One more brick wall.....DOWN!!!!!!

[fudge stripe cookays]

I have been beating my head against a brick wall trying to find this family.

Gaylord, the man I went looking for on my last trip to Madison (and spent hours poring over an entire year of 1936 Milwaukee death notices) was found.

My newest problem was finding his widow and daughters. They had married sometime after 1937, and I had no idea of their whereabouts. OTher than sitting with months and months and months worth of Milwaukee microfilm once again, I had no other solution. Another cousin from that branch told me one last name she thought might be one of the married names, but had no first name. And she remembered another husband's FIRST name, but no last name.

The cemetery where he is buried would have been a great place to look for the widow and her dates so I could get another obituary, and daughters' married names from it, but he is buried at Evergreen Cemetery (in a crappy area of Milwaukee, even if I wanted to walk it), which is now famous for its mismanagement, disorganization, mislocated bodies, and shitty records. A phone call to the answering machine of the newly renamed cemetery has gone unanswered for weeks.

Well, wonder of wonders, they found ME! I posted an obituary for their grandfather on the Rock County, Wisconsin Website, and New Year's Day, I got an e-mail from one of their daughters-in-law, asking me about it, and asking me if I was related.

WOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

This is proof of the adage that the more you share, the more you get back! Hopefully more pictures and data will follow to round out this part of the family in the manuscript.

:D
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[sybylla]

1. Yea!

Congrats, FSC! How wonderful for you. Your family book will soon be as thick as a bible.

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. Whaddya mean WILL be?

I go through printer cartridges the way other people go through socks! :crazy:

Fortunately, reprehensor got us a cartridge refull kit. That sucker has saved us a couple hundred bucks!

fsc