Ashley-- your chitchat is distressing me and becoming off-topic. If you wish to discuss all this further, I suggest that I meet you at Milwaukee's Serb Hall during next Friday's Fish Fry. And feel free to bring some of your nicer Croat relatives. While almost all SERBS and CROATS are nice, I'll be there with some of my new Serb friends who don't do much chitchat in either Croatian or English-- or even Serbian or Macedonian. They all happen to be former ethnic cleansers who were closely associated with former Yugoslav President Milosevic. Hopefully we'll be able to straighten you out on some of your concerns. Also, Ashley, although I won't ask of which organizations you are a card-carrying member, I'm curious whether you ever followed-up on my kind and lively "obit" posting of 7/19/01 (see below)-- or have you even glanced at most of my helpful recent WiMIlwau postings (that Bob of Brookfield oddly describes as "dissertations")?? Probably not. And why, as requested in all your recent postings (see below), must I always reply to you ON-LIST, rather than off-list?? The latter would allow me to be more candid. Me smo zivi? [mi jesu ziv??]. Zbogom! And please have a nice day :) ..........John ______________________________________________________ In a message dated 7/25/01 2:35:34 PM Central Daylight Time, grubisic@netwurx.net writes: > Subj: [WiMilwau] G word: resources in Mo and IL and PA > Date: 7/25/01 2:35:34 PM Central Daylight Time > From: grubisic@netwurx.net (Ashley Tiwara) > Reply-to: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com > To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com > > John and the list..... Transplanted Wisconsin families ought to keep their puny, > withered cheeseheads quiet about their former state, which appears to still be > locked into the 20th century record keeping system. To the dismay of family > researchers who want their answers NOW, and want them cheap, ______________________________________________________ <<Subj: obit info: Milwaukee Public Library Date: 7/19/01 12:34:42 AM Central Daylight Time From: JQMagie To: WIMILWAU-L@rootsweb.com To Ashley..... for more info, the Milwaukee Public Library staff tells me to use the following inquiry form at: http://www.mpl.org/Files/Ask/index.htm or call the Milwaukee Public Library via their Ready Reference phone: 414-286-3011 or via their Humanities phone: 414-286-3061 My understanding is that Milwaukee Public Library staff gives high priority to info requests from card-carrying Milwaukee library patrons (this presumably includes YOU, Ashley), medium priority to other Wisconsin residents, and LOW priority to aliens (like me). I'm also told that MPL's Humanities Division has copies of many Milwaukee newspaper death notices and obits prior to June 16, 1995-- but apparently this stuff has all been collected by volunteers and is of uneven quality. The Humanities staff tells me that MPL is willing to send out duplicates of all the above as long as it is reimbursed for copying costs. .......John (in Chicago)>> ______________________________________________________