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Basic Services

Basic genealogy lookups are lookups where you know a family name and a date or two and want lookups done in specific media, but do not need any formal reporting or analysis done. We can provide lookups from specific media or resources. (newspapers, census, birth or death indexes, etc.)

If you are just starting your genealogy research, and know the approximate area a person resided, we can do a basic search and provide you you with a list of names and information in that given area from Censuses, and WI Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, etc. All the results will contain your surname. We cannot guaranty all of the names returned will be related to you. Charges still apply if no positive results are found. After receiving this report you can followup further on the names or we can perform further research for you.

Census:
  • US Federal Census Lookups (any state) (1770-1930)
  • Wisconsin State Census Index 1820-1890 (gives head of household only)
Family
  • Pre-1907 Birth, Death, Marriage Certificate Index Lookups
  • Social Security Death Index Lookups (SSDI)
  • Limited Obituaries
  • Cemetery resources (not yet transcribed and online at www.linkstothepast.com)
  • Limited Church Records
Newspaper Archives
  • Daily Freeman Waukesha 1883 and 1890
  • Waukesha Daily Freeman 1882, 1937, and 1945-55
  • Waukesha Freeman-1846, 1859, 1868, 1882-83, 1917, and 1944-45
  • Waukesha Plain Dealer 1865-73
  • Milwaukie Commercial Herald 1843-45
  • Manitowoc Herald Times (some months 1960-70s)
  • Plus many others.
Immigration Some of these results return complete manifests and ship photographs
  • New York Passenger Lists
  • Passenger & Immigration Lists Index 1500-1900s
  • Boston Passenger Lists 1820-1943
  • Philadelphia Passenger Lists 1883-1945
  • New York, 1829-1859 Passenger and Immigration Lists
  • Other Various Immigration and Passenger Data
Military
  • Civil War Rosters
  • World War I Draft Registration Lookups
  • World War II Army Enlistment Records
  • World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1946
  • Other Various Military Data

We have a subscription to Ancestry.com and can do name and index lookups for anything they have in the US Membership: US Federal Census Records, US Immigration Records, Social Security Death Index, Newspaper Archives, Family Trees. We can also do quick lookups in local Waukesha and Milwaukee newspapers if we are out and doing research for another client.