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

Recently a cluster of genealogy hacks went on the attack for my posting many of Holy Trinity Cemetery's lost burial records at Find-a-Grave. They complained to Find-a-Grave that my sources do not mention the cemetery. Admin. threats followed that these memorials would be changed to "burial unknown". But those whiners, who have more ambition than smarts, were wrong! 😄

Then an Admin. demanded I reveal specific sources used for my transcription of church registers specifying the cemetery. Imagine an LDS / FHL employee NOT knowing the source of church records? 😌

Then followed a new tack concerning my helpful research leads into Milwaukee's German newspapers: "Stop forcing volunteers to use your index at the library." Those valuable leads don't satisfy today's demand for instant gratification taught by the Ancestry retail site. Or maybe standard look-up requests as a library service by MPL were refused, or lacking, or both? It's easy to request a look-up in a specific resource when a name and death date are supplied. 😏

One volunteer demanded I post clippings & citations at Ancestry for her to copy. 😂

Not only do these people lack research skills, but they've also proved to be especially malicious and vindictive. My effort to post the bulk of lost records for Holy Trinity Cemetery - from its founding through 1909 - is largely complete. That was accomplished just in time before Find-a-Grave vindictively terminated my access to my account there. 😇