Polk County Genealogical Society, Polk County Wisconsin

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Polk County

Genealogical Society

Found at the Frederic RR Museum1908 Sears Roebuck Catalog

listed/picture of a “very neat chambray gingham Sailor Suit”, 6-14 years $.98

Adult sizes suits $2.65

Ladies Hats from $1.69-$7.95

Huge tombstone - $110.00Small tombstone - as little as

$11.00

Pictorial Review of 1915 Mail

Order Homes from Sears: order the design ($5,000.00) you like with concrete blocks for the

basement.

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AA M E R I C A August 2016

Don’t forget to pay your

dues!Thank You.

MISSION STATEMENT: The mission of the Polk County Genealogical Society is to assist in the exchange and dissemination of information for genealogical investigations.

VISION STATEMENT: The vision of the Polk County Genealogical Society is to empower those interested in developing concise, accurate and comprehensive family histories.

Polk County Genealogy Society

10:00 A.M MONDAY 22 AUGUST 2016

Please meet at the Clear Lake Museum,

Clear Lake, Wisconsin for a tour of this historical society museum in search of

genealogy resources.

Lunch - then reconvene at 1:00 p.m. the RRC/Luck Museum, Luck, WI for

working session (1-2 p.m.), program (2-3 p.m.) and

business meeting (3-4 p.m.).

Refreshments and beverages served.

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Rhoncus tempor placerat.

2016 PCGS Schedule

A PCGS genealogy tour is scheduled for Monday Aug 22 at 10 am at the Clear Lake museum. Lunch a t a l o ca l r es tauran t . Reassemble at 1:00 p.m. in the RRC at the Luck Museum to examine the genealogy inventory of resources at this museum. Stoltz-Wood will check arrangements with Clear Lake Museum President.

September 26, 10 a.m. B e r g s t r a n d w i l l m a k e t h e arrangements for a PCGS tour of the St Croix Falls Historical Society’s Baker Building. Lunch at a local restaurant and meet up later at 1 p.m. in the RRC for a debriefing session to share what information PCGS members learned about genealogy sources at SCF .

24 October 10a.m. The Olson House Historical Center in Osceola, will be the PCGS genealogy tour for October, Lunch at a local restaurant and gathering back at the RRC/Luck Museum at 1:00 p.m. for conversation and exchange of inventory list for future researchers at this location. Jensen will make these arrangements.

Please check out the PCGS website and email

comments or inquiries to the PCGS email address:<polkgen@gmail.com>

Thanks to Russ Hanson for supervising this website.

Polk County Genealogy Society RRC Center/Luck Library - 301

Main Street Luck, Wisconsin 54853

715-472-2030 Meetings:

4th Monday Jan-Dec 1-4p Dues: $5.00 yearly

2016 Officers:President: Jay Bergstrand

Secretary/Webmaster - Russ Hanson Treasurer - Joyce Bergstrand

Newspaper Correspondent - Vickie Jensen

Editor/THE POST - Helen Stoltz-Wood

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A Whisper in the Windby

Muriel Morgan Pfeifer(1934-2014)

(Use with permission)

Wanderoos: The early settlers in this community were Scandinavians

with names like Olson, Frederickson, Christenson, Carlson and Johnson, The nearest trading center was either St. Croix Falls or a bit closer, Nye or Little Falls - a long, hard day’s trip on foot, a distance of seven miles each way. The women of the family carried their butter and eggs (around 8 / 10 cents a # of butter and about the same for a dozen eggs) to trade for sugar, coffee and kerosene. The community started out being called Dwight and was really a boom town - a bank, garage, two general stores, a hardware store, two restaurants, a lumberyard, two bars and several homes. Eventually a cheese factory, a pickle factory, an elevator, a mill, a potato warehouse, a blacksmith shop and several additional dwellings. With so many business places the community felt they needed a Post Office. However, when they applied for Post Office of their own (mail service had come through Nye or Deronda) the name Dwight was already taken and a new name was required. The local cheese maker was one, I.K. Wanderoos. The story goes that his name was sent into Washington D.C. as a joke and the Postal Department choose it - the only town with that name in the entire U.S.A. Dr. Perrin, OF Star Prairie was not only the family doctor but a friend to most in the community. The railroad came through on what was called “Spur Three,” being the third spur from St. Paul. Here Mr. Kroon built the first general store. Ole Christenson and Jack Jackson were later owners. The first school was on the corner of the former John Orner farm. The school later moved and was called the Simon Torgerson School. A new school was built in the 1920s but nothing remains of any of the old schools but memories. This community of thrifty Norwegians wanted a church of their own (distance to Deronda, Little Falls and Pine Lake). So, a congregation was formed and a church was built - Trinity Lutheran Church, established in 1896 - still a thriving congregation-2016.

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POLK COUNTY CEMETERY SEXTONSThe chart on the following page (page 5) is the first page of a 3 page list for the

cemeteries and sextons of Polk County, Wisconsin.This list includes:

The township (within Polk County) in which the cemetery is located;the Sexton’s name (at the time of chart was initially complied)

the Sexton’s phone #, and sometimes the Range/????????.The list may not be complete and it may be that the Sexton, for any given cemetery,

has changed, as then will the phone # also have changed.This chart can be very useful for those persons doing family history research. Please send additions or

corrections to Jay Bergstrand <jbergstr@amerytel.net>as this project goes forward moving the entire list out into the greater genealogy community. Knowing the name / phone # / location of a cemetery sexton (where you believe one of your

ancestors may be laid to rest) makes the search for family history that much easier.

PCGS Dues - $5.00 per year. Treasurer

Ms. Joyce Bergstrand - <jbergstr@amerytel.net>

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

TWIN PORTS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY

Railroad Records for Genealogy From “Ancestral Findings” 4/25/2016 Genealogy Helps and Look Ups, a free blog newsletter just for signing up. This is just a snip from the whole article. As with most genealogy records, some railroad records are easier to find than others. The place you should start looking, if you don’t already know where to find the records you want for your ancestor, is the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. https://www.rrb.gov (click on the Public link on right side and there is a link on how to get genealogical information). This is the organization that administers the current benefits program for today’s railroad workers. These records include anyone who worked for the railroad for a decade or more after the board was created in 1935. You can get detailed employment, personnel, and retirement records for your ancestor from this board. Bobbi Hoyt, Editor

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TOWN/CEMETERY SEXTON PHONE LocationALDENEast Immanuel Lutheran Bob Johnson 715-554-4202Little Falls Oliver Aune 715-607-1346Wagon Landing Brad Johnson 715-410-1861West Immanuel Lutheran Dave Weiss 715-294-2454

APPLE RIVERApple River/Shiloh Jay Bergstrand 715-268-9523 SW Sec 30Balsam Lutheran Bruce Hammer 715-268-6569 NE Sec 31Elim Wally Brackee 715-948-2543 NE Sec 36St Mary's NE Sec 35

BALSAM LAKEBalsam Lake Jeff Rogers 715-646-2202 SE Sec 9

BEAVERMount Hope Bev Austinson 715-948-2781

BLACK BROOKBlack Brook Town

BONE LAKEBone Lake Darrel Frandsen * 715-472-8212 SW Sec 29Zion Lutheran Irvin Hermstad * 715-472-2324

CLAM FALLSClam Falls Lutheran Rodney Moody 715-653-2306Lewis Dorothy Fahland * 715-653-4220

CLAYTONClayton Bob Carlson 715-948-2655Immanuel Dean Soderberg 715-607-0785Marsh Lake/Mission Doug Johnson 715-822-4645RichardsonWest Clayton Lee Elmer 715-781-5709

CLEAR LAKEClear Lake Don Webber 715-263-2682Moe Lutheran Marv Anderson 715-263-2583Swedish Congregational Terry Monson 715-263-2275

EUREKAGranum Janice Kruse 715-825-4399New Home Sherman Jensen * 715-483-3602North Valley Craig Cox 715-553-0252St John Darryl Klawitter

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Polk County Wisconsin Genealogy SocietyMaecenas pulvinar sagittis enim.

THANK YOU Del Thomas, for thepresentation of “Leaving A Legacy” at

the July 2016 meeting. This most interesting program explored several different avenues

for “saving” and/or “passing forward”all the “stuff ” we family history researchers

have collected over the years. Thanks again.Ms. Thomas and her

husband also joined the PCGS group as the members and friendsenjoyed a tour under the guidance of Dave Knutson,

local county Historical Society President.

POLK COUNTY IN WAR- World War I by Lund and Lund 1919(continued from a previous issue - will resume as space allows)

Gust A. Burow - Farmington Chester J. Christenson - Luck Walter L. Butterwick - Clayton Clarence E. Christenson -Amery

Dore S. Caldwell - Centuria Edward M. Christensen - SCFRalph S. Caldwell - Centuria Herman M. Christensen -Amery

Thor E. Carlberg - St. Croix Falls John D. Christensen - LuckAlbert W. Carlson - Clayton Soren Christensen - CushingEdward H. Carlson- Balsam Lake Charles G. Christopherson - Milltown

Gustaf A. Carlson -Nye Henry E. Christofferson - Amery

Harry J. Carlson - Clayton Orval J. Church - Osceola

Victor Carlson - Amery Floyd A. Church - OsceolaCharlie Carroll - Amery Adolph C. Clark - Clear LakeVivan A. Chell - Frederic A. John Clark - Clear Lake

Erwin A. Chinander - St. Croix Falls Harry M. Clark - Clear LakeMerrill A. Chinander - St. Croix Falls Harlen C. Clark - Nye

Alfred W. Christensen - Milltown Howard G. Clark - NyeCarl E. Christensen - Amery Leander S. Clark - Clear Lake

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After the beginners in family history research have data on themselves, talked to relatives, organized the information, been to the local library and joined a genealogy society, (and for those

not yet comfortable withusing the computer programs to start out with) purchasing copies of documents at your local

courthouse can become costly. PCGS members found the following three sheets that can be used to copy

“ Information from the record books located in the Register of Deeds Office, Polk County, Balsam Lake, Wisconsin. “

Birth Registration Information

Certificate # _______________ Volume ____________________Page_____________

Name of the child:_______________________________________________________________

Sex of the child_______________________________Names of other issue (children) living__________________________________________________________________________

Name of Father to this child________________________________________________________Occupation of Father_____________________________________________________________

Mother’s Maiden Name___________________________________________________________

Date/Hour of Birth______________________________________________________________Child’s Place of Birth_____________________________________________________________

Birthplace of Father______________________________________________________________

Birthplace of Mother______________________________________________________________

Name/Residence of Physician/Signor of Certificate_____________________________________

Date of Certificate______________________Date of Registration_________________________Any Additional Circumstances______________________________________________________

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Marriage Registration Information

Certificate #______________________Volume____________________Page_____________

Name of Husband______________________________________________________________

Maiden Name of Wife___________________________________________________________

Occupation of Husband__________________________________________________________

Residence of Husband___________________________________________________________

Birthplace of Husband___________________________________________________________

Place of Marriage_______________________________________________________________

Date of Marriage_______________________________________________________________Type of Ceremony______________________________________________________________Name/Residence of Officiant_____________________________________________________Names of Witnesses__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Father of Husband______________________________________________________________

Mother of Husband_____________________________________________________________

Father of Wife__________________________________________________________________

Mother of Wife_________________________________________________________________

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Death Registration Information

Certificate #____________________Volume ______________Page________

Name of Deceased_______________________________________________

Sex________________ Age_______________________________________

Name of Father__________________________________________________

Mother’s Maiden Name____________________________________________

Occupation of Deceased___________________________________________

Wife’s Name____________________________________________________Husband’s Name_________________________________________________

Date of Birth____________________________________________________Date of Death___________________________________________________Cause of Death__________________________________________________

Place of Death___________________________________________________Name /Location of Burial__________________________________________

Name of Person Signing Certificate__________________________________Date of Certificate_______________________________________________

Date of Registration______________________________________________

Any additional Circumstances_______________________________________

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