Just found out that Milwaukee Public Library is sponsoring a Story Corps "outpost" from Jan. 25-July 25, 2007. If you aren't familiar with Story Corps, check out their website at: www.storycorps.net This is a neat program that allows common people to interview each other for an hour, makes a CD of their interview, and then gives them a copy and saves a copy for posterity. This might be a very good way to record some of our family memories! You can listen to clips of some of the stories at the website above. I've heard longer portions of some of these interviews on Milwaukee Public Radio. The program is nation-wide. MPL's link: http://www.mpl.org/file/storycorps.htm

Does anyone know if Milwaukee has burial permits available for research? I need to track down the burial in Milwaukee of a man that died overseas (so a death cert probably won't exist). He was buried in Milwaukee sometime after Oct. 1970. (Death date Oct. 30, 1970) I will be looking for the obituary/death notice tomorrow when I go to the library, but I thought I would ask about burial permits in case I don't find the death notice. Ellen- www.LinksToThePast.com