Smith Family in Milwaukee's Garden Cemetery Forest Home Cemetery map and guidebook Genealogy is an interesting journey. I think some of the most interesting parts of my journey have been when trying to pick up where previous generations have left off. In this case, I was picking up the trail left by my husband's grandmother, … Continue reading Forest Home Cemetery
Doily Collection This collection was made primarily by my husband's grandmother Gertrude Evelyn Ehle Witzel and her mother Gertrude Ethelyn Smith Ehle from the early 1900s to about the 1950s. A few were from my great grandmother Viola Pauline Widmann Weigel in the years after her marriage in 1933. We wanted to find a way … Continue reading Thursday Treasures
Ehle Family Tree Ehle Family Tree 1930 My husband's family line goes back into colonial New England on a few lines related to the Ehle family. His grandmother, Gertrude Evelyn Ehle, was born in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area in 1912. Her father was Charles Frederic Ehle. The Ehle family was proud of their heritage of … Continue reading Thursday Treasures
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
WitzEnd Family History 