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 about 450 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, began to clip and save the obituaries and selected articles from
Tomah-area newspapers. After her death
in 1971, the collection was continued by Lydia’s oldest daughter, Bernice
(Pergande) Griggs, until she passed away in 2000.
There are nearly
one thousand obituaries in the collection, which is now in the possession of
Bernice’s oldest son, Gary. Because of
the distance between Tomah and my home in Pawleys Island, SC, for the past twenty
years or so the obituaries have been downloaded from the online websites of the
Tomah Journal, the La Crosse Tribune, the Sonnenburg
Family Funeral Home, and the Torkelson Funeral Home and
entered into a RootsMagic genealogy database.
In addition to
information from the obituaries, the database contains extensive research from
online sources such as census records, Social Security death records, several genealogy
research sites, and contributions from people who have contacted me after
finding my website. As a result, the database
now contains more than 63,500 current residents and their ancestors with direct
or indirect ties to 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
descendants of nine passengers on the Mayflower during its voyage to Plymouth
Rock in 1620 who have direct descendants in the Tomah area.
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 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 records include
the Book I register entries between 1861 and 1889. St. John’s was the home church of my Pergande
and Jaskewicz (Kewit)
ancestors on The Ridge.
Griggs and Pergande
Families Reports of the
direct ancestors 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, 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 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
Pawleys Island, SC
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