This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: ALLEN, COLBY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DFC.2ACE/1701 Message Board Post: Reply to Kathy Spirio It is important in queries to list the given names, birth and/or death deaths, and or the approximate timeframe in the location... That way, the researcher can narrow the search. Normally I don't do general requests like this, but there were only three entries... Land and Lumber ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/wi/portage/bios/landlumb.txt ALLEN, Mrytle - Pg 89 She is in a photo - caption mentions the women of the Espiscopal church - staged Kermis in 1894. ALLEN, Rowena - P 130, 132 Mentions Rowena was the Superintendent of Portage County Schools, 1954. Stated "Every boy or girl is entitled toa high school education" 1954. COLBY, Gardner - Pg 53 Eastern investors, Boston's Gardner COLBY... assume control of new corporation (Wisconsin Central) and set out to lay track. Other places you may wish to check are: Cemetery Index: http://library.uwsp.edu/cemetery/ Obit Index: http://library.uwsp.edu/obits/ I don't recognize your WEAVER surname, as my surnames in JuneauCoWI are ANDERSON, DesBOUILLON, HALL, LaBRUE. I am not related to this surname nor have any additional information on them. R/S MAK http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiportag