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Paul Wissmiller

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This is my grandfather (center) and my 4 uncles in 1947. My father was away at the time.

I inherited our original family history on paper at a Wissmiller reunion some time in the 1980s, and I've been working on Wissmiller genealogy on and off ever since. In general, I'm researching descendants of Jacob C. Wissmiller and Christiana Fink, our original ancesters who settled in central Illinois in the 19th century.

I'm always happy to receive additions or updates of people related in any way (marriage, adoption, etc.).

For births and new people to be added, I need:

• full name
• birth date and location
• any interesting tidbits
• a portrait style picture, if you have it

• full names of bride (maiden name) and groom
• marriage date and location
• any interesting facts about the marriage
• a wedding picture, if you have it

• date and location
• any further info (obituary, etc.)

Also, I'd like to get more pictures of everybody. That makes it more interesting than just names, dates and places. The goal is to have a portrait style picture of as many people as possible.

Web based forms easy data entry:

• Personal data form
• Marriage data form

Thanks!

Making genealogy data available for others to view is tricky due to privacy concerns. I’ve been storing the data mainly on Ancestry.com. Ancestry and the other main genealogy websites resolve the privacy issue by hiding personal data for all living people. That’s great for privacy but terrible if you want to see your living relatives.

Ancestry allows full access to the person who contributed the data (me), but hides personal information about living persons from others.