WHAT'S NEW
In order to maintain a "fresh" web site and showcase additional historical resources, this site will contain permanent and rotating web pages. The webmaster will add/delete the rotating web pages on an approximately monthly basis. To see a page that may have been deleted, please contact the webmaster (Kevin Neuberger) at:
kanubrgr@charter.net
The following changes have been made to the site since its initial creation in December, 2002. Each note describes the change made to particular pages and/or pages which have been added or deleted. The pathway to said page is indicated in parenthesis.
6 Feb 2005: Added the following items:
Excel spreadsheet containing complete
individual household information for the 1880 federal agricultural census (Main/Gov't
Records/Ag. Census/1880 Ag. Census)
Story on the 1909 fire that destroyed a large
portion of the main business district in Reeseville (Main/Newspaper Items/1909
Fire)
Real estate title abstract information for the Southeast 1/4 of Section 1, Town of Portland (Main/Gov't
Records/Title Abstracts/Tn Portland SE Sect 1)
Marriages for 1873 and 1874 for Trinity Lutheran
church. (Main/Church Records/Trinity Marriages)
4 Apr 2004: Added the following items:
Confirmation records 1865 to 1885 for the Second Reformed Church
(Main/Church Records/2nd Ref. Confirmations)
Baptism records 1869 to 1887 for the Second Reformed Church (Main/Church
records/2nd Ref. Bapt. I and 2nd Ref. Bapt. II)
Marriages for 1872 for Trinity Lutheran
church. (Main/Church Records/Trinity Marriages)
Real estate title abstract information for the Southwest 1/4 of Section 1, Town of Portland (Main/Gov't
Records/Title Abstracts/Tn Portland SW Sect 1)
Obituaries for Eugenia Kuntz Etscheid and Elizabeth Weihert Soldner (Main/Obituaries)
15 Feb 2004: Added the following items:
Added "screen tip, pop ups" to the 1873 plat map of Reeseville to indicate lot owners and property valuations in 1880. Screen tip pop ups will appear when the cursor is placed on a particular lot. (Main/Maps/Reeseville1873)
Kohn family story (Main/Family Group Sheets/Kohn Family Story)
Marriages for 1868 to 1871 for Trinity Lutheran church. (Main/Church Records/Trinity Marriages)
Obituaries for John W. Goebel, Anna Sophia Miller, George Leonard Neuberger, John William Ruedig, Philip Runkel, Adam Schaller, John Schultz, Christian Steinacker, Marie Margarethe Soldner, Edward Wobig, Henry Yerges sr. (Main/Obituaries)
7 Feb 2004: Added the following items:
Roster of new members for Trinity Lutheran
Church (extracted from the congregation's minute books) (Main/Church
Records/Trinity Luth. New Members)
Roster of released members for Trinity Lutheran Church (extracted from the
congregational minute books (Main/Church Records/Trinity Luth. Releases)
Pages on building history from the Reeseville Review for 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1900 (Main/Newspaper Items/1895 Bldg. History or 1896 Bldg. History or 1897 Bldg. History or 1898 Bldg. History or 1900 Bldg. History)
1880 tax roll (real estate) for Town of Portland--sections 1, 2, 3, 10 (Main/Gov't Records/Tn. Portland 1880 Tax)
Baptisms for Trinity Lutheran Church, 1866 (Main/Church Records/Trinity Lutheran Baptisms)
John L. Schaller added to Civil War veterans list. Also added 1883 government pensioner list. Also added 1890 GAR officer list. (Main/Gov't Records/Civil War veterans)
Additional information to the 1890 Federal
veterans census--page 2 of the Town of Lowell (Main/Gov't Records/1890 veterans census)
Added Altenteil pages for Otto Klug and Charles Yerges. (Main/Gov't
Records/Altenteil/Klug, Otto or Yerges, Charles)
Dodge County Pioneer Club--list of Town of Lowell residents prior to 1850 (Main/Newspapers/Pioneer Club)
1880 railroad employees living in Reeseville (Main/Gov't Records/1880 Population Census--click on the link in the page)
Page regarding corn production for 1860: (Main/Gov't Records/Ag Census/Corn 1860)
Pages regarding horse and cattle numbers for 1870: (Main/Gov't Records/Ag Census/Horses 1870 or Cattle 1870)
19 Jan 2004: Added the following items:
1890 Federal veterans census (Main/Gov't Records/1890 veterans census)
Baptisms for Trinity Lutheran Church, 1859 to 1865. (Main/Church Records/Trinity Lutheran Baptisms)
Pages concerning swine and sheep numbers for 1860. (Main/Gov't Records/Ag Census/Swine 1860 or Sheep 1860)
Pages on building history taken from the Reeseville Review for 1892, 1893 and 1894. (Main/Newspaper Items/1892 or 1893 or 1894 Bldg. History)
11 Jan 2004: Added the following items:
Pages concerning rye, honey and wine production
for 1880 (Main/Gov't Records/Ag Census/rye1880 or honey1880 or wine1880)
Page containing information on cattle numbers for 1860. (Main/Gov't
Records/Ag Census/Cattle 1860)
9 Jan 2004: Added the following items:
Goebel School--teachers, 1900 school census, 1910 school census (Main/Gov't Records/School districts/Goebel school)
Added Johann Wolfgram family information to the
emigrant ships page--bark, Johannes. (Main/Family Group Sheets/Emigrant Ships)
Added the ship, Walhame, to the emigrant ships page. (Main/Family Group
Sheets/Emigrant Ships)
Rhenish Prussian emigration dates. (Main/Family Group Sheets/Rhenish Prussian emigration dates)
1921 List of Residents page and Town of Portland page for said list. (Main/Published Sources/1921 List of Residents/Town of Portland)
Added C.H. Klug and George Leonhard Neuberger family group sheets. (Main/Family Group Sheets/CH Klug and Main/Family Group Sheets/Geo L Neuberger)
Added information for years 1874 to 1877 for
Trinity Lutheran death records. (Main/Church Records/Trinity Lutheran Deaths)
Marriage records for Trinity Lutheran Church, 1860 to 1868. (Main/Church
Records/Trinity Lutheran Marriages)
27 July 2003: Added the following items:
Marriage records filed with the State of Wisconsin for the period, 1848 to 1865 (Main/Gov't Records/State Marriage Records)
Census listings for the Village of Reeseville
found in the 1885 state population census (Main/Gov't Records/1885 State Pop
Census)
Added emigrant ship information for the ships, Zurich and May Queen.
(Main/Family Group Sheets/Emigrant Ships)
Excerpt from the handwritten account of the Jung (Young) family and their early years in the Town of Portland. (Main/Family Group Sheets/Jung Family History)
23 July 2003: Added the following
pages:
Altenteil pages for John Bickel, Philip Bickel, Meinhard Haseleu and Anton
Nagler (Main/Gov't Records/Altenteil)
Probate inventories for G.M. Knarr, Gottlieb Wolter, John Kohn, Charles Wille
and Daniel Bruecher (Main/Gov't Records/Probate Inventories)
Added entries for the 1860 population census listings for the Town of Lowell
(Main/Gov't Records/1860 Pop Census SEE Tn. Lowell (3) and Tn.
Lowell (4) and Tn. Lowell (5)
6 July 2003: Added the following
pages:
1860 Population Census listings for the Town of Lowell (Main/Gov't Records/1860 Pop
Census/ SEE Tn. Lowell, Tn. Lowell (2) and Tn. Lowell (3)
Probate inventory for Michael Gallitz (Main/Gov't Records/Probate
Inventories/Michael Gallitz)
Probate inventory for Anton Yauman (Main/Gov't Records/Probate Inventories/Anton
Yauman)
Probate inventory for William Reinhard (Main/Gov't Records/Probate Inventories/Wiliam
Reinhard)
Probate inventory for James Griffin (Main/Gov't Records/Probate
Inventories/James Griffin)
Probate inventory for Philip Breucher (Main/Gov't Records/Probate
Inventories/Philip Breucher)
Modified the Guess the Picture page by deleting the Gustav Gallitz and Kuntz
family farm pictures. (Main/Guess the Picture)
Added a photo gallery for farmsteads at Reeseville. (Main/Farmstead Photos)
29 June 2003: Added the following
pages:
1870 Population Census listings for the Town of Elba (Main/Gov't Records/1870 Pop
Census)
1880 Population Census listings for the Village of Reeseville (Main/Gov't
Records/1880 Pop Census)
Family group page for Johann Wilhelm Etscheid = Albertine Velten family.
(Main/Family Group Sheets/Johann Wilhelm Etscheid)
Page listing known emigrant ships for German settlers in Reeseville. See
the Family Group Sheets page and click on the link to the emigrant ship page.
Page listing known villages of origin for German settlers in Reeseville.
See the Family Group Sheets page and click on the link to the emigrant ship
page. Not a complete listing of villages--more will be added at a later
date.
Due to server related issues, deleted the page that allowed a person to search the site
for information and also deleted the pages which allowed for queries to be asked
and posted. Hopefully, with an upgrade to the server on which this site
resides, these pages will be able to be added back to the site.
1 June 2003: Added the following pages:
1860 Population Census listings for the Town of Portland (Main/Gov't Records/1860 Pop
Census)
Information from the 1925 Dodge County Farm Directory. (Main/Published
Sources/1925 Farm Directory/Town of Lowell) and (Main/Published Sources/1925 Farm
Directory/Town of Portland)
Lakeside School District (Main/Gov't Records/School Districts/Lakeside)
14 May 2003: Added the following pages:
Additional information for deaths, 1870 to 1874, for Trinity Lutheran Church.
(Main/Church Records/Trinity Lutheran Deaths)
Family group page for Johann Kohn and Maria Margarethe Schulein (Main/Family
Groups Sheets/Johann Kohn)
Family group page for Henry Lau and Caroline
Kohn (Main/Family Group Sheets/Henry Lau)
Village of Reeseville justice of the peace records 1911 to 1914 (Main/Gov't
Records/Justice Of Peace Records)
Elba Mutual Insurance Company insurance claims (Main/Company Records/Elba Mutual
Insurance)
Reeseville railroad statistics--graphs and database of numbers of passengers to
and from Reeseville for period, 1866 to 1878 (Main/Graphs/Railroad
Passengers)
Map showing the settlement pattern of German regional groups at Reeseville
(Main/Maps/German Groups)
12 April 2003: Added the following pages:
Family Group Sheet main page (Main/Family Group Sheets)
Family group page for Johann Wilhelm Goebel and Anna Sophia Kleinmann
(Main/Family Group Sheets/Johann Goebel)
Probate inventories for Carl Kohls, William Christian Kohn, John Schoen, George
Soldner sr., and Michael Friedrich Steindorf (Main/Gov't Records/Probate
Inventories)
6 April 2003: Added additional
names to the list of Civil War veterans from the Reeseville-Lowell area (Main/Govt
Records/Civil War veterans)
Added the following pages:
Probate inventories for Matthew Gallitz and John Connolly (Main/Gov't
Records/Probate Inventories)
22 March 2003: Added the the following pages:
Village of Reeseville 1880 tax valuation page (Main/Govt Records/Reeseville 1880 tax)
Death records for Trinity Lutheran Church (Main/Church Records/Trinity Lutheran Deaths)
16 March 2003: Added the following
pages:
"What's New?" (Main/What's New)
"Guess the Picture" (Main/Guess the Picture)
"Answers to 'Guess the Picture'
" (Main/Guess the Picture/Answers to Guess the Picture)