The Good, the Bad, and the really Ugly, found in the genealogy community ...

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 these whiners, with more blind ambition than research skills, were wrong.

A mormon admin. demanded I reveal specific sources to them! Who does this kind of crap, except ignorant church-ladies?

A new tack then followed, concerning my valuable reference leads into Milwaukee's German newspapers: "Stop forcing volunteers to use your index at the library." was the freakish rant. Those references don't make money for the mormon retail empire. 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. 😇 The "Graves R Us" volunteer freak there is making change requests & sending harassing messages, to remove my name in Memorial notes. You know what they say about shaking the tree and all the fruits and nuts fall out. 😂

Lincoln todt! 16 April 1865 ... newspaper 'draped' in black!

  President Abr. Lincoln ermordet! 

 

 

Upon the news of world or nationally renowned leaders with shocking deaths, Milwaukee's 19th c. German-American papers would be 'draped' - their columns lined - in black.

This might even have been done with the recent murders of US citizens by today's fascist political regime.

 

Germans have an opinion about America's political buffoons, and advice for American resistance!

Germany is not shy with its raw opinions about America's political buffoons, tempered by advice for American resistance. Coverage of Karneval, c. 2018, would've been available to American media.

 

 

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 

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 murders of Renee Good, Alex Pretti & Nurul Amin Shah Alam would have been reported in Milwaukee's German Newspapers ...

“That's fine dude, I'm not mad at you.”  Were the final words of Renee Nicole Good, mother of 3, before she was murdered, shot in the face, by a government employee of the USA.

Her murderer spoke a benediction after shooting her in the face: "F...ing b^tch" 

The 'rump Administration's ICE freak was not harmed, injured, or inconvenienced, after committing Renee's murder.

 

 

 

“Are you okay?” were Alex's final words to a woman he was protecting who had been pushed down. He was also tear-gassed, shoved down, and then bullets were pumped into him.

The 'rump Administration's ICE freaks were not harmed, injured, or inconvenienced, after murdering Alex Pretti.

The 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 nationalists, a repeat of the "Know Nothings" of the 19th c.

These papers were sensitive to the problems of ALL emigrants & immigrants. I long-ago debunked the WASP mythology focused solely on celebrating 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.