Genealogy Research of the Families of
Tomah, Monroe County,
Wisconsin
Welcome to a
website that contains extensive genealogical research of the
families that settled in and around Tomah, a city in Monroe County in
west-central Wisconsin. This website is
the result of more than 45 years of research of the ancestors
and descendants of more than 400 families who made their home in the Tomah area
or are related by marriage to those who did.
The research began
in the 1930’s, when my maternal grandmother, Auguste Lydia (Kewit)
Pergande—who was born in 1883 in Ridgeville Township—began to clip and save obituaries
and selected articles from Tomah-area newspapers. After her death in 1975, the collection was
continued by her oldest daughter, Bernice (Pergande) Griggs. Mom passed away in 2000, and I continued to
add to the collection—at first from subscriptions to Tomah papers and then from
on-line sources like websites of the Sonnenburg Family Funeral Home, the
Torkelson Funeral Home, and the Tomah Journal/La Crosse Tribune. There are nearly one thousand obituaries in
the collection, and they formed the basis for the development of the RootsMagic database that was used to develop this website.
In addition to
information from the obituaries, the database contains extensive research from
online websites with sources such as immigration records, census records, Find-a-Grave
cemetery records, and Social Security death records; genealogy research websites
like Ancestry, MyHeritage, Geneanet, and
FamilySearch; and contributions from people who have contacted me after finding
this website. As a result, the database now
contains nearly 79,000 Monroe County settlers and their descendants or people
who have relationship ties to families in the Tomah area.
Listed below are
links to various sections of research that are located on this website:
Tomah Family Trees Reports
of the descendants and marriage-related relatives of families who settled in the
Tomah area of Monroe County in the mid- to late-1800’s.
Tomah Mayflower
Families Reports of the Tomah-area
descendants of nine passengers on the Mayflower during its famous voyage from
England to Plymouth Rock in 1620.
Oak Grove Cemetery Reports of the decedents,
burial dates and grave locations of nearly 7,000 interments that took place in
the cemetery between its opening in about 1860 and the end of 2002.
St. John’s Parish
Register Reports of all of the people whose birth, baptism, confirmation,
marriage, death and/or burial are recorded in the original Parish Register of
St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Ridgeville. The church has three registers that have been
used to record the above information since its founding, and this website
includes the Book I register entries that were made between 1861 and 1889. St. John’s is included in this website
because it was the home church of my Pergande and Jaskewicz
(Kewit) ancestors on The Ridge.
Griggs and Pergande
Families Reports of the
ancestors and descendants of my Griggs and Pergande families.
I hope that you enjoy the research that
is contained in the above reports. This
information is by no means complete, so if you have information that you would
like to correct or add to any of the reports, please contact me at the e-mail
address below.
To view the information, click on the section
links below. Once you are in a
particular section, click on its various links to see the listed reports or
other websites. IMPORTANT: To navigate within a section or to go to
another section, click the “Back Arrow” or the “Home” link in the
upper-left-hand corner of the screen containing the various pages. Also, if you see a “Black Camera Icon” next to
a name, click on it to see a picture related to that particular
person.
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Griggs
and Pergande Families
Gary Griggs
Murrells Inlet, SC
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