Cheryl, Mary and Susan, I am planning to attend the National Genealogy Societies Conference in Milwaukee in May and have been following this thread with great interest. If you three have the extra time, would it be possible for you to continue giving us tips like these and where else to research and where to stay, where to eat and anything else you think would be helpful for those of us that will be attending this wonderful conference. I plan on doing the conference, taking all the classes on how to research Milwaukee and Wisconsin and if there are tours will take those too. Then plan on renting a car after the conference and staying for a week and doing research on my lovely 20 some year deadend families, Schmalz and Traxel and Sellman. Have never been to Wisconsin and could use all the help I can get to make the most of my limited time there. Thanks, Marilyn Fiedler ms.fiedler@att.net Bend, Oregon Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] A newbie's trip to the Milwaukee County Register of Deeds. Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:51:20 -0600 From: "Joseph J & Maxine M. Capezza" <jcapezza@cafes.net> To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com 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 Subject: Re: [WiMilwau] A newbie's trip to the Milwaukee CountyRegister of Deeds. Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 22:13:19 -0600 From: "Mary Frank" <mrfrank@des.uwm.edu> To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com Maxine, yes, you can still look at the record books. That's what I'll be doing on the 11th. You can go for 4 hours at a time, but you have to make appointments in advance. The first time you go, you fill out a form that they keep on file for you. Mary Milwaukee, WI Subject: [WiMilwau] A newbie's trip to the Milwaukee County Register of Deeds. Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 06:48:04 -0800 From: "Susan Nokes" <snokes@tscnet.com> To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com 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