Speaking for myself, I will try to give a bit more information (soon) about Milwaukee. I haven't done a lot of research here, other than at the Courthouse and the UWM campus urban archives (I work at UWM). I haven't yet checked out the Milwaukee Historical Society (for the naturalization papers), nor have I gone to the Family Search Center in Hales Corners (a suburb of Milwaukee). If you are going to stay for a week, you may also wish to visit the State Historical Society in Madison (about a 70 mile drive from Milwaukee). Here is their website: http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/ There is a GENEALOGY link in the left column on that page. Can you tell us some more detail about the names/dates you would be researching in the Milwauke area? Also, can you tell us something about the conference? Mary Milwaukee >>> ms.fiedler@att.net 01/30/02 01:10PM >>> 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 ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237
About the conference, go here: http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ and click on Milwaukee 2002! Mary Frank wrote: > Speaking for myself, I will try to give a bit more information (soon) > about Milwaukee. I haven't done a lot of research here, other than at > the Courthouse and the UWM campus urban archives (I work at UWM). I > haven't yet checked out the Milwaukee Historical Society (for the > naturalization papers), nor have I gone to the Family Search Center in > Hales Corners (a suburb of Milwaukee). > > If you are going to stay for a week, you may also wish to visit the > State Historical Society in Madison (about a 70 mile drive from > Milwaukee). Here is their website: > > http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/ There is a GENEALOGY link in the left column > on that page. > > Can you tell us some more detail about the names/dates you would be > researching in the Milwauke area? > > Also, can you tell us something about the conference? > > Mary > Milwaukee > > >>> ms.fiedler@att.net 01/30/02 01:10PM >>> > > 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 > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please > see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > ==== WIMILWAU Mailing List ==== > For subscribe/unsubscribe and other general list information, please see > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/wimilwau.htm > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237