Volume Eight

                               Piecing Together the Butler Puzzle is revised LARGE PRINT Volume 8.  This book is co-authored by Phyllis Zatlin and Joe Klapatch, the family historian. The original edition was inspired by the postcard collection that Ellen Butler Zatlin began in 1907, when she was eleven years old.  Her daughter Phyllis who played with the cards as a child because she liked the pictures, many years later discovered that the messages on them gave valuable information on family history.  The child had no idea that her mother's cards were from the Golden Age of postcards and that deltiologists (postcard collectors) would be interested in them.  Nevertheless, as she grew up, she saved them and began her own postcard collection, starting in the late 1940s. Thanks to memoirs from various family members, the book provides insights in what life in Door County was like for the pioneers who arrived in the 19th century and how changes occurred over the decades.  Included in this book is a detailed genealogical chart of four generations since James Butler and Maria Gallagher Butler arrived in Wisconsin.   James and Maria Butler had eleven children.  Their oldest child, Thomas, and his wife Mary Gaeth Butler had thirteen children.  There are dramatic tales to be told about this extended family. 

                                     Make check payable to Phyllis Zatlin for $35.00 plus $5 shipping and handling and mail to: 

                                                                                              Phyllis Zatlin

                                                                                              6138 Lakeshore Road

                                                                                              Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235

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