If these names sound familiar to you, you will find some good info in the city library in New Richmond: Jane Bowron from Huntingdon, Canada and her sons - William, John Robert, Stanley and daughter Charlotte. The Bowron boys built the first grist mill in Huntington and the second one in St. Croix County. They are written up in a book titled Ox Cart Days at the library, page 20. The library also has an index for finding many, many old obits on microfilm. Jane settled in Huntington, WI, 5 miles from New Richmond, and there is also history at the library about that little town with mention of the Bowrons. Jim At 01:11 AM 6/17/03 -0600, you wrote: >WISTCROI-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 133 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [St. Croix] Seeking Onsite Info fo ["Kathleen Perelli" > <[email protected]] > #2 RE: [St. Croix] Seeking Onsite Inf ["Scott and Roxanne Munns" > <srmunns] > #3 Re: [St. Croix] Seeking Onsite Inf [Joy Roos > <[email protected]] > >Administrivia: >-- Roxanne Munns ([email protected]), list owner -- > >To unsubscribe from WISTCROI-D, send a message to > > [email protected] > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > >To contact the list administrator, send mail to >[email protected] > > > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 13:47:41 -0500 >From: "Kathleen Perelli" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: [St. Croix] Seeking Onsite Info for St. Croix area >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I am hopefully planning on coming to the St. Croix, Hudson, River Falls area >on a genealogy trip in the very near future - possibly end of June. I am >specifically searching for the MILBEE and BOWRON families. > >As I have never done this before, I'm not sure any of what I may want to do >is even possible or how to go about obtaining some items: > Searching for birth, marriage, death records > probate records, etc. > land records > church, cemetery and birth records > whatever else is available to me > >What might I have access to of any of the above - viewing actual items, >copies of or on film? > >What restrictions might there be? What do I need to bring (aside from the >obvious) - i.e. ID's? Would a laptop generally be allowed? > >I am a Wisconsin resident and have been to the State Historical Society >frequently in the past is this helps for background info. > >Thank you - I certainly will appreciate any help in this area! > > >Kathleen Perelli >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:44:01 -0500 >From: "Scott and Roxanne Munns" <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [St. Croix] Seeking Onsite Info for St. Croix area >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Kathleen, > >Birth, marriage, death, probate, and land records should all be at the St. >Croix County courthouse (mostly in the Register of Deeds office). I have >their phone number and address on the website at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wistcroi/vitalrec.htm. I would suggest giving them >a call to find out exactly what you need to do research in their office. >The Register of Deeds in many Wisconsin counties do require a picture ID the >first time you research in their office. They'll also be able to tell you >about the electronic equipment they allow, as well as copying costs if they >don't allow scanners (some don't). > >Next, I would look at the Area Research Center in River Falls for other >records. Their contact information is on the same webpage I listed above. >They should have newspapers, sometimes they also copy (to microfilm) much of >the vital records from the Register of Deeds, cemetery transcriptions (by >the local genealogical society), etc. The St. Croix Valley Genealogical >Society does much of their research from this Area Research Center, so they >may be able to help you find the answer to some of your specific questions. > >Anyone else have some recommendations? These (to me) have been the biggest >help during my genealogical journeys in Wisconsin! > >Roxanne >St. Croix CC > >-----Original Message----- >From: Kathleen Perelli [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 1:48 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [St. Croix] Seeking Onsite Info for St. Croix area > > >I am hopefully planning on coming to the St. Croix, Hudson, River Falls area >on a genealogy trip in the very near future - possibly end of June. I am >specifically searching for the MILBEE and BOWRON families. > >As I have never done this before, I'm not sure any of what I may want to do >is even possible or how to go about obtaining some items: > Searching for birth, marriage, death records > probate records, etc. > land records > church, cemetery and birth records > whatever else is available to me > >What might I have access to of any of the above - viewing actual items, >copies of or on film? > >What restrictions might there be? What do I need to bring (aside from the >obvious) - i.e. ID's? Would a laptop generally be allowed? > >I am a Wisconsin resident and have been to the State Historical Society >frequently in the past is this helps for background info. > >Thank you - I certainly will appreciate any help in this area! > > >Kathleen Perelli >[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > > >==== WISTCROI Mailing List ==== >*** Roxanne Munns, Listowner ([email protected]) *** >To unsubscribe: send e-mail to [email protected] >with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go >to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >______________________________X-Message: #3 >Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:48:31 -0500 >From: Joy Roos <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [St. Croix] Seeking Onsite Info for St. Croix area >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hi Kathleen > >St. Croix County Courthouse is in Hudson Wisconsin in the same building as the >courthouse. I-94 to exit 2 go north past golf course until you see it on >the left >side of the road. Probate and land records will be found there along with >birth >marriage and death records after 1907. I am more familiar with Polk Co >records, so I >cannot help here. > >University of River Falls Library in the basement is Archives room with >cemetery >listings and tombstone abstractions in most cemeteries in the three county >area. >Also they have census microfilms of state and Federal census and >microfiche of >birth,death and marriages before 1907. They have microfilms of the actual >birth >death and marriage certificates on those found on microfiche. They have many >homestead records also,ask the librarian for assistance.They also have many >biographies in the card catalogue behind the desk. They also have >newspapers on >microfilm back to the late 1860s, depending on the newspaper. The library >may have >new summer hours, so I am including email to the archives librarian so you can >contact her. Laptops are OK. > >[email protected] > >Keep in mind that River Falls is in two counties. Pierce County records are in >Ellsworth. > >Hope this helps a bit > >Joy > >Kathleen Perelli wrote: > > > I am hopefully planning on coming to the St. Croix, Hudson, River Falls > area > > on a genealogy trip in the very near future - possibly end of June. I am > > specifically searching for the MILBEE and BOWRON families. > > > > As I have never done this before, I'm not sure any of what I may want to do > > is even possible or how to go about obtaining some items: > >