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Dear Rose;
Appreciated very much that you took the time to dig in the records at
Eagle, WI. There were no hits.....but, frankly that's a big help,
because, I was laboring under the mistaken notion that if I stopped in
Eagle, on a Wisconsin fact finding mission, that I'm hoping to
accomplish someday soon, I would find some stuff. Now, I know
differently, and this allows me to try a couple of other avenues and
probably boot Eagle, as it were.....
Thanks again, this is really nice of you..to do this for all of us who,
unfortunately, no longer live in WI. (boohoo) or worse, never lived in
WI.
Faye A. Tetzlaff
On 18 May 98, I jumped into my car and started the quest across the great
nation of the United States of America, home to the USGenWeb Projects, and a
vast variety of my ancestors...
WOW, AM I IMPRESSED with the wonderful people I met and want to share with
those of you patient enough to read this.
First stop, was Kansas, where I stopped in Reno and Sterling Counties. The
clerk at the Hutchinson Courthouse remembered me and send me packng to
Sterling - chidding me that I should have went there last time. Well, of
course, I got there after the local librarian left, but the young girls at
the desk, pointed over to a reference table where the town historian, Mr
Moxley, sat. He said, "Been here a long time, don't recall DESBOUILLONs,
but there were 5 French families, and LAVIELLEs, well, are you sure you
don't want Lavielle Cantwell?" Well, that wasn't on my list, so he sent me
off to the cememtary where, to my disbelief, were 15 of my closest
ancesters, and right in the middle, sure enough was Lavielle Cantwell. His
mother (Lavielle), my great great aunt, married a Cantwell and named her
son thus, so the family name would be carried on. She was the last of the
line... Of course, I went back to the library and while he helped me look
up obits and family bios, we chatted about newspapers (he being the local
newspaperman retired) and sure enough didn't he know my grandfather MORTON
from Burr Oak KS... the editor of the Burr Oak Chronicle. It was just
simply wonderful to talk with a man so rich in history and so wonderful to
help me in my quest for "the truth", as I call it...
Next stop was Kansas City, MO, where I met Maureen Reed and her husband and
two small children. Maureen has been helping me with military genealogy
stuff for many of my Marines, and I just wanted to see who this wonderful,
outspoken person was. We started talking and she is a QUILTER too, so I
spent the night, and the next day we went to her favorite quilt shop, where
I bought out the store - well, maybe not the entire store, but I joined the
block of the month club, by mail!!! It was a great time and I am glad to
have stopped. Not only do I have a face to go with the name, but wonderful
memories!!! Thanks Maureen.
Instead of going right to Wisconsin, I took a side trip to South Carolina to
visit my military friends and attend a change of command for my close friend
Liz. Liz is also a quilt lover, though not a quilter, and is the reason I
started to learn quilting this year... We went to Charleston, SC and
listened to some great Jazz and met some terrific people at the Spoletto
Crafts Show and Music Festival.
OK, next I went to Wisconsin. Driving through the country side, I
recognized the small town of Argle and on a lark, stopped to browse the
cemetary. THERE WERE ALL MY RELATIVES! With this information, I flew in
high speed to the county seat, and I have to tell you that the grand ATTABOY
goes to the clerks in Darlington Courthouse, Lafayette County. A lady,
named Fran and her husband, sat down and did an index for every birth and
death, and a marriage index, by both bride and groom. Can you imagine how
much work that was? In less than two hours, I had all the information on
all of the MILLIONs and SARDESONs and PORTERs that I could possible want. I
didn't even have to go to the cemetaries, like I thought I would. IT WAS
THE BEST GENEALOGICAL EFFORT I HAVE EVER UTILIZED! This was so exciting, no
I didn't find the guy REINKE I was looking for, but in two stops, I had just
about everyone else!!!
Next, I went to Wood County, and met Patti who is doing the brides index for
marriages. She was very wonderful. If you haven't used the Heart
O'Wisconsin Genealogical Society's cememtary indexs, well, you are missing
the boat. The records are very easy to use, and I am trying to get them to
put them onto the internet USGenWeb Cememtary Project, but that is another
story. However, it will be some time before Patti and the others are
finished with this!!! GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK
YOU, for future Wood COunty genealogical researchers.
My final stop was Minnesota. Now, for those of you who have tried to use
the Minnesota records, well, my sympathies to you. It is painful at best.
However, I really would like to thank the Carlton County Records Clerk who
was very patient and helpful. Unfortunately, only certain records could be
accessed, but I found my great grandfather REINKE's death
certificate!!!!!!! She sent me to the Cloquet Genealogical Society, who had
the actually marriage indexs and I FOUND my grandparents marriage
certificate!!!!!!! Then she suggested I try looking in the 1910 Census
under Wrensall township, a large German population. After almost 5,000
miles and hours of searching, there they were. These wonderful people then
sent me to the library where I found two very important and detailed
obituaries, of not one, but two great grandparents REINKE and SCHULTZ. I
was so excited, I almost jumped for joy, however, searching the cemetary
indexs, I could not find the cemetary they were buried in. The historians
gave me a name of Ron, and I drove to the small Swedish Lutheran church
cemetary, There were no headstones in the cemetary, so I was reading the
map trying to determine what to do next, when I accidently found him and his
wife, while I was eating my lunch in their empty parking lot, coming to
clean the church. Searching the old records with them, we came across my
greatgrandparents names and my grandfather, written in German, but they made
me copies and now I just need to get them translated. Spreken de Duetch?
There just aren't enough words to thank all of them. They were WONDERFUL...
and now, after finding the pieces, I will put them in my databases and share
the results with others searching for their KUEHLs, REINKEs, SCHULTZs,
PORTERs, BURKEs, DESBOUILLONs, SARDESONs, and others... It will take hours
of compilation, but it will be so satisfying...
I had intended to stay another week, but between the Tornados of WI, MN, SD
and the cold weather, it encouraged me to drive to Yellowstone, instead of
north to Winnepeg Canada... What a laugh, I landed in the middle of a snow
storm, so I drove back to California the next day. But first, I witnessed
the migration of the buffalo, fording rivers with their newly born calves,
moose coming from the high country, and countless elk, muledeer and other
animals grazing in the fields and forests of that beautiful national park...
Anyways, if you look for the good in people, it will be there. None of
these people had to help me search, but they did. They asked me questions
and provided resources that I wouldn't have found on my own. The small
local librarians had a ton of wealth, and so willing to help, so friendly.
To all of these individuals, again I say, THANKS, for helping me, for the
research hours I would have wasted without your help, for listening to
stupid questions, and for helping me find, "the truth". If I can only help
one person as much as they have me, I will be happy!!!
R/S MAK
At 07:05 PM 6/5/98 -0400, J. HUFSCHMID wrote:
>Hi,
>Can anyone help this person out?
>
>Thanks,
>Jackie L. Hufschmid
>MN State Coordinator - http://www.rootsweb.com/~mngenweb
>Roseau Co., MNGenWeb CC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnroseau
>Jefferson Co., WIGenWeb CC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wijeffer
>Juneau Co., WIGenWeb CC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wijuneau
>Chippewa Co., WIGenWeb CC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wichippe
>Kenosha Co., WiGenWeb CC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~wikenosh/kenoindex.htm
>St. Lucie Co., FLGenWeb CC - http://www.rootsweb.com/~flstluci/stlucie.htm
>
>----------
>> From: ELIZABETH R SIPPLE <LIZSIPPLE(a)prodigy.net>
>> To: JHUFSCHMID(a)prodigy.net
>> Subject: RESEARCH PAPER
>> Date: Saturday, June 06, 1998 12:54 AM
>>
>> HI JACKIE,
>>
>> I'M LOOKING FOR SOME INFO ON THE HISTORY AND SETTLEMENTS OF BOHEMIANS IN
>> WISC. I'M TAKING A CLASS IN WISC. HISTORY AND I'D LIKE TO DO MY RESEARCH
>> PAPER ON THIS (BEING THAT I'M PART BOHEMIAN). I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND A
>WHOLE
>> LOT...ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
>>
>> THANKS,
>>
>> LIZ
>
>
>
I have some Bohemian in my family as well. The big settlement place, that I
know of, has been in Oconto county area, some in Brown County (Green Bay),
and Menominee (close to the MI/WI border). My family also stayed in the
Lodi (Dane/Columbia) county area for awhile before moving to Oconto County.
Good Luck!
Thanks,
Peggy Perry
pegmar(a)mhtc.net
Moderator for The Obituary Daily Times
the email newspaper of obituaries from around the world!
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WI GenWeb coordinator for Iowa County - visit us at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiiowa
President - Iowa County Wisconsin Genealogical Society
http://www.friendsnfamily.net/wiiowagensoc/index.html
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with the message: subscribe
In a message dated 6/5/98 6:10:56 PM, JHUFSCHMID(a)prodigy.net wrote:
<<> HI JACKIE,
>
> I'M LOOKING FOR SOME INFO ON THE HISTORY AND SETTLEMENTS OF BOHEMIANS IN
> WISC. I'M TAKING A CLASS IN WISC. HISTORY AND I'D LIKE TO DO MY RESEARCH
> PAPER ON THIS (BEING THAT I'M PART BOHEMIAN). I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND A
WHOLE
> LOT...ANY HELP WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.>>
Hi Liz,
You might want to check this out. I suspect it is available from the State
Historical Society:
Vlach, J.J. "Our Bohemian Population" _Wisconsin State Historical Society
Proceedings_ (1901).
Warmly,
Dawn M. Knauft, CGRS
WiSearch, Professional Genealogical Research
http://www.msn.fullfeed.com/~wisearch
At 06:15 PM 6/3/98 -0400, Dale Ebersold wrote:
>Anyone else having trouble accessing their GenWeb or Archive pages at
>rootsweb?
>
>Dale Ebersold
>Vincennes, Indiana
>http://www.abcs.com/ebersold
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>County Coordinator for the WIGenWeb Project:
>Buffalo http://www.abcs.com/ebersold/buffalo
>La Crosse http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilacros/lacrosse.html
>Trempealeau http://www.rootsweb.com/~witrempe/trempindex.html
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>
>----------
>> From: Marsha Wilcox <mwilcox(a)lnd.com>
>> To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
>> Subject: Re: New Wisconsin SC
>> Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 12:35 PM
>>
>> Robin & Vickie,
>>
>> Robin, I'll be very sorry to see you go. You've been a pleasure to work
>> with, enthusiastic and supportive. But, I understand.
>>
>> Vickie, Welcome! I'm sure you'll do a great job! You already have
>> been... ;-)
>>
>> Happy Hunting!
>> Marsha Wilcox
>> mwilcox(a)lnd.com
>> Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/wwd.html
>> USGenWeb County Coordinator for:
>> Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/
>> Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL
>> Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/
>> Shawano Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wishawan/
>> Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/
>> My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm
>>
>> Robin Helman wrote:
>> >
>> > It gives me both pleasure and sadness to make this announcement, but
>its
>> > gotta be done.
>> >
>> > First, it is my pleasure to introduce Vicki Wilson wisgenweb(a)aol.com as
>the
>> > new SC for the GREAT state of Wisconsin. Vicki has been my assistant SC
>and
>> > has done a fantastic job "foster parenting" our unadopted counties. I
>feel
>> > she will be a tremendous asset to the USGenWeb on a SC level.
>> >
>> > This announcement also brings a level of sadness to me, but other
>> > priorities are consuming most of my spare time and it was not fair to
>the
>> > project for me to continue as SC without the ability to give it my
>"all" I
>> > am not leaving the project entirely. I will retain my county pages and
>will
>> > stay on as an assistant to Vicki.
>> >
>> > Special thanks to all who were there for me as I kind of jumped in with
>> > both feet when the previous Wisconsin SC "disappeared" It has been a
>lot of
>> > fun and I look forward to a long long time with the project, just on a
>> > lower scale ;)
>> >
>> > Thanks again and welcome aboard Vicki!!!!!!!
>> >
>> > Robin
>>
>>
>> ==== WIGEN Mailing List ====
>> Please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ for all your mailing list
>needs.
>
>
>
According to Rootsweb mailing list - they have been having several problems
of late. They are hoping to have them all fixed before the end of the week.
Thanks,
Peggy Perry
pegmar(a)mhtc.net
Moderator for The Obituary Daily Times
the email newspaper of obituaries from around the world!
To subscribe: send a message to: GEN-OBIT-Request(a)apple.rootsweb.com
with the message: subscribe
WI GenWeb coordinator for Iowa County - visit us at:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiiowa
President - Iowa County Wisconsin Genealogical Society
http://www.friendsnfamily.net/wiiowagensoc/index.html
Co-Owner of the GENMSC mailing list.
To subscribe: send a message to: GENMSC-l-request(a)apple.rootsweb.com
with the message: subscribe
Anyone else having trouble accessing their GenWeb or Archive pages at
rootsweb?
Dale Ebersold
Vincennes, Indiana
http://www.abcs.com/ebersold
-------------------------------------------------------------
County Coordinator for the WIGenWeb Project:
Buffalo http://www.abcs.com/ebersold/buffalo
La Crosse http://www.rootsweb.com/~wilacros/lacrosse.html
Trempealeau http://www.rootsweb.com/~witrempe/trempindex.html
-------------------------------------------------------------
----------
> From: Marsha Wilcox <mwilcox(a)lnd.com>
> To: WIGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: Re: New Wisconsin SC
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 1998 12:35 PM
>
> Robin & Vickie,
>
> Robin, I'll be very sorry to see you go. You've been a pleasure to work
> with, enthusiastic and supportive. But, I understand.
>
> Vickie, Welcome! I'm sure you'll do a great job! You already have
> been... ;-)
>
> Happy Hunting!
> Marsha Wilcox
> mwilcox(a)lnd.com
> Wilcox Web Design -- http://www.usroots.com/~wwd/wwd.html
> USGenWeb County Coordinator for:
> Lake Co., IL -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~illake/
> Listowner for ILLAKE-L, tracing your roots in Lake Co., IL
> Oconto Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/
> Shawano Co., WI -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~wishawan/
> Home Page -- http://mall.lnd.com/wilcox/
> My Genealogy Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mawilcox/index.htm
>
> Robin Helman wrote:
> >
> > It gives me both pleasure and sadness to make this announcement, but
its
> > gotta be done.
> >
> > First, it is my pleasure to introduce Vicki Wilson wisgenweb(a)aol.com as
the
> > new SC for the GREAT state of Wisconsin. Vicki has been my assistant SC
and
> > has done a fantastic job "foster parenting" our unadopted counties. I
feel
> > she will be a tremendous asset to the USGenWeb on a SC level.
> >
> > This announcement also brings a level of sadness to me, but other
> > priorities are consuming most of my spare time and it was not fair to
the
> > project for me to continue as SC without the ability to give it my
"all" I
> > am not leaving the project entirely. I will retain my county pages and
will
> > stay on as an assistant to Vicki.
> >
> > Special thanks to all who were there for me as I kind of jumped in with
> > both feet when the previous Wisconsin SC "disappeared" It has been a
lot of
> > fun and I look forward to a long long time with the project, just on a
> > lower scale ;)
> >
> > Thanks again and welcome aboard Vicki!!!!!!!
> >
> > Robin
>
>
> ==== WIGEN Mailing List ====
> Please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ for all your mailing list
needs.
Thanks to Mary Beth Fay, I have added links to my Marathon County page to 1910
Census for the townships of Hamburg, Berlin, Kronenwetter, and Eau Pleine.
Mary Beth has undertaken this project because of her ties to Marathon County.
She is the owner of the census pages.
She eventually will have done the entire county - and will be working on the
twps of Texas, Maine, and Stettin and hopes to have them done by July.
<A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath/index.htm">Marathon County WIGenWeb
</A>
Shelley
Marathon County WI: http://www.rootsweb.com/~wimarath/
Lincoln County WI: http://www.rootsweb.com/wilincol/
Personal Web Page: http://members.aol.com/sdgreen715/index.html
Mailing Lists: Wimarath-l and Wilincol-l(a)rootsweb.com