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/CGC.2ACI/767.1 Message Board Post: Here are some useful websites: To order birth, death, and marriage certificates: http://www.co.winnebago.wi.us/registerofdeeds/RODVitRcds.htm To locate and order obituaries (this index focuses on Oshkosh): http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/obituaryindex/welcome.html To check earlier (1857 to 1893) city directories (1857-1891 are Oshkosh only; 1893 includes all of Winnebago County): http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/citydirs/welcome.html Directories for 1895-1922 are scheduled to be digitized later this year. If these folks lived in Oshkosh, they are most likely to be buried at Riverside Cemetery, which is not online. Write to the office at 1901 Algoma Blvd., Oshkosh 54901. Further suggestions, lists of county history books: http://www.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/pages/history/genealogy.html Good luck!