Door County Genealogy and Family History

Door County Genealogy and Family History Group dedicated to the discussion and preservation of family history. But, discussion from all areas of the world is MORE than welcome!

Primarily for histories of families with ties to Door County, Wisconsin and surrounding areas. We are also in contact with other local genealogical societies so we can help you find information from a varying amount of sources!

02/28/2015

Hey folks! We haven't been very active here lately.... So let's chat! What are everyone's current surnames they are researching? List of mine :
Bridenhagen
Koehler
Knudson
Sohns
Franke
Reinhardt
Runkel
Copley
Kuhn
Among many others!

03/29/2013

While laid up with a knee injury.... scouring the Door County newspaper archives online! I have found a TON of info on my COPLEY family to add to my tree today! What an amazing resource!!!!

03/29/2013

Welcome to all of our new members in the last week or two! Although we are called "Door County Genealogy and Family History" remember we all have roots going somewhere else! :-) So, no need to worry about discussing other genealogy subjects! Many of us have lots of genealogy research experience and would love to help you... or at least help you find the help! LOL Be on the look out for some really fun and informative new content to be added here in the coming weeks and months! And remember to share us with your friends!!!

03/26/2013

Anyone in the Sturgeon Bay area tomorrow morning there is a "Wisdom Wednesday" at the YMCA titled "Learn More About Genealogy" Starts at 9:50 A.M. I will be there! ~Nikkie

This is HUGE!!! Search online Door County newspapers!!! 1862-1925. I entered my maiden name and found TONS of referen...
03/24/2013

This is HUGE!!! Search online Door County newspapers!!! 1862-1925. I entered my maiden name and found TONS of references in the local papers! What a great resource our library has brought us!!! http://doorcountynewspapers.org/

01/25/2013

Is anyone actively researching right now? My tree is on hold until we move. But would be interested to hear how many of you are actually researching right now, or how many are interested in learning where to get started!

12/29/2012

Let's get this page up and active! Anyone currently researching? I have been working on my Bridenhagen side along with helping some friends with their starting their trees. Or is anyone HOPING to learn more about their family history in 2013? The greatest thing about avid genealogy researches is we're always willing to help!!!

04/04/2012

If you are searching for your ancestors in the 1940 census, be sure to go to this website. If you have their 1930 census record, you can enter in the enumeration district (found in the top right corner of record... usually looks like 10-17 or 99-56 for examples) and the website will bring you to the same district in the 1940 census to search for them!!!! :-)

11/03/2011

Anyone interested in getting together to help eachother with genealogy research over the winter? Leave me a message here! I am thinking maybe a night a month at the Sturgeon Bay Library would be great since they have an ancestry.com membership and all the information in the history room! Let me know and we can set up and time with the library to reserve a place!!

11/03/2011

Here is what was discussed earlier on the discussion boards!

Door County Genealogy and Family History
Please post what family names you either already are researching or WILL be researching. We can help eachother out!

My research names are:
Bridenhagen
Howard (not from Door County)
Koehler
Knudson
Sohns
Copley
Kuhn
Reinhardt (various spellings)

about 6 months ago · Delete Post.Ruth Hannon Oneson
Oneson (Aanesen)
about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Julie Diltz
Humke...my grandfather's cousin was Doc Humke the local vet...would love to know more about him...also have always heard we are related to Logerquists but don't know how...

about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Lola Twaites
I am not from your area but I really don't know how my great grandparents came over from England in the mid-1800s... whether through the great lakes or on the east coast... I am more or less just getting started with my geneology... so here is the name I am looking for:

Twaites
Thwaites

The name was spelled: Thwaites in England, and I am not sure if it could be spelled any other ways but I have seen names that I have wondered about:

Twaite, Twait, Wait
about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Susan E. Hardin
Lewis (or Louis) Rohde (or Rody, rodie, etc.) and wife Ingeborg. Census records for 1910 showed them listed in Black Brook, Polk county but they may have lived elsewhere when they arrived from Norway in 1897. Wife (my grandmother) Ingeborg had used "Gerald" as father's name, but not sure if that was maiden name or not, or if correct spelling. Lewis Rohde died in July 1917 from lightning near Black Brook, Wisc. but I couldnt find any record of death on Ancestry site. Ingeborg and children later moved to Ludington, Mich.

about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Susan E. Hardin
Lola, I came across names Tweite and Tveite on a Norwegian heritage site so they could also have come from Norway, by ship from there or England to New York and then canals and lakes to destination.
about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Door County Genealogy and Family History
Julie... check this website out. http://www.allanwessel.info/AllFamilyHTML/n_ad.html
Scroll down a little more than half way. His obituary is listed there!!!
about 6 months ago · Delete Post.Julie Diltz
Great Info Nikkie....wow...thank you so much!

about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Door County Genealogy and Family History
:-) Glad I found something that fast! I love this stuff!!!!

about 6 months ago · Delete Post.Lola Twaites
Thanks Susan. That makes a whole new possibility to lead into. I do get excited about family history but feel overwhelmed to get started.
about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Ellen Framness
I am researching the following names: Perry, Damkoehler, Gillespie, and Manchesky. I think the Manchesky line is from Southern Door County or Northern Kewaunee (near Forestville) I do have quite a bit of information on the Perrys and the Damkoehlers. Four Perrys came to the Forestville area from Ireland. Matthew Sam and Richard stayed, but John apparently departed for California and we are unable to find any trace of him after that.
about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Julie Diltz
I'm familiar with the mancheskis just south of sturgeon bay...large farm family my son married a grand daughter...some of them are on facebook and could hook you up...let me know...Julie
about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Susan E. Hardin
Finally found out Lewis Rohde was Lars Torkelssen Rodde in Norway, and Ingeborg was actually Inger Gjerald (think her mother and maybe grandmother were Ingeborgs), and they may have emigrated to U.S. later than info I had been told. Found farms they lived in and all the families and names residing there also.
about 6 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Samara Southard
Hi Nikkie and all! My maternal Grandmother was a Bassford - the George Bassford family. He was the first inland settler of Sevastopol. I have a cute story: In '01, I married a Fellner boy. Well... YEARS ago... the Fellners bought land from the Bassfords and here, years and years later, a Bassford gal (me) married a Fellner boy (Mike). Isn't THAT a cute Door County story?!?!?! I love it! ;) I LOVE having such good Door County ties... my little Fellner kids especially have a cute story ~with this story that I shared. =)

Thanks for starting this group. =)
about 5 months ago · · Report · Delete Post.Door County Genealogy and Family History
WOW!! I thought as page owner, I would get notifications of activity on this wall, but I guess not! There has been some discussion!! :-) Love to see this!!!!
about 2 months ago · Delete Post.

11/03/2011

Don't forget out discussion boards are disappearing! Facebook is removing them... so any discussions we've had on Door County names will be gone. What family names are you researching or interested in preserving history on?

10/04/2011

October is family history month! What are you researching or wishing you were researching right now??

05/30/2011

Don't forget to honor your veteran ancestors today!! :-) They are a great place to pick up the research if you are stuck!!

05/12/2011

Planning on a family history day in the VERY near future! Spend some time at the court house and library in Sturgeon Bay if anyone wants to join and make a day of it!!

05/12/2011

Anyone else heading to the Cemetary walk in Ephraim next week?? Info available through Ephraim Historical Foundation. I'll be there. It is Tuesday afternoon! Can't wait!!!

04/29/2011

Have you done family research yet? How far back have you been able to trace or are you just getting started??

04/26/2011

How many of you use ancestry.com? Did you know that our library has a membership and you can use it free anytime you are there?? heritage quest online you can also use for FREE at home as long as you have your library card! Check out the resources our library website has!!!

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