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Sunday, March 29, 2026

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

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Germany is not shy with its raw opinions about America's political buffoons, tempered by advice for American resistance . Coverage of Ka...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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

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The good sisters would more likely have read the Catholic -leaning, Milwaukee Seebote , and NOT the more progressive Banner und Volksfreund ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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

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The name "Bridget" was used as a casual pejorative label for poor, or working, Irish women in the 19th c. Yet four (4) German-Amer...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

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

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Immigration. During the month of May, 2,661 immigrants arrived in Milwaukee, of whom 730 were Germans ... settling in Wisconsin. 626 Germa...
Sunday, March 1, 2026

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

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In 2025 some  Find-a-Grave hacks went on a rampage to attack my posting  of L OST burials at Holy Trinity Cemetery [Milwaukee, WI] - an hi...
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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

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“ 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 ...
Tuesday, August 5, 2025

A 'Deutsches Haus' in Milwaukee? Couldn't be built: the German 'community' was too divided.

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Could a "German Haus" ever be built in Milwaukee? An old question dating back to the 1930s .  You'd think that Goethe Ho...