931 HENRY E. DEC. 15, 1932 HELEN I. MARCH 19, 1946 JULIA I NOV. 1, 1958 PAUL BERGEN & EDITH BERGEN JULY 3, 1989 Remember, these dates are the day of burial, not the day of death. If you want the lifetime dates please e-mail me at gartzr@aol.com so we don't fill up this message board with many messages. Also, do you want any of the items that are mentioned in the volumes of history? Bob of Brookfield

I understand that Wauwautosa in bowing out of the Milwaukee COUNTY library system so my brother living in Wauwautosa will no longer be able to use the Main library for Genealogical research Will the Milwaukee County library system allow NON residents to continue research OR even sell for a relatively (HA HA) small fee the right for Wauwautosa residents continue to use it??? I hope all Wauwautosa residents are up in arms at the tightfisted TOSA council for bowing out of the system THANKS for your time Dave Boeshaar Simi Valley California

Good afternoon Shar, Sorry, but I am unable to help you. I am the volunteer genealogist/family historian researcher at historic Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. I have read 19 volumes of old Milwaukee City & County histories and donate one day a week to the cemetery to help people find their roots. I was unable to find your names at Forest Home. Next week I will go through my surname notes and let you know if I find anything, if not you won't hear from me so I don't take up space here. At the cemetery we hae a Sarah B. Dumas who owns but is not buried yet. Regading LaMarr we only have the following buried: John L. We also have a Jessie is not listed as being deceased as of yet. John's life time dates were Dec. 11, 1910 to July 1, 1969. Bob of Brookfield

Hi Morey, I am unable to help you with descendants of the above but was wondering if you are aware that there are many references in Milwaukee City & County histories to a Gardner Campbell (Gregory's, Western Historical Pulishing and Gardiner in Bruce's) history. I also found that a Gadiner is buried at historic Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee. This one's life time dates are Feb. 2, 1835 to September 9, 1892 Buried in the same plot that Isabella Campbell purchased on September 30, 1892, are: DONALD H., GEORGE G., ANOTHER GEORGE G., KENNETH R., ISABELLA, DELIA I., HENRY E., HELEN I., JULIA I. (all CAMPBELL'S) plus the following: Child of C. F. Millard, another child of the same, Minnie Agnes Millard, Hattie M. Syvertson, Son of Gardiner Millard, Paul Bergen and Edith Bergen buried after creamation with cremated remains being in one urn and buried in 1989 There is a tombstone on the plot amd most have footstones markers. Those that don't are Helen I Campbell, Delia I. Campbell, Henry E. Campbell, son of Gardiner Millard, 2nd child of C. F. Millard, The Lot Representative became after the death of Isabella, Helen I. Campbell. Then it became in 1953 William C. Millard and the last correspondence the cemetery has had from the family was in 1974 when a Letter was sent to granddaughter, Edith Bergen

Can anyone help find out how to locate information about land that my grandfather owned about 1929-1935? All I know is that it was west of the THEN St. Mathias Catholic Church which is now on 93rd and Beloit Road. I was told that when standing on the land, one could see the St. Mathias Cemetery. I would like to know exactly when my grandfather bought the land (I think it was 2 lots), and when he sold it. I would need a legal description, I think. Were there plat maps of that area in about 1934?? Thanks for any help. Mary from northern Wisconsin

Hello Listers I have just found out today that I have two more names to add to my LIEBER family of Greenfield, Franklin, Hales Corner and Oak Creek. Is anyone on this list researching the following families of; Louise SCHERF/SCHARF, birth/death dates unknown. In 1844 she was living in Franklin, Milwaukee County and married to a Henry Lieber, with the following children; William, Charles, Elizabeth, Sophia, Henry JR. and Louisa. Rosaline GOLDKE, birth/death dates unknown but she was born in Germany. Daughter of Martin GOLDKE and Caroline GOLDKE. Rosaline was married to a Heinrich (Henry) Lieber in Greenfield, Milwaukee County, on June 12, 1883. 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/tagj.

I am looking for anyone researching the Jurczyk family from Milwaukee in the 1900 census on 12th Ave. John and Rose had about 8 children. Looking for information and where they are buried Lenora from Wisconsin

Hi Jane, I have the 1880 CD collection from LDS. Can I help with a lookup for you? ~Michelle

Jane, I found comse city ward maps in my files the other day! One is for 1874 and I believe it was used for the 1880 census. If Hadley is in an area bordered by North 7th, WEst North AVenue and the Milwaukee River...it is the 13th Ward. I know Hadley is North of North Avenue. I don't know if it crosses the river. If it is East of the river, it would be Ward One. If it is West of 7th street, it is the 10th ward. I realize the North 7th street may have been something else back in 1880. This might give you some direction. Maxine At 11:40 AM 8/2/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Still looking for an enumeration district for 1004 Hadley St in the 1880 >Census. >Is there a map for the census districts anywhere? >Thanks >Jane Richards Barker > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! Maxine Capezza

Still looking for an enumeration district for 1004 Hadley St in the 1880 Census. Is there a map for the census districts anywhere? Thanks Jane Richards Barker

Atttached is a duplicate of a message I sent yesterday primarily to Marill <marillt@bak.rr.com>. Subsequently, Marill reports that she DID succeed in accessing Ancestry.com's Wisconsin census info via: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3581.htm But Marill also reminded me of something that I probably hadn't made clear enough on July 30. That is, this Ancestry info is strictly an INDEX to old Wisconsin census info-- NOT detailed copies of each census. Although this Index lists only heads of households, you can nevertheless gather an immense amount of useful info and clues from this Index. Also, you can save a lot of time when studying detailed versions of these censuses at US National Archives regional libraries, etc., if you first arrive there with piles of printouts from this Ancestry.com Census Index. And Ancestry's inclusion of several early Wisconsin territorial and state censuses is especially valuable-- and maybe difficult to find elsewhere. ..........John (in red-hot Chicago) ========================================================== ________________________________________________________ > In a message dated 7/30/01, Marill writes: > > Subj: Re: [WiMilwau] 1850 census lookup: NOT rocket science > Date: 7/30/01 10:47:08 AM Central Daylight Time > From: marillt@bak.rr.com (Marill Trujillo) > Reply-to: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com > To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com > > I have a membership to ancestry.com and I can't see where the 1850 census is > available online yet. Am I missing something obvious to others? When I go > to the site it indicates the 1850 census is "coming soon". I would love to > take a look at it my self if someone can help me figure out where to look...... ________________________________________________________ JQMs suggestion---> after first copying and pasting this Wisconsin database list URL in your browser: http://www.ancestry.com/learn/reference/state/db/wi.htm -- then click on "Wisconsin Census, 1820-90" Or you can go directly to this WI Census database via: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3581.htm If you're currently an Ancestry.com subscriber, then just enter a surname or full name in the search box, and presumably the whole database will be opened up to you. Incidentally, some time ago, I discovered that, after my "two week" free trial ended, Ancestry didn't actually stop providing me with freebies for many months. Sadly, I WAS finally tossed off their "subscriber" list-- but NOT off their SPAM list! Note that Ancestry's title "Wisconsin Census, 1820-90" is something of a misnomer. The Wisconsin coverage for the censuses of 1836, 1837, 1840, 1842, 1850, 1855, and 1860 is VERY helpful. Unfortunately, this WI database includes very little subsequent census info. =========================== http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/3581.htm Wisconsin Census, 1820-90 Description: This collection contains the following indexes: 1820 Federal Census Index; 1821-29 Early Census Index; 1830 Federal Census Index; 1836 State Census Index; 1837 State Census Index; 1838 State Census Index; 1840 Federal Census Index; 1840 Pensioners List; 1842 State Census Index; 1846 State Census Index; 1850 Federal Census Index; 1855 State Census Index; 1860 Federal Census Index; 1890 Veterans Schedule...... Source Information: Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp. Wisconsin Census, 1820-90. [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 1999-. Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes. ============================================================

Hi, I obtain information such as city directory information all the time through my local library using the inter library loan system. Even reference items that are not loaned can be obtained if you request photocopying of certain surnames. Read an email I wrote, pasted below on using ILL, obtaining obituaries and things to do when genealogy is S.L.O.W and you get discouraged. Good Luck. Barb USE INTER LIBRARY LOAN to obtain historical/biographical books/city directories when possible. Find a resource by looking through historical society libraries on-line, public libraries on-line, and from lurking on lists. I've done this hundreds of times and it is cheap and easy.Yes, Milwaukee is more expensive than other area for inter library loans of microfilm, etc. but it is cheaper than hiring a researcher, especially if you want to make discoveries yourself. Find a resource that exists, either from on-line library catalogs, historical society holding, or resources that you find out about from the lists you subscribe to. Then go to your local library and request the resource through their inter library loan department. Their inter library loan department will be able to search for a source of the item if you don't know what institution actually has it, and it will be loaned to you through your library, usually for a short time, in-library use only. Be sure to ask that microfilmed/fishe resources, such as newspaper, census records and some historical books, be sent to a library local to you that has a microfilm reader/copier that you can use. There will probably be a small fee. If a resource you need is reference item only, such as city directories usually are, you can request for the lending library to photocopy pertinent information for you for your particular surname or location. I always include that kind of information on my request form, just in case, as I want to make sure the entire ILL procedure is as fast as possible. If you live in a small town with a library that tells you it doesn't "do" inter library loan or doesn't want to do it (probably because they are unfamiliar with the procedure), try to speak to someone else in the library system who is higher up OR go to the next biggest library (like a regional library) if you can, and make your request there. ILL is a normal, widely used mechanism for obtaining items from long distance. Library systems all over the US participate but costs and availability of personnel to actual perform ILL requests do vary. Getting OBITS: Personally, I really enjoy the excitement of obtaining obituaries myself WHEN POSSIBLE. Try all of these options - they all have worked for me in the past. 1. The obituary daily times indexes CURRENT obits. Go to their website and do a search: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Obituaries/ Most major newspapers have people listing the obits at this site. It will tell you the name of the newspaper if you follow the link to find out. Then go to step 2 2. If it is a current obit, find a newspaper from the area and see if they have their current obits on-line. Many do. There is a list of newspapers at this URL with links to the papers if they have a webpage: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Obituaries/ 3. If the obits are not on-line then write to the local library (which you can find on one of the on-line directory services). List the date of death or better yet, list the obit date and newspaper if you have that information. Offer to cover copy costs and send a S.A.S.E. They usually will do it with precise information and charge you a dollar or two. Many will do old obits also or have a researcher/volunteer who works there do them for you. 4. If you are looking for older obituaries, then go to your local library and request a newspaper from your particular area for a particular date range. Their inter library loan department will be able to search for a source of the newspaper and it will be loaned to you through your library, usually for a short time, in-library use only. Be sure to ask that it be sent to a library local to you that has a microfilm reader/copier that you can use. There may be a small fee. ****If you are researching in KS or MN, they have great historical societies that have newspapers microfilmed and list them on-line. 5. There is a list on rootsweb specifically for obituary lookups. The rootsweb information page with links is at this URL: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Obituaries/ There are links to the pages for lists of volunteers for specific areas. If there is not a volunteer listed for a specific county/town where you need a lookup, then you are free to post your request on the list. The URL at rootsweb above that gives instructions on subscribing to the obituary lookup list and it's use. DISCOURAGED? Things you can do! SIX specific things you can do! I've been doing genealogy for 5 years. There SURE ARE up times and down times! There are somethings that I do to help fill in the down times. Some may not apply to everyone but the they all have worked for me at one time or another. Most research I had to do almost entirely from home, as I had small children to take care of. The first thing to remember is that the internet won't do everything we want it to do for us. We still need to use other sources for uncovering our family's history. These things below ALL have worked for me. IDEA #1 There are all kinds of library catalogs on-line from across the country that you can access through the internet. University libraries, County libraries, Historical Society Libraries, State Libraries. Find new resources for your towns, counties, states of interest (microfilmed records, reference books, state censuses, microfilmed newspapers) and go to your local library and request these resources through inter library loan. My library system allows me to request things on-line and I don't have to leave my house. They notify me when the items arrive and I go down and view them. Most of the time there is little or NO CHARGE to me, but your library might be different. ALWAYS indicate what information you need (i.e.. surnames you are researching) in case the library who has the resource won't lend but will photocopy for you. IDEA #2 If you can't go back any farther on your direct line, start researching your collateral lines. These collateral lines often lead to new names, and other researchers who may know more about your direct line that you do now. For more uncommon surnames, use an internet telephone directory and find out how many of those surnames NOW reside in your town/county of interest. If the number is not large, write them all a letter and tell them you are researching your family history and ask for their help. Tell them that if they are not interested in corresponding with you, please could they give you a name of someone else in the family who would be willing to do so. If you get a genuine response from a genuine relative, you may have hit the jackpot. (THIS WORKS!) IDEA#3 Get obituaries for ALL of those deceased relatives. You never know what tidbit of information they might have that you don't have. There are many ways of doing this. Newspapers on microfilm through inter library loan is one way. If that doesn't work, try writing to the local library in the town that the person died in. Enclose an S.A.S.E and offer to pay for copy costs. Usually you get a response and a bill for only $2-$3. It is best to have a close if not exact date. Check the obituary daily times URL on the web and see if anyone in your area of interest has died recently and has a familiar surname. Get their obituary and perhaps it will be a relative (the page and date are included in that database). (OBITUARIES CAN BE A GOLD MINE!) IDEA#4 If you are like me, you MAY have a little bit of genealogical filing piling up on your desk somewhere. A teeensy, weeensy bit? Mountains, that's me! Each time I sit down to tackle my filing, I start sorting out the papers and I always run across something that I was going to follow up on but didn't. Then I do. Try it. IDEA#5 Rootsweb has such a great SSDI that allows you to post post-it-notes on a person's record. Go to the site and lookup up each of your relatives on the SSDI and post your name, email address and US Mailing ADDRESS (in case your email address changes in the future) so that anyone else looking up those people will now you are a fellow researcher. (I am just starting to do this myself) IDEA#6 There may be a query board or two on the internet where you can put queries and surnames that you haven't found yet. I place queries or at least my surnames (collateral lines, too) of interest at every site that I can. If my people lived in six different states, I have a query in each county in each state that they lived in. Here are a few: genweb sites for counties, rootsweb surname query boards, Family Tree Maker's genforum query boards for surnames, as well as states, counties, "Genealogy's Most Wanted," Ancestry's Familyhistory.com forums for locations and surnames, Rootweb RSL, rootsweb's worldconnect. ! Barb bthomas@wport.com

I do have a small obit for Lucian and Marie. Do you have anything on their daughter and family. I would like to email you direct.

Hello All! I am trying to find information regarding birth parents for a friend of mine. Can anyone help me in the right direction? He was born 03-23-70 and adopted 5-01-70 through Lutheran Brotherhood, now known as AAL(I believe). He was born at Memorial Hospital possibly Lincoln Memorial Hospital in Milwaukee, WI. at 11:35P.M. He is trying to find out for medical history reasons; nothing wrong, but would like to know history of family health. If he could find them, it is possible he would like to contact them. Can anyone maybe help me in the right direction on where to start my search for him? Thank you, Faith blount@netnet.net The Roots of my tree. ACKERMANN, ARTHUR, BAXTER, BLEVINS, BLOUNT, CARTER, CAUDILL, DAVISSON, ELDRIDGE, EICH, FRIEND, GLASSBURN, GREENE, HALL, HONEYCUTT/HUNCOTE, MCKENNY, ROEDER, ROTH(E), SPINLER, STILTNER, TIPTON, TRITT, WOODS.

Florence GRANGER married George HUGHES, they had a son James HUGHES. Florence was a nurse and worked at one of the hospitals in Milwaukee,and is believed to have died in Milwaukee, date & year unknown. Her parent's names George GRANGER & Mary Krause,(my ggrandparents) I don't know what happened to her husband George. There son James from family rumor moved to Illinois. Sound familiar to anyone? Deanna _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/

Searching for info. on this family. Do any of these names sound familiar? Henry HARMILLER married Amelia LUDKE, they resided in Milwaukee around 1949. I'm especially interested in Amelia, if that is her correct first name. I'm going by info. that was on her father Carl/Charles interment paper from Waukesha Prairie Home Cemetery. This paper lists her as daughter & informant as being Mrs. Henry HARMILLER. Her fathers place of death states Milwaukee, so I'm guessing he resided with his daughter after his wife passed several years earlier in Waukesha. Deanna _______________________________________________________ Send a cool gift with your E-Card http://www.bluemountain.com/giftcenter/

It's always helpful to have dates when looking or asking for information. At 08:20 AM 8/1/2001 -0600, you wrote: > My Lucian Hinkamp was married to Marie Bertram. I think both are > deceased. Marie was a cousin to my mother-in-law and I would like to > finishing adding that family to our family history. I think they lived > inth Milwaukee area. A daughter Linda married to Jame Malek. > > >============================== >Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 Maxine Capezza

Thanks, Bob. Someone forwarded the information to me. Darlene ----- Original Message ----- From: <Gartzr@aol.com> To: <WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:54 AM Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] Directories for Milwaukee for 1988-1901 > The Milwaukee Public Library has hard copies of just about every City > Directory that has ever been published, donated to them some years ago by > historic Forest Home Cemetery where I donate time. They also have most all > of them, if not all, on microfilm. I wish I could go there for you and look > it up but my eyes just do not let me read microfilm any longer. Maybe a > request to this list will find someone headed to down town Milwaukee who > would be willing to stop in and look it up for you. > > Bob of Brookfield > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > >