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,
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 Murrells Inlet, South
Carolina, for the past twenty-five 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 were 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 websites, and contributions from people who have contacted me after
finding this website. As a result, the database
now contains more than 72,000 people and their ancestors 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 maiden voyage 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 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 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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