From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jan 9 12:48:50 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k09JmoSK018818; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:48:50 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k09JmnFw027997 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:48:49 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k09HM7FI014945 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:22:07 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k09HM7pC014944 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:22:07 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k09HJJFI014881 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:19:19 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k09JjpwY016825 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:45:51 -0700 X-Envelope-From: mamclimans@whs.wisc.edu Mon Jan 9 12:45:50 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.16.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k09JjoSK016816 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:45:50 -0700 Received: from WHS.WISC.EDU (whs.wisc.edu [144.92.129.136]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k09Jjngp026196 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:45:49 -0700 Received: from shsw-MTA by WHS.WISC.EDU with Novell_GroupWise; Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:45:40 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 13:45:18 -0600 From: "Melissa McLimans" To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.16.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] New Online Tools from Wisconsin Historical Society The Wisconsin Historical Society is very proud to announce the Dictionary of Wisconsin History (http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/). The online dictionary gives more than 2,000 brief lives of famous Wisconsin people (and many not-so-famous ones). It provides the exact location of every community and civil township in the state, and explains how every county and 800 cities and towns got their names. You can even display a map or satellite image of any city, town, or village with a single click. The dictionary includes mid-19th century descriptions of about 500 Wisconsin cities and towns from contemporary gazetteers and travel guides, too. You can imagine how this could help your genealogical research or just give you some interesting facts about Wisconsin history. We also encourage you to submit entries to help us grow the dictionary. The Society has also been busy adding 3,500 entries to the Wisconsin Name Index (www.wisconsinhistory.org/wni). For those of you unfamiliar with the name index, it was started about 1870, when WHS staff made a catalog card for every biographical sketch in each new Wisconsin county history. They made a similar card for every obituary added to the scrapbooks they called the "Wisconsin Necrology," and frequently added cards for magazine and newspaper articles about Wisconsin residents. After more than a century of such work, the data on the original cards was typed into a database that you can search online today. This time we have indexed Wisconsin World War Obituaries, a three volume scrapbook, containing newspaper articles and obituaries about the men and women of Wisconsin that served in the military during World War II. The index is available for you to find listings of your ancestors at your local library, through library loan or you can order copies from our Wisconsin Genealogical Research Service (www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/ogrs). Please forgive the length of this post. I hope you have found it useful. Best, Melissa