http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2017/02/10/rare-civil-war-cyclorama-carries-milwaukee-signature/97698744/

Spent this afternoon going through Germany Church Parish records from 1840- 1852 in the former province of Pomerania. I believe I found a current clients Great-Great grandfather’s baptism and date of birth. Which also provides names on parents. Eyes tired but findings lead to new searches and more proof.

Also today met with another person who is going to use my services.

Good Genealogy Day.

thanks to Andrea Bentschneider for info. She is a friend in Hamburg, Germany who owns Beyond History.

http://www.stadtbuecher.de/about/http://www.stadtbuecher.de/about/

The necessity to provide research with a specialized research tool as well as an institutional and transnational research tool has not yet been taken into account. The “Index Librorum Civitatum” (ILC) is intended to help bridge the gap between archival materials, finding aids and literature / editions in a single online presentation. For the “five new” federal states, the ILC can already be used as a research and demonstration tool. The federal states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen will be developed for the database from 2016 to 2019. In addition, the city maps of the historical countries or provinces of Silesia, Brandenburg and Pomerania are included in a parallel research project.

I just finished the book, The Last of The Doughboys by Richard Rubin. The book is excellent to me. It informs the reader about WWI soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces who lived through the war and lived to be centenarians (those living to be 100 or more). 

The book is researched thoroughly, written at a great pace and keeps the reader interested, while providing moments of thought of what your own family members during​ 1914 to 1919 might have experienced.

As a Genealogists I think everyone interested in this subject area should read it. If so let me know what you think.

I just had a client who wanted me to locate his great-grandfather, pre-1907 certificate. During my search, I discovered that the record was a delayed birth certificate. Delayed being the important part.

What is a delayed birth certificate? A delayed birth? No

A delayed birth certificate is when home birth or more common, many people do not have a birth certificate. Or it was not a requirement of the state you might have lived in or born in. Many times 100 plus years ago midwives and Physicians who are supposed to file the certificate off and did not. Later, when a person needed proof of birth for a school or a job, they had to apply for a delayed birth certificate. Also a delayed birth certificate could have been during the time when people were applying for social security cards, during WWII and going into the armed services.

So I discovered that the person I was looking for had a DB series number or sometimes called a DS, delayed series number for a birth certificate. 

I did find and order the record from the WI Health Services, Vital Records. It was a birth in 1892, rural county and done in 1942. All this information on location of record source was needed to confirm birth date and also learn parents of birth subject. Client now has 2nd great-grandparent names. Success and learning too.

Were any of your ancestors at Camp MacArthur?

I learned a few years ago that two of my Great-Uncles, Theodore Rettammel and my paternal grandmother’s faternal twin brother, William Wendland both served with Company D, 128th Infantry, WI 32nd Division. They were part of Wisconsin National Guard unit out of Mauston, WI.

In a history of Waco, Texas, I discovered that a history of the Camp MacArthur they both were trained at before going overseas in 1918 was written by Amanda Sawyer.

Check out: http://wacohistory.org

Amanda Sawyer, “Camp MacArthur,” Waco History, accessed April 19, 2017, http://wacohistory.org/items/show/48

​http://www.racinelawyers.com/rcba-history.html

Research recognition and appreciation continues to be extended to Robert Rettammel, who was a senior intern at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1985-1986, the Racine County Historical Museum, the Court archives made available through the Clerk of Courts and the County Clerk, the files of the Racine Journal Times, the library at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, the Racine Public Library.

Was on the radio again this morning. 103.5 FM Sun Prairie. 

A colleague of mine and fellow genealogist in the area has her own radio program called Melodic Roulette. She brings her passion and family history for radio (grandfather) to audiences in the area, old time music 1930s to 1970s. She also has provided me an opportunity to talk about genealogy. We have done this a few times together and will continue once a month.

Follow us or listen and let us know what you think. Also ask us questions.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/great-war/