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Wisconsin State Society Past Presidents
Barbara S. Roberts † Organizing President
Gretchen A. Warda †
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Gretchen A. Warda (nee Wernecke), a DAR sister, Colonial Dame & Wisconsin Society Past President, paid us over $4,000 back in the early 1980s to do field, on-site German Genealogy research in East Germany. Yes, back when it was NO FUN! She had read my article in a genealogical publication. The topic was on-site German Genealogy research IN-country. She was hooked. This fellow, Karl-Michael Sala had traveled to numerous tiny little villages all over Germany & the Czech Republic (Cechy in Czech, historically aka Bohemia or Böhmen, auf deutsch) for himself, the mother of his children, their ancestors & a few clients! This guy could actually decipher this old German handwriting better than his native German mother, for goodness sake. Give me a telephone so I can call this guy to ask him if he’d do some research for me.
