The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, found in genealogy circles ...

In 2025 some Find-a-Grave hacks went on a rampage to attack my posting of LOST burials at Holy Trinity Cemetery [Milwaukee, WI] - an historic fact. I used alternative sources, and the complaint was that my sources do not mention the cemetery, and that these memorials would be changed to "burial unknown". But those whiners, with more ambition than reading skills, were wrong.

A mormon admin. demanded I reveal specific sources to them! Who does this kind of crap?

A new tack then followed, concerning my reference leads into Milwaukee's German newspapers: "Stop forcing volunteers to use your index at the library." was the admin rant. Those valuable leads don't make money for the mormon Ancestry retail site. Or maybe standard look-up requests from my index were refused by MPL? It's easy to request a look-up for a citation with a name and death date. 😏

One Find-a-Grave "karen" demanded I post clippings & citations at Ancestry for her to copy. 😂

My effort to post the bulk of lost records for Holy Trinity Cemetery - from its founding through 1909 - is largely complete. A malicious Find-a-Grave administrator vindictively terminated my access to my account there. 😇 That is likely the same person named "Graves R Us" making change requests & harassing messages, to remove my name in Memorial notes.

Milwaukee's "Banner und Volksfreund" might've asked the question: "How do you solve a problem like a Maga?"

The good sisters would more likely have read the Catholic-leaning, Milwaukee Seebote, and NOT the more progressive Banner und Volksfreund (Thomas Paine's writings were featured there), but it remains the same universal question:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-O7dPkA45c 

Milwaukee's German newspapers were a haven for Austrian immigrants after WWI ...

https://youtu.be/jV9mEkvJAbE?si=hh_u6L-oneXn0Y31

Sing along to the tune of beloved Edelweis:

Epstein files, Epstein files, please expose them completely.
Your denial's out of style, now you're coming off 'weakly'.
What's in them so heinous you can't show? Prove you're no transgressor.
Epstein files, Epstein files ... Yes! They'll haunt you forever.
 

The tragedy of washer-woman "Bridget" Daley was reported in the "Milwaukee Seebote", and the "Germania" ...

The name "Bridget" was used as a casual pejorative label for poor, or working, Irish women in the 19th c. Yet four (4) German-American papers carried this brief story to hi-lite the plight of Milwaukee's immigrant working poor.

I was relieved to find a matching church burial record for a Margaret Daley, but there is no civil death record, or coroner's report, or cemetery record, or similar story in the English language papers.

  Sudden Death. - Bridget Daly, a widow living at the corner of Jefferson and Chicago Streets, returned home Friday evening after spending the entire day doing laundry at the American House Hotel. She collapsed in the hallway and was found dead. A stroke caused her death. The deceased leaves behind five children, the youngest of whom is only three years old.  

Burial register of St. John Cathedral (Milwaukee, WI). 

June 1874. Margaret Daley. Died on the 5th of June 1874, Margaretta Daley, about 40 years old. 

Immigration statistics published in Milwaukee's German papers in 1874 ...

Immigration. During the month of May, 2,661 immigrants arrived in Milwaukee, of whom 730 were Germans ... settling in Wisconsin. 626 Germans ...  went to other states.

The DEATH by INTENTIONAL NEGLIGENCE of NURUL AMIN SHAH ALAM, would have been reported in Milwaukee's German newspapers.

Blind Refugee "Abandoned By Border Patrol" in Buffalo Dies in the Cold ... his family wasn't notified of his release, he was dropped off 5 miles from his home, he had a curtain rod to use as a walking stick.

The Shameful, Intentionally Negligent Treatment of NURUL AMIN SHAH ALAM, A Rohingya Refugee, Leading to his Death WOULD have been reported in Milwaukee's German newspapers. It's a story illustrating the takeover of the USA by repulsive christian nationalism.

These papers were sensitive to the problems of ALL emigrants & immigrants. I long-ago debunked the WASP mythology of these papers focused solely on celebrating local christian church communities and "obituaries".

Milwaukee's German newspapers were about local, national and world NEWS. The HORRORS of the emigrant / immigrant experience are also told, but missing from the old Milwaukee Journal & Milwaukee Sentinel.

The political assassination of Melissa Hortman, and murder of her husband, in their home, 16 Jun 2025.

What would you expect to find in Milwaukee's German newspapers after this horrific act by an avowed evangelical christian pastor ....

Besides the news stories about the horrific political assassination of Melissa Hortman and her husband by a deranged christian nationalist self-styled preacher, Milwaukee's German-American papers might have had multiple obituaries, repeated death notices (some maybe with pending info), followed by the funeral details, fraternal notices, reporting about the funeral & burial event. Then there might be family thanks, and even later, more notices of thanks from the family, and very possibly possibly death anniversary notices in following years.

If this had been the 1860s and 1870s, you might've found an edition with this horrible news about a beloved public figure lined with heavy black borders, running vertically between the entire length of each column, as the newspaper draped itself in mourning.

Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, were also shot in their home in a related attack, but survived.