> >I have been looking for family records and have found that my >Grgrandfather and his family lived in St.Cloud, WI. I thought that St. >Cloud was in Fond du Lac Co. >but just lately have found some listings of birth records on the >Sheboygan Co web site. >Was part of St. Cloud in Sheboygan Co? I have some records that show >that the Werschem family belonged to St. Joseph Catholic Church, St. >Cloud, WI in the 1850's. >Also, when were death records first recorded in Sheboygan Co. and was >there a newspaper that may have had obituaries in l873? >Thank you in advance for any help. >Mary Ann Hi Mary Ann, I am not sure if this will be of help to you or not. Here is what I have found by doing 8+ years of family research for my family members from Sheboygan County and also for other WIGenweb users who have/had family in Sheboygan. It is not uncommon to do what is called border hopping. What I mean by this is they could have very well lived in Sheboygan County, but attended a church in Fond du Lac county. It turly depended upon how close the church in their religion was, also depended upon the pastor/priest, etc. at the time they were attending. It may very well be that St. Cloud and Sheboygan County had to share the pastor/priest. Death records are here, some date back to the 1840's I believe we may even have a few from the 1830's, but it was not required to register a vital record by law in Wisconsin until June of 1907. So sometimes it is a hit and miss tpye of thing. I am currently working on getting the vital indexes on-line right now. I am finishing up the R births and will have them on within the next few days, which will make the births complete from the indexes at the Sheboygan County Courthouse. I have ordered all of the marriage indexes up to June of 1907 and as well as the births, I will be hand copying beyond 1907. As for the deaths, we are in need of donations to purchase the indexes to get them on-line. The Register of Deeds charges $1.00 a copied page and $1.00 to open the book for the copying. If you have not already checked out the Sheboygan County page, I strongly suggest you do so, you may very well find the surname you are looking for and perhaps some information that may be of more help to you. If you have any other questions, please feel free to ask, the url for the Sheboygan County page is listed below within the signature file. Debie Cash Surf, the fastest money maker I know of! Go here to learn more! http://www.cashsurfers.com/?a=HTML&s=Join&referrer=JoeWB http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sebring/index.htm (Our Purple Heart database) http://members.xoom.com/WISebring/Calumet/index.htm (WLHN Calumet County Page) http://members.xoom.com/WISebring/Sheboygan/index.htm (WLHN Sheboygan County Page) http://members.xoom.com/WISebring/Calumet/calumt.htm (Calumet Cty, WI. Genealogy page) http://members.xoom.com/WISebring/Sheboygan/sheboygn.htm (Sheboygan Cty, WI. Genealogy Page) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wicalume/ (Calumet Cty, WIGenweb page) http://www.rootsweb.com/~wisheboy/ (Sheboygan Cty, WIGenweb Page) http://www.excel.net/~sebring/index.htm (our family homepage) http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/b/l/i/Debie-J-Blindauer/ (Our surname database)