This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/857.1 Message Board Post: Since my posting of this original message some fine folks on the http://norwayheritage.com forum have informed me that Birgit Reiersdatter and husband Ole Olsen Rinden along with children Torjus and Kari emigrated from Laurdal Telemark Norway in spring 1861 bound for Quebec. They also gave me the birthdates of this family so I now know their ages but I'm still looking for information on Betsey (Birgit) after 1872. Ralph

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4EC.2ACE/865.2 Message Board Post: Herseyville was a little settlement located west of Sparta Monroe County Wisconsin. I suggest you contact The Monroe County Local History Room mclhr@centurytel.net or visit them at 200 W. Main Sparta WI They will have more info on Herseyville and they have much info about past and present Monroe County residents archived there. Hope this helps. Ralph

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4EC.2ACE/865.1 Message Board Post: Reva: Check out this site. At least it tells you that Herseyville is in Sparta township. http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimonroe/history/Towns/townships.html Good luck............Jan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gantka Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4EC.2ACE/865 Message Board Post: My great grandmothers sisters obituary said she was born in Herseyville. Can anyone tell me where that is located so I can start looking. Is it Monroe Co and what township would it have been in. Also where can I find maps that show townships. I am looking for the year 1860

Found via Ancestry.com: 1870 Henry Tuphorn 50y b Prussia-Sparta, Monroe WI Emma R " - 35y b NY ": Amelia " - 14y b WIS " Luzetta " - 12y b WIS " Louis A " - 10y bWIS " +++++ 1880 A Tuphorn - 45yr b NY Self-Sparta, Monroe WI Henry " - 60y b Prussia F-I-L Sparta, Monroe WI Guri " - 56y b Nor wife Amherst, Portage, WI Henry " - 65yr b Prussia Self Amherst, Portage, WI ++++ Looks like A Tuphorn in 1880 could have been Emma R Tuphorn in 1870. Henry Tuphorn in 1870 could be the 60 yr Henry in 1880 and living with one of his children. Sometimes woman seperated from husbands were listed as widows (for various reasons as the custom of the day)

Listers: I would like to make a correction in regard to an 1880 census abstract sent to me by the local History Room in March 2003. Page 30, Monroe County, family 260. A. Tuphorn was a 45 year old widowed female and a tailoress. She lived in Sparta Village in 1880. She was born in NY. Her father was born in Penn., and her mother was born in NY. Marilyn Steber San Diego

It is available, just contact them for costs. Shari > Has any thought been given to making the Surname Index available to those of > us who purchased the earlier printing of the book? I would be interested in > one. Even if it was just a 'machine copy' of the index. > > > Susanne Farnham-Hieber

The state historical society is asking everyone to vote on what they feel are the turning points in Wisconsin history. To vote, go to the following website: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/

Forwarded from Monroe County Local History Museum and Reasearch Room Be sure to check out Monroe County Local History Museum and Research Room http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimonroe/MCLHMaRR/ They are a non-profit organization - and will do lookups - I suggest you snail mail with SASE. They are free, but gladly accept donations - all donations go to support their work.... Be sure to give them given names and approx dates to help narrow the search. +++ --- Monroe County Local History Room <MCLHR@centurytel.net> wrote: Hello everyone. As many of you know, last year we sold out of the popular book "Monroe Co. Pictorial History, leaving many of you in want of a copy. Because of the expressed high interest in reprinting this book, the Monroe County Local History Room has decided to reprint it. Better yet, the new version will feature a SURNAME INDEX. Below you'll find an ad for the book for those interested in purchasing a copy of the book at it's presale price, thus saving $10.00 off the regular price. Jarrod M. Roll Monroe County Historian Monroe County Local History Room & Museum 200 W. Main St. Sparta, WI 54656 608-269-8680 (fax) 608-269-8921 --------------------------------- MONROE COUNTY PICTORIAL HISTORY AVAILABLE FOR PRESALE! The Monroe County Pictorial History is now available for presale! The Pictorial was published in 1976 by the former county bicentennial committee who established your LHR and Genealogical Library as we know it today. This book has been our most popular seller. It is the only book ( 460 pages) of early pictures, settlers and a birds eye history of every township, village, city, town and ghost towns of the county. It originally did not have an every name index. The Monroe County Local History Room board of trustees are republishing it with an added every name index. The Pictorial is a must for area libraries, genealogists, and historical societies. Presale price for this book is $18.00 plus $4.00 s/h [note: WI sales add $1.00 sales tax-unless you have tax-exempt status]. Deadline for presale price is June 1. After printing is $28.00. If you would like a copy mailed to you when available (approximately June 2004) fill in the bottom and send a check ASAP to: ---------------------------------------------- Mail to: Monroe County Local History Room 200 W. Main St. Sparta, WI 54656 ________________________________________________________________________ Name (please print) ________________________________________________________________________ Mailing address, St., Apt., Box, Rt. ________________________________________________________________________ City State ZIP __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/

In a message dated 5/18/2004 5:03:38 AM Eastern Standard Time, WIMONROE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: "Monroe Co.Pictorial History, leaving many of you in want of a copy. Because of the expressed high interest in reprinting this book, the Monroe County Local History Room has decided to reprint it. Better yet, the new version will feature a SURNAME INDEX. *** Has any thought been given to making the Surname Index available to those of us who purchased the earlier printing of the book? I would be interested in one. Even if it was just a 'machine copy' of the index. Susanne Farnham-Hieber

Hello everyone. As many of you know, last year we sold out of the popular book "Monroe Co. Pictorial History, leaving many of you in want of a copy. Because of the expressed high interest in reprinting this book, the Monroe County Local History Room has decided to reprint it. Better yet, the new version will feature a SURNAME INDEX. Below you'll find an ad for the book for those interested in purchasing a copy of the book at it's presale price, thus saving $10.00 off the regular price. Jarrod M. Roll Monroe County Historian Monroe County Local History Room & Museum 200 W. Main St. Sparta, WI 54656 608-269-8680 (fax) 608-269-8921 --------------------------------- MONROE COUNTY PICTORIAL HISTORY AVAILABLE FOR PRESALE! The Monroe County Pictorial History is now available for presale! The Pictorial was published in 1976 by the former county bicentennial committee who established your LHR and Genealogical Library as we know it today. This book has been our most popular seller. It is the only book ( 460 pages) of early pictures, settlers and a birds eye history of every township, village, city, town and ghost towns of the county. It originally did not have an every name index. The Monroe County Local History Room board of trustees are republishing it with an added every name index. The Pictorial is a must for area libraries, genealogists, and historical societies. Presale price for this book is $18.00 plus $4.00 s/h [note: WI sales add $1.00 sales tax-unless you have tax-exempt status]. Deadline for presale price is June 1. After printing is $28.00. If you would like a copy mailed to you when available (approximately June 2004) fill in the bottom and send a check ASAP to: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- Mail to: Monroe County Local History Room 200 W. Main St. Sparta, WI 54656 ________________________________________________________________________ Name (please print) ________________________________________________________________________ Mailing address, St., Apt., Box, Rt. ________________________________________________________________________ City State Zip

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.families.aol.com/mbexec/msg/4300/4EC.2ACE/829.1.1 Message Board Post: please tell me about Gladys Fitch July 1904. I think this is my mothers real birth mom...

Jarrod & Marcia, I hope that this suggested project will come about. I was in Monroe County about 10 years ago, only able to be there about 4 hours; visited the museum and did read one newspaper article that was very interesting. I live in the eastern part of lower Michigan. My ancestors were in Monroe County in the 1860s to 1870s, in Leon Township. I walked their property. :-) I know how valuable databases on line are to people living a long distance away. We have been very active locally (Macomb County) to index many things. You may check the URL to see how our local library has made our indexing available to many people, who when they find something they need, contact the library for a copy of the article. My work on the indexing is a way of 'paying forward' to others for what I have used in other locations. http://www.libcoop.net/mountclemens/ Good luck in this project. Susanne Farnham-Hieber

Jarrod, Even if your message to the list was not meant to be sent to the list, I, for one, would like to say this newspaper index is a *fantastic* resource! One small item I found, which was included in your index, sent me on a search which lasted for almost a year and filled in so much family history! Any chance MCLHR might be considering putting the Monroe County court records database online also? That is another *jem* for family historians! Shari

My apologies to Marcia and the rest of you for my last message. My intension was to send it to MAK only but here I went and clogged all of your inboxes with it. Sorry! Jarrod M. Roll Monroe County Historian Monroe County Local History Room & Museum 200 W. Main St. Sparta, WI 54656 608-269-8680 (fax) 608-269-8921

Hello Marcia. One of the Monroe County Local History Room's (MCLHR) many ongoing genealogy projects is our onerous newspaper indexing project. Over the past few years, several volunteers and I have been extracting names from the Sparta Herald newspaper and inputting that info into an Access database. This info is mostly birth, death, and marriage notices, but also a growing list of articles of general interest (house fires, court activity, etc.). Each entry lists the person's name, a description of the article, paper name, issue date, page and column number. Our database currently contains 30,000 entries, dating mostly from 1870-1910. We use it everyday here at the History Room and researchers find it invaluable. Like our Monroe Co. Cemetery Index, we propose sharing this index with the subscribers to your list. If you approve, I would provide the entire database as it is, so that it can be posted and accessed on the Monroe County rootsweb site. Viewing the database would be free. However, MCLHR would provide a copying service for a nominal fee to anyone who spots an article they would like a copy of. Cost would be $3.00 for the first article, $1.00 each additional article, with no more than six articles per request. We would request prepayment before sending the articles. This fee is based on what other similar groups charge for similar services. Because the newspaper indexing project is ongoing and growing, I would provide you quarterly updates. If you agree that this database would be of great use to those doing Monroe County research and would be willing to add the database to the Monroe Co. rootsweb site, I would provide all the wording we would require to inform people 1) how to obtain a copy of an article, 2) how much money to send, 3) and where to send it. I would also ask if I could post a message to the board announcing the availability of the database, along with any notices of updates (like you do with the cemetery indexes). Please let me know what you think about this idea. Part of our mission is to make Monroe Co. history as accessible as possible. This is one more way we can work toward that goal. If you agree to post our database, I will need to know what format I can send it to you. The Access database is currently 3.7 MB in size. Is that too large to email? If so, I can burn it to a disk and mail it to you. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for all the work you do on our rootsweb site. Jarrod M. Roll Monroe County Historian Monroe County Local History Room & Museum 200 W. Main St. Sparta, WI 54656 608-269-8680 (fax) 608-269-8921

Since I forwarded the first email, it is only fair to forward this as well. In response to numerous questions from users, the email below was posted on the RW Help Desk, which means the Family Trees are still available to be searched manually at no charge. While I accept that this is what they will do - I wonder if they were going to do this before the "uproar" - If so, the original page was sure misleading, and more importantly, Ancestry still will make money off of submitted material. It is similar to the FTM CDs - you donate years of hard work, and they cash in on it.... THINK TWICE before "buying" into this system.... Again, these are just my thoughts - again, below is the message, read it for yourself and decide.... -- A response to your Help Desk message, "One World Tree," of Mon, 3 May 2004, at 11:15 a.m. follows: ------------------------- Trees uploaded to either side (RW/Ancestry) are visible from both sides. Ancestry is *not* charging for access or selling trees: access will remain free from both the RootsWeb and Ancestry side as it has always been. What Ancestry is offering for an extra charge is access to a special search engine to search the trees for you. Folks can still search the trees manually or browse the trees for free the same way they always have. Think of it like a research assistant: you can hire someone to help you look for your ancestors, or you can research yourself for free. That's essentially what it is, except that it's computerized, not human. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

I am forwarding this to all my lists - and to people who may be interested in this new change - it goes against what USGenWeb stands for - FREE genealogy.... Please pass to ALCON - (all concerned) +++++ If you submitted a family tree to Ancestry.com (or MyFamily.com) for free viewing by researchers, that's all about to change. Later this month Ancestry plans to begin charging researchers to view your trees. If you don't want that, you'll have to remove your tree. Go to: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/trees/owt/ Click on "What's a Preview" Scroll down to #3: Have you already submitted a family tree? Click on "view our checklist" A few lines down you will see: "If for any reason you do not want your tree to be part of the new OneWorldTree service, you must delete it from the Ancestry World Tree database by tentatively May 21, 2004." There are instructions for removing your tree: http://ancestry.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ancestry.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1090 ===== MAKtranscriber http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwood http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiportag http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimonroe __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4EC.2ACE/17.200 Message Board Post: I am researching John Kenyon who married Julia Purdy in New York and moved to Michigan in 1830s - 1840. Does this have any connection to the family bible? They had five children; Cordelia, Isaac, Francis, Rachael and Mary Susan.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Axelson, Koss Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4EC.2ACE/859 Message Board Post: Descendants of these persons are welcome to retrieve a photo of Robert Koss (1905) and Christ Axelson (teens?), both of which were in my grandmother's (Emma Hass/Kiefer Hoffman) photo collection.