My goodness, I think a certain someone displayed her true colors, which I think just about said it all. By the way, I've been doing genealogy for 4 1/2 years now, which must make me a professional, right? :) And that's the last I'll say publicly on this little matter. Anyway, on with genealogy. As I mentioned in an earlier post, the state birth indexes are all messed up, so I was unable to find birth records on a g-grandfather and his siblings. Well, Debie's site had the index information in an easy-to-read fashion, which allowed me to find the birth records. It turns out the information was in the state birth indexes, but in a different section than expected. I likely would have never found it on my own. I do wish the vital information went up to today, but I think Wisconsin law prevents that, doesn't it? Plus, I think there's a privacy issue involved. I also found out the hard way that the Sheboygan County Registar of Deeds will charge $14 for each record if you don't have the vol and page information ($7 if you do), which Debie's site provides. I have a particular line and a lot of collateral lines who lived in Sheboygan County, so every little bit of information helps. I think the second most useful part of the site for me has been the marriage newspaper writeups. It has helped me connect people in my database as well as see what happened to some of the children of people I already do have. Plus, the newspaper information has covered later years that the vital indexes can't. I would suggest the USGenWeb sister site (would that be the proper term for it?) at http://www.rootsweb.com/~wisheboy/ as a complement to Debie's site, especially the obituary section (over 900 are posted right now). Going back and forth between the marriage writeups and the obits has helped me a lot. I would also recommend the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center (http://www.schrc.org/), assuming you can afford the $15/hour charge. I unexpectedly received emigration papers on a Prussian ancestor, though it was in the old German script; the Center was kind enough to charge only $15 to have it translated for me. I would highly recommend checking with them to see if they have emigration and naturalization information on your ancestor. They will send you cemetery listings if you give them a family name. They also have obits and marriage write-ups, though you should check to see if the two Sheboygan sites have that information first. They have all kinds of books and tons of other records that are too numerous to mention. If I ever get a chance to visit Wisconsin for a genealogy field trip, that's one of the places I would definitely visit. So, does anyone else wish to share what has been most useful to them on Debie's site? How about other Sheboygan resources? -- Dana in MD