I started family research with a 1970s grade school report, then serious research in the 1990s in all the usual places, in MANY local collections and online.

I'm a 7th generation descendant Milwaukeean of 100% German working-class immigrants, all arriving in chain or caravan migration from 1842-1881. In 2007, being stymied by a HUGE gap in ALL Milwaukee area collections, I vetted an original idea for a German-American resource among them before creating "Milwaukee's German Newspapers; an index of death notices and related items" (1844-1950). In exchange for legal "Deed of Gift" protection, the work was cataloged and shelved at my public library. A computer database was refused as an option, so printed updates were added to binders, as I had promised, from 2008 until 2012.

Sadly, it was the resentment of library staff (professionals & retirees), genealogy ladies, and local history "experts", that fueled an open antagonism by the Milwaukee Public Library toward my work they had first welcomed. So I ended my updates there in 2012, yet still continued to make additions and edits since the 'troubles' fomented.

Since 2022, I'm devoted to cleaning up the crappy online research of relatives and extended family; Find-A-Grave, with its link to the online Boomer games called 'Ancestry', and 'FamilyHistory', and now 'Geneanet', is helpful in accomplishing that important goal.
It's all about accurate research, right?
Gary R. Rebholz
Milwaukee, WI USA

I started family research with a 1970s grade school report, then serious research in the 1990s in all the usual places, in MANY local collections and online.

I'm a 7th generation descendant Milwaukeean of 100% German working-class immigrants, all arriving in chain or caravan migration from 1842-1881. In 2007, being stymied by a HUGE gap in ALL Milwaukee area collections, I vetted an original idea for a German-American resource among them before creating "Milwaukee's German Newspapers; an index of death notices and related items" (1844-1950). In exchange for legal "Deed of Gift" protection, the work was cataloged and shelved at my public library. A computer database was refused as an option, so printed updates were added to binders, as I had promised, from 2008 until 2012.

Sadly, it was the resentment of library staff (professionals & retirees), genealogy ladies, and local history "experts", that fueled an open antagonism by the Milwaukee Public Library toward my work they had first welcomed. So I ended my updates there in 2012, yet still continued to make additions and edits since the 'troubles' fomented.

Since 2022, I'm devoted to cleaning up the crappy online research of relatives and extended family; Find-A-Grave, with its link to the online Boomer games called 'Ancestry', and 'FamilyHistory', and now 'Geneanet', is helpful in accomplishing that important goal.
It's all about accurate research, right?
Gary R. Rebholz
Milwaukee, WI USA