Could a "German Haus" have ever be built in Milwaukee? A question dating back to the 1930s.
For one thing, the Lutherans wouldn't have tolerated it.
You'd think that Goethe House Wisconsin's 30 years of residency at the Milwaukee Public Library was a logical answer to this question. But that residency never produced a single project or event, not a pamphlet, not a poster, celebrating Milwaukee's huge, diverse, German immigrant working-class community.
Nothing was EVER done in conjunction with the Milwaukee Public Library, nor with the Milwaukee County Genealogical or Historical Societies, nor with any of the then-fading German cultural groups of Milwaukee. To this day there is no "German Research Group" linked with the MCGS.
That was the state of any "German" information I found in Milwaukee in the early 2000s.
My 100% German immigrant tree was NOT found in the English language papers prior to WWI, so I made a deep dive into 2 German-American microfilm archives and I found them there.
