Many of my ancestors settled in a small Central Wisconsin area by late 1880s. In those rural areas there are Atlas and Farm Directories for WI Counties, that include Township Plats with information on property owner, married spouse first name, children first name, section number, acres and years lived on location.

I was able to find in Juneau County, my relatives, neighbors and also learn new information that has helped to explain whom my paternal grandmother’s sister married after her first husband died and leaves her with two children and the farm. A neighboring property had a name that correlated with previous information on her second married surname. The man she later married was her neighbor who had a farm next to hers.

Love solving mysteries and gathering Genealogy Proof to support research and previous findings.

The Library of Congress has online collection that includes the complete seventy-one-week run of The Stars and Stripes World War I edition. The Stars and Stripes was published in France by the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) of the United States Army from February 8, 1918, to June 13, 1919.

Link: About Stars and Stripes Collection

Today at the Dane County Area Genealogical Society Program we had 47 participants come to our program that featured a Genealogy Reference Librarian at Wisconsin Historical Society. We learned about using Badgerlink.net, to help find digital links to Search Historical Newspapers across all States.

Also on the Wisconsin Historical Society website you can find “Guide to Wisconsin Newspapers 1833-2004” revised by Jim Hansen in 2017. There is a PDF version that is a great resource for learning about all known Newspapers in most communities in Wisconsin, even small towns, other language papers printed in the past by immigrant groups living in Wisconsin. There is much to learn by seeking and review of print paper in the past-many now digitized.

Library of Congress: Chronicling America

Fulton History: New York State

Recently doing research in Draper Papers Collection, at my local Archive, Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS).
Successfully found the document for client and viewed the original paper section at the Archives.

Here is a link to who Draper was and the importance of this collection for early American research that pertains to Revolutionary time and early Republic period.

Draper Collection Papers: https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS4103

Do you ever get mixed-up when you assess how you are related to your various generation level ancestors? Or when assessing results of DNA percentages for relationship to cousins, or various possible match cousins listed at Ancestry DNA, Family Search DNA results? Your not alone many of us can still be confused when explaining cousin-level relations.

Here is a link to an article that you can use from Genealogy.com that helps to explain 1st cousin once removed and many other relation levels for Self. I find it useful.

Hope it helps: Genealogy.com Article Understanding Cousin Levels to aid Research

Soon Ancestry will add to their research database sources: Wisconsin State Censuses, 1855-1875, and 1885.

Sometime in Early 2018 is what they say.
Adding three additional censuses to the collection which already has 1895 and 1905.

Link to 1895 and 1905

Spent some of day looking at one my clients Irish ancestors. A good source for review is the following:

Genealogy National Archives of Ireland/

Remember to complete your US side before jumping the pond.

1848 The California Gold Rush begins

James W. Marshall had found gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California.

Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park

Source: Wikipedia, January 24, 2018 retrieved

My Uncle’s Arthur and Arnold Rettammel were at these camps in 1941 for training before being sent for over 3 yrs to fight in the South Pacific against Japan in WW II.

Camp Livingston in Louisiana

Camp Beauregard in Louisiana

One of my new clients is a member of D.A.R. or Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage society dedicated to historic preservation, education and patriotism.

Here is more about the Society and what they offer for those interested in Genealogy: dar.org/national-society/genealogy