Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 4 This is the fourth in a a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. Using some techniques for evaluating indirect and negative evidence, I was finally able to break through a 20+ year old brick wall in … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
In Justice Court Walter Widmann and Nick Grosbier, both of Marshfield, this morning plead guilty before Justice George C Jacobson to "shining deer" in the town of Rock Saturday and had sentence postponed until Thursday. They were arrested by Conservation Warden Vince Skilling. 1942, unknown publication
Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 3 This is the third in a a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. Using some techniques for evaluating indirect and negative evidence, I was finally able to break through a 20+ year old brick wall in … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 2 This is the second in a a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. Using some techniques for evaluating indirect and negative evidence, I was finally able to break through a 20+ year old brick wall in … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
Finding the Family of Libby Sharp Part 1 This is a series of blog posts based on a presentation I did for my local genealogy group in 2018. After 20 years of searching for this family (and many years by others before me), I ran across a podcast on Ancestral Findings discussing the use of … Continue reading Breaking Through a Brick Wall
The Voyage Passenger List for the SS Elbe arriving in New York 22 September 1883 On 7 September 1883, the S.S.Elbe left the harbor of Bremen sailing for America. Anna Ertl Bohman, her brother Joseph, her mother Dorothea Masanetz Ertl, and her four small children (Anna, Margaret, George, and Maria) were aboard the steamship. Anna … Continue reading Stories from Squaw Creek Homestead
Gladys Jentz Gladys Mary Jentz was the seventh of ten children of John Jentz and Caroline Reisig. Gladys was born in Fennimore, Grant County, Wisconsin, on 21 January 1904. Her baptism and birth are recorded at St. Peter's Church. Gladys was the younger sister of Anna K. Jentz (known as Lula) who was the mother … Continue reading Saturday Mourning
WitzEnd Family History 