No Rest for the Wicked…
Posted By the Webmistress on March 16, 2006
Well, cousins, spring is upon us and I actually saw the first fat robin 3 weeks ago. Work continues behind the scenes on both direct and collateral lines. The second week of this month I spent an entire day cleaning up stray import source notes…5000+ of those little buggers were annihilated in one sitting. I finally finished standardizing the place names made easy by TNG through an administrative “merge” function. Whew.
Rollie is back from his spring break in Texas and is resting from his vacation, but he still found time to email on return and ask if it might be a good idea to browse news articles and obituaries for a lead on his aunt Maria’s date and place of death. Which reminds me, I have been meaning to get a “Most Wanted” page built for our brick walls ie; those indivduals who seemingly dropped off the face of the earth, or into it, as the case may be. I finally got the Adopt a POW page created.
So…I got to thinking about what Rollie said about newspapers, and I spent a few evenings this week browsing articles from the Sheboyan Press. It took hours to make my way through 20 years of scanned images, but I found my great-grandpa Albert’s obituary, the auction ad for the sale of his farm by his widow 3 years later, and the wedding article for her second marriage.
While going through the individual entries, a clear pattern emerged. 95% of the news articles linked to the search term “Richart” were linked to the social life of my grandpa’s cousin’s wife, Mrs. Anton Richart of Elkhart Lake in Sheboygan county, Wisconsin.
I struggled not to dislike this woman after waiting for images to load only to find blurbs of who-visited-who for the weekend. I try to see the good side of it, but somehow, I still feel if there had been soap operas during her era, my research would go so much faster!.
Rollie sent more dates with expressed wishes that something will turn up but I’m certain if there as a funeral in the family during her marriage, rest assured MRS. ANTON RICHART will have made sure we know of it. If you don’t believe me, here’s the proof:
There are now 6806 souls in the database with hundreds more waiting in the wings. Click on my GoogleAds and it generates spare change to support this site.
Welcome new users: Carol Sweere, Catherine Sweere, Jeff Sweere, Kevin Sweere, Jim Sweere and two Dykhoff descendants from Lakota, ND: Cindy Falk Larsen and Connie Falk Rose, who have generously volunteered to work on the data entry tasks of their line.
Thank you Cindy and Connie!
Happy Birthday, Sonny, Heather and Peggy.
ex animo ~J
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