Cheryl, Thanks for telling us about your trip to the register of deeds. I thought that on certain days for a certain very few hours people could actually look at the records? A woman used to extract information from the records for me. I made up a form and filled in the name etc and then mailed it to her. She pulled the records and filled in the remaining data and sent the forms back to me. Sometime after that I read in the Milwaukee County Genealogical Society's REPORTER that the records wouldn't be as available as they had been. I didn't pay a lot of attention to the times and dates as I don't live in Wisconsin. But does this mean that researchers cannot look at the actual records, ever?? Just curious. Maxine Researching: Blum, Hoehnen, Maximillian Peters in Milwaukee Pray for Peace, Maxine Capezza

My experience has been that they are VERY strict about their appointment system..the clerks do not care if you have come from out of State...they assume you should know and call ahead to make an appointment before you ever arrive in Wisconsin. Appointments are 4 hours long, either morning or afternoon--and they will only pull records for 3 out of the 4 hours for you. You are expected to hand them the slip with the information, only 12 records will be pulled per month--and only one time per month will they pull records for the same person/researcher. I had 2 pages of rules to read, before I could even make an appointment. This occurred in November 2001. Susan