I decided to repost this request as I felt that the original may have been lost in the "Bicker Fest" that has recently been occurring on the Milwaukee list.... Sorry to be redundant, for those who saw but could offer no help, and those that had no part of what was going on.....Wendy **I need a little help. Does anyone know how to access records for a person who was in this home? (Northwest Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers) My husbands gg grandfather Daniel Boyle is listed in the 1900 census at the home. The census then goes on to state that he is "absent". I can not find a death record/burial for him but believe he died Nov 5, 1905. I was hoping that maybe records still existed for men at the home. I am having quite the time with this family. Daniel Boyle married Margaret White Oct 1865 in Watertown Jefferson, Wisconsin. I can not find a marriage record. They appear on the 1860 - 1880 census as living in Douglas, Marquette, Wisconsin. During that time they had at least 7 children, Mary -15 Oct 1866, John William 16 Nov 1868, Tressie 1870, Julia 1874, Maggie 1877 & Eugene 15 Jan 1880. But.... I can find NO birth, death or marriage records for anyone in the family. I have no idea who Daniels parents are. He was born in Ireland. Hence the hope of a marriage record for Daniel & Margaret. >From what I can piece together from pension records Daniel had an accident with a streetcar May 30 1893 in Milwaukee. I have no idea if he was living in the home at that time or perhaps in Milwaukee. I do know that by Oct 1893 he was living in Briggsville, Marquette, Wisconsin. So I think that he was probably just in Milwaukee for another reason. Just a guess. Thanks for any help you can give me. Wendy in Washington state

Wendy, Did you check any church records for Watertown? http://library.uww.edu/COLLECTN/ChurchCemeteryRec.htm Here is another page with information about the Area Research Center that includes Jefferson County. There is email contact information at the bottom. They "might" be willing to look for you, or they may do this for a fee--you could email them. The films they have would be the same ones as held by the library in Utah--if you have a Family Research Center nearby, you could get the films themselves, but they'd be identifed with a number. You can go to www.familysearch.org and look through their catalog to find the information they have on Watertown records--did you do that yet? 1865 is about the time they "started" to keep the official records--you'd probaby have better luck with the church records. mrf Quoting wdanderson2@peoplepc.com: **I need a little help. Does anyone know how to access records for a person who was in this home? (Northwest Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers) My husbands gg grandfather Daniel Boyle is listed in the 1900 census at the home. The census then goes on to state that he is "absent". I can not find a death record/burial for him but believe he died Nov 5, 1905. I was hoping that maybe records still existed for men at the home. I am having quite the time with this family. Daniel Boyle married Margaret White Oct 1865 in Watertown Jefferson, Wisconsin. I can not find a marriage record. They appear on the 1860 - 1880 census as living in Douglas, Marquette, Wisconsin. During that time they had at least 7 children, Mary -15 Oct 1866, John William 16 Nov 1868, Tressie 1870, Julia 1874, Maggie 1877 & Eugene 15 Jan 1880. But.... I can find NO birth, death or marriage records for anyone in the family. I have no idea who Daniels parents are. He was born in Ireland. Hence the hope of a marriage record for Daniel & Margaret. >From what I can piece together from pension records Daniel had an accident with a streetcar May 30 1893 in Milwaukee. I have no idea if he was living in the home at that time or perhaps in Milwaukee. I do know that by Oct 1893 he was living in Briggsville, Marquette, Wisconsin. So I think that he was probably just in Milwaukee for another reason. Just a guess. Thanks for any help you can give me. Wendy in Washington state