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    U.S. - Wisconsin

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    • Berlin, Wisconsin Public Schools 1882-1883 
      Lists the teachers and staff and pupils from the school year 1882-1883. Lists former graduates of classes from 1865 thru 1882 and where they were in 1882-1883. There is also a photo of the Berlin High School.
    • Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy 
    • GenDisasters.com - Events That Touched Our Ancestor's Lives - Wisconsin 
      GenDisasters.com, chronicles the events that touched our ancestors' lives - train wrecks, fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, storms, mining explosions, ship wrecks, drownings, and accidents. Transcribed newspaper accounts, excerpts from historical books and photographs detail hundreds of life's tragedies that our ancestors' endured, from the 1800s to the 1950s. New material is being transcribed and added daily. Searchable.
    • Great Lakes Maritime History Project 
      Great Lakes maritime history, Wisconsin history, Wisconsin immigrants, shipwrecks. The state of Wisconsin has a proud and colorful history. One of its richest and most romantic chapters is its maritime history, staged on the waters of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, on hundreds of smaller lakes and a whole network of rivers. Much of that fascinating story has been captured in photography and art and this web site brings to the public eye some of its highlights.Wisconsin pioneers of the 1830s and '40s, largely Irish, German and Scandinavian immigrants, came West on paddlewheel steamboats. Lumber from Wisconsin's forests was ferried to the markets of the East by hundreds of tall sailing ships. Fleets of swift "propellers" brought manufactured goods from the Atlantic states to burgeoning Wisconsin cities in the Civil War era, and took back grain and flour and dairy products from Badger State farms. Since the 1860s, natural resources mined in Wisconsin have been transported to distant cities and steel mills by distinctive Great Lakes bulk freighters. The ports of Lake Michigan and Lake Superior became favorite destinations for passenger cruise liners before the end of the Nineteenth Century. And more recently, the St. Lawrence Seaway has brought to Wisconsin's ports literally hundreds of picturesque ocean ships each year.
    • The Great Peshtigo Fire of 1871 
      Research guide for genealogists and history buffs to America's most disastrous forest fire which occurred the same day as the more famous, but less deadly Chicago Fire.
    • The Milton House Museum Historic Site 
      Includes information about the Underground Railroad in Wisconsin.
    • Oshkosh in 1918: An interdisciplinary study of the 1918 influenza epidemic 
    • Pioneering the Upper Midwest 
      Pioneering the Upper Midwest, ca. 1820-1910, contains seventeenth- to early twentieth-century accounts of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin as recorded in 138 books drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division.
    • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections 
      Promoting the Wisconsin idea by providing professional leadership in the creation of quality digital resources from libraries and archives for faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large.
      • Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids 
        The Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids presents archival finding aids prepared and contributed by the following institutions: The University of Wisconsin Archives and Records Management Service, University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Department of Special Collections, Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures. These finding aids describe unpublished primary resources held in institutions throughout the Midwest. They serve as the primary access point for more detailed research information found in archival and manuscript repositories. In general, archival collections can include a variety of materials such as correspondence, diaries, maps, government records, film, photographs, and audio.
      • Wisconsin Blue Books 
        The digitization of 150 years of The State of Wisconsin Blue Book reference series provides worldwide access to facts and figures pertaining to the government, people, industry, lifestyle and history of the state. The project includes Blue Books from 1853–2003. The biennial books include biographical information on politicians and office holders, historical information on the state and its economy, and photographs of local communities around the state. Volumes are arranged chronologically for easy browsing, and searches can be performed on all Blue Books or on a single volume.
      • The State of Wisconsin Collection 
        The State of Wisconsin Collection brings together, in digital form, two categories of primary and secondary materials: writings about the State of Wisconsin and unique or valuable materials that relate to its history and ongoing development. Compiled by librarians, archivists, and subject specialists, the collection includes published material as well as archival materials. The materials were digitized from a variety of formats including books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps and other resources deemed important to the study and teaching of the State of Wisconsin. This collection is a work-in-progress. New titles are added frequently. All content is digital and available to the public.
    • Wisconsin Electronic Reader 
      The Wisconsin Electronic Reader is a cooperative project of the University of Wisconsin General Library System and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in celebration of the sesquicentennial of Wisconsin statehood which includes stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies, journals, postcards and tidbits from Wisconsin history. This excellent site does include relationships to other states and has a SEARCH capability.
    • Wisconsin History 
      A Historical Review From Native Americans Through WWII. Article by Rickie Lazzerini.
    • Wisconsin History Links 
      A comprehensive guide to resources on Wisconsin history on the Internet.
    • Wisconsin History Timeline 
    • Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles 
      Historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The original material was organized into two groups (people and communities) and arranged alphabetically. Most articles were published between 1860 and 1940, though a few published earlier or later than these years are also included. Hundreds of Wisconsin local newspapers, and a few from other states.
    • Wisconsin Railroading History Shop 
      Wisconsin railroads only. New and used books, pre 1950 collectibles, and railroad maps.
    • Yahoo!...History...Wisconsin 

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    • GenWisconsin Mailing List 
    • GERMANS-WI Mailing List 
      For the discussion of the genealogy, history, and culture of Germans in Wisconsin from Territorial times to present including immigrants from all parts of Germany, Pomerania, Saxony, etc. Discussion of migration patterns, immigration, heraldry, historical sketches, settlements, census data, wills, family Bibles, vital records, web sites, etc. is encouraged. In addition, seasonal (holiday) traditions relative to favorite German recipes handed down from generation to generation will be allowed. Archives: browse or search.
    • MI-WI-ROOTS-L Mailing List 
      Michigan & Wisconsin.
    • NISHNAWBE Mailing List 
      For anyone researching Native Americans in Michigan and Wisconsin, and the fur traders connected with them.
    • WI-AfriGeneas Mailing List 
      To coordinate, network and strengthen the efforts of African ancestored family researchers within Wisconsin.
    • WI-CEMETERIES Mailing List 
      For anyone interested in locating and preserving historical information about Wisconsin cemeteries.
    • WI-CIVIL-WAR Mailing List 
      For anyone with a genealogical interest in the role of Wisconsin and its people during the Civil War. Archives: browse or search.
    • WI-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List 
      For the sharing of original Wisconsin source material such as wills, deeds, bible records, tax lists, cemetery files, pension applications, obituaries, old letters, marriage lists, etc. with other Wisconsin researchers.

    • Yahoo! Groups: wibelgians - Belgians in Wisconsin 
      For those interested in sharing and/or finding out more about the immigration and settlement of the Belgians in Wisconsin. This is also a place to ask questions and hopefully learn more about your own ancestry!.

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    • AfriGeneas | African Ancestry in Wisconsin 
    • Biographical Histories - Wisconsin Biography Project 
      An index of biographies found in historical publications statewide.
    • Census of the Scattered Bands of Potawatomies in Wisconsin and Michigan, 30 June 1915 
      Carter, Forest County, Wisconsin (Potawatomi Indians) 1915 Census performed by W.W. Bennett, Superintendent, for Commissioner of Indian Affairs, United States Indian Service, Department of the Interior.
    • Early African American Settlers 
      The largest rural African American settlement of freed and newly free slaves in the state of Wisconsin. Began in 1850 - 1940. Detailed info on Arms and Shivers families.
    • French in Wisconsin 
      Historical material on French settlement in Wisconsin, with emphasis on Pepin County.
    • GEDCOM Index .com - Wisconsin 
      Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.
    • The History of Oneida WPA Stories 
      Oneida Indian researcher and author Susan G. Daniels has recently completed a major project: transfering over 11,000 written pages of Oneida Indian history onto 13 CD's. This work involves the work of a number of Oneida's who were involved in the Work Progress Administration (WPA) writing projects during the 1930's on the Oneida Reservation in Wisconsin. This collection of stories holds a wealth of information and may provide the resources needed for valuable genealogy research.
    • ICARE - Wisconsin Adoptee - Birth Family Registry 
    • Native American Research in Wisconsin 
    • Transplanted but not Uprooted: 19th-Century-Immigrants from Hessen-Darmstadt in Wisconsin 
      Between 1839 and 1860, some 2,000 people from Rheinhessen, one of the three provinces of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany, emigrated to Wisconsin where they clustered in several counties, especially Milwaukee, Washington, and Sheboygan.
    • Tribes and Villages of Wisconsin 
    • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections 
      Promoting the Wisconsin idea by providing professional leadership in the creation of quality digital resources from libraries and archives for faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large.
      • Belgian American Research Collection 
        One of the country's largest concentrations of Walloon-speaking Belgians is found in northeastern Wisconsin, resulting in a unique cultural and social flavor. A pilot project was undertaken in 1975-1976 to establish a Belgian-American Ethnic Resource Collection in the Special Collections Department of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Cofrin Library. The objective was to record the undocumented historical, social, and cultural legacy of this unique ethnic group. Images of the farms as well as oral history interviews had previously been digitized by the UWDCC. New materials include nine in-depth architectural surveys maps, which were drawn to scale showing the location (both past and present) of structures, gardens, orchards fences, fields, driveways, etc, and include materials such as draft maps and deeds, as well as a large collection of log structure images.
      • History of Women at the University of Wisconsin 
        These seven volumes, published by the University of Wisconsin, augment the general histories of the University by focusing on the roles and activities of women students, faculty, and staff and on the development of women’s studies throughout the System. Included in this collection are: University Women (4-part series)Part 1: They Came to Learn, They Came to Teach, They Came to Stay. Part 2: Wisconsin Women, Graduate School, and the Profession. Part 3: Women Emerge in the Seventies. Part 4: Women on Campus in the Eighties: Old Struggles, New Victories. Transforming Women’s Education: The History of Women’s Studies in the University of Wisconsin SystemFlickering Clusters: Women, Science, and Collaborative Transformations Women at Stout: A Centennial Retrospective.
      • Wisconsin Pioneer Experience 
        The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience is a digital collection of diaries, letters, reminiscences, speeches and other writings of people who settled and built Wisconsin during the 19th century. The project has been made available through the partnership of the Council of University of Wisconsin Libraries (CUWL) and the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS). Features: Wisconsin pioneers, Norwegian immigrants (to Wisconsin), Oneida Indians, early Wisconsin settlement (pre-1850), English immigrants (to Wisconsin), early Milwaukee settlement, Scottish immigrants (to Wisconsin), German immigrants (to Wisconsin), Norwegian immigrants to the Eau Claire (Wisconsin), African-American settlement of Pleasant Ridge (now Beetown, WI) and WPA collected and transcribed recollections of Superior (Wisconsin) area pioneers.
        • Brainerd, Molly Pease. Letters. 
          Four letters written by Mary ("Molly") Brainerd from rural Danville, Dodge County, Wis. to relatives in Michigan. The two earlier letters are addressed to her niece, Lavinia, a student in Kalamazoo, Mich. and are filled with family news and detailed information about crop conditions. The 1881 letter tells of a very hard winter with deep snow and its attendant difficulties, and of a lot of sickness and death. The 1882 letter describes the provisioning of family members who left for the minefields of Montana. Uncorrected OCRd transcription available.
        • Brandt, Gerard - Letters 1850-1860 
          Selections from Gerard Brandt, Letters 1850-1860 (MILWAUKEE) - Selection from the letters from Gerard and Catherine Brandt of Holland township in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, to relatives and friends, chiefly in Milwaukee and the Netherlands, about personal and religious matters and life in Wisconsin. 35 pages of typed translations from the original Dutch.
        • Chase, Enoch. (1840s Wisconsin) 
          Reminiscences of a pioneer settler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who left his home in Vermont in 1831, traveled by schooner and stage to Coldwater, Michigan, where he practiced medicine and taught school. In April, 1835, he drove a team to Milwaukee. In his narrative he describes and characterizes many of the pioneer men and women of Milwaukee, and speaks of Indian troubles, the organization of government, the development of industries, and local rivalries. A portion of the sketch is published in James S. Buck's Pioneer History of Milwaukee, 1:49-52 (Milwaukee, 1890).
        • Currey, J. Seymour. Vilas County (Notes, 1906) 
          J. Seymour Currey, Vilas County Notes, 1906 (WHS) - Notes by Currey on the lakes of Vilas County, Wisconsin, including information on Charles A. Bent and his family, owners of a resort on Lake Mamie. 11 handwritten pages.
        • Dinsdale, Rev. Matthew (Letters, 1844) 
          Selection of letters by Rev. Dinsdale written from Linden and other Wisconsin settlements to his relatives in Askrigg, Yorkshire, England, describing his trip to the United States in 1844 and giving minute advice to prospective immigrants; his pastoral services as a Methodist minister at Potosi, Wisconsin, and in the Lake Winnebago circuit; economic conditions as seen through his work as a clerk in stores at Linden and elsewhere. Some letters from the original collection have been omitted due to illegibility.
        • Douglas, James and Margaret. (Letters, 1840-1843)  
          James and Margaret Douglas Letters, 1840-1843 (MILWAUKEE) - Selections of typed transcripts of letters describing conditions in America to family members in Scotland from immigrants James and Margaret Douglas, who lived first in Mt. Morris, New York, then settled near Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1844.
        • Drew, James. (Reminiscences, 1845-1846)  
          James Drew, Reminiscences, 1845-1846 (WHS) - Reminiscences of a Glasgow couple's visit, July 1845-April 1846, to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, including information on farming, land prices, impressions of the people, local government, schools, and religion. Originals are in the New York Historical Society, New York, N.Y. 16 typed pages.
        • Goodnow, Lyman. (Recollection, 1880?) 
          Lyman Goodnow, Recollection, 1880? (MILWAUKEE) - Typed manuscript of Goodnow's account of how he helped the first slave escape to Canada from Wisconsin the Territory in 1843. 11 pages of typed transcriptions.
        • Gunleik Asmundson Bondal, Letter, 1854. 
          Gunleik Asmundson Bondal, Letter, 1854. (WHS) - Translation of a letter written by Gunleik Asmundson Bondal, a Norwegian immigrant, on January 17, 1854, describing his journey from Krago, Norway, to Dane County, Wisconsin and his family's new life in America. He recounts the price of cattle, farm implements, food, clothing, and other necessities, and writes of farming, including descriptions of the machines used, wages, the time taken by various tasks, geography, and climate. He draws many comparisons between the New World and the Old. Also mentioned is the California gold rush and cholera epidemic. 7 typed translations from the original Norwegian. Uncorrected OCRd transcriptions of some letters available.
        • Hagen Family Papers, 1879-1899 (Eau Claire, WI) 
          Hagen Family Papers, 1879-1899 (EAU CLAIRE) - Family histories and typed translations of letters from several Norwegian immigrants to the Eau Claire, Wisconsin area: Anders (Andrew) P. Solem, maternal grandfather of the collection's donor, Harold Hagen; Elling (Erling) Andersen Sende, Hagen's paternal great-grandfather; and Anders Lian (also known as Andrew Lee), Hagen's maternal grandmother's cousin. Letters by Anders P. Solem are directed to his grandfather in Norway. In them he describes his experiences working in sawmills and lumber camps, comments on labor conditions, including a strike for the ten-hour day, and offers various observances regarding life in America. Letters by Elling Anderson Sende and his wife Guruanna relate family matters and further detail life in Eau Claire. Letters written to Anders Lian and his family concern arrangements for bringing him to America. The largest group of letters in the collection are written by Anders Lian to his family in Norway. They also document work in the lumber industry and discuss current events, and the economic and political climate in 1890s America. Also of interest are Lian's experiences enlisting in a military training camps as a volunteer soldier at the time of the Spanish-American war. The family histories in the collection were written by Genevieve Hagen and include biographical details as well as genealogical information for each of the correspondents. 89 pages of typed translations from the original Norwegian and original family histories.
        • Hartwig, Theodore E.F. (Letters, 1846 and 1851)  
          Theodore E.F. Hartwig, Letters, 1846 and 1851 (WHS) - Two typewritten translations of letters, written by Dr. Theodore E. F. Hartwig, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, September 25, 1846 and November 21, 1851, to his family in Germany describing his trip to the United States by sailing vessel, railroad, and lake steamer to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and describing Cedarburg and Milwaukee. 30 pages of typed translations from the original German.
        • Hastings, Lucy A. (Letters 1850s-1860s) 
          Family correspondence to and from Lucy A. Hastings and her husband David; including letters from relatives in Dexter, Michigan, and an 1855 description of moving from Massachusetts to Oxford, Wisconsin, and information on Indians around Oxford, moving to Eau Claire in 1857, and an Indian panic there in 1862.
        • Hodges, William. (Letter, 1856) 
          One letter dated June 11, 1856, written by Hodges describing pioneer conditions in Pierce County, Wisconsin. Uncorrected OCRd transcription available.
        • Hollister, Uriah. (Letter, 1912) 
          Typewritten transcription of reminiscences, ca. 1912, by Hollister, Delavan, Wisconsin, concerning the settlement and growth of the area and youthful experiences; and one letter, 1839, written by his mother describing the family's trip from New York to Wisconsin and their new surroundings. Uncorrected OCRd text available.
        • Huey, Mrs. Thomas (Letter, 1924) 
          Mrs. Thomas Huey, Address, 1924 (STOUT) - Address given in 1924 by Mrs. Thomas Huey in which she reminisces about her life in Dunn County, Wisconsin, between 1863 and 1883; and a postcard from Henry E. Knapp in which he comments on the address. 7 pages of typed transcriptions.
        • Ingeborg Holdahl Alvstad, Reminiscences 
          Ingeborg Holdahl Alvstad, Reminiscences, undated (RIVER FALLS) - Recollections by Alvstad of her family's emigration from Norway, the sinking of their ship, their settlement in Gilman Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin, in 1889, and her early years there as her family established a farm home. 9 typed, transcribed pages.
        • John Archiquette, Diary 1868-1874  
          John Archiquette, Diary 1868-1874 (GREEN BAY) - Typed translation of a diary kept by Archiquette, an Oneida Indian, containing information on tribal council decisions and discipline and on farming, road building, religious services, and other aspects of life on the Oneida Reservation near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Translated from the Oneida language by Oscar H. Archiquette. 34 pages of typed transcriptions from the original Oneida.
        • Miller, Ellen Spaulding (Papers, 1863-1887) 
          Selections from Ellen Spaulding Miller, Papers, 1863, 1870-1887 (EAU CLAIRE) - Selections from the papers of a woman who lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, in the 1870s. The collection consists largely of letters written principally by Ellen Spaulding Miller to family members who probably lived in New York. The letters reflect domestic life, family relationships, economic conditions, lumbering, religious revivals, and health conditions in the lumbering capital of northwestern Wisconsin. 115 pages.
        • Moulton, Emeline M. (Letters) 
          Letters from Emeline M. Moulton and other settlers of Rochester, Racine County, Wisconsin, to relatives in Cabot, Vermont, discussing prices of commodities and family matters and briefly referring to unhappy experiences of men who had joined the California gold rush.
        • Myrick, Nathan (Letter, 1892) 
          Typewritten copy of a letter from Nathan Myrick, an early settler of La Crosse, Wisconsin, to F. A. Copeland, Mayor of La Crosse, dated St. Paul, Minnesota, January 28th, 1892, in which he provides a brief account of his life and reminiscences of his arrival at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1841 and subsequent life as a trader in the settlement of La Crosse, until his departure for Minnesota, ca. 1850. Uncorrected OCRd text available.
        • Plumbe, John (Diary of, Sinipee, Wisconsin) 
          Diary kept by Plumbe, the owner and promoter of the boom town of Sinipee, Wis., on the Mississippi River. Detailed entries describe the platting and settlement of Sinipee, the writing and publication of his promotional book "Sketches of Iowa and Wisconsin," and his efforts to secure wagon roads and railroad connections to Milwaukee, Racine, and Chicago. Some entries touch an lumber rafting, lead shipments, and steamboat traffic, and there are references to Byron Kilbourn, James D. Doty, William R. Smith, and others interested in the development of southwestern Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa.
        • Ranney, Oprah (Letters) 
          Photocopies of letters from Ranney, Dunn County, Wis., to her sister Adah Holcomb in New Hartford, Conn., including details of her trip from New York to Wisconsin and describing illnesses, children, deaths, domestic chores, farming, weather, Christmas, and other details of daily life. Uncorrected OCRd transcriptions of some letters available.
        • Salter, George. (Letters, transcripts) 
          Photocopied material relating to the life of "Daddy" Salter of Juneau County, Wis. who is said to have killed many Native Americans in retaliation for his wife's murder at their Town of Clearfield tavern. Included is a 34-page typewritten description by Salter of his departure from England; travels (1843-1864) in Wisconsin to Portage, Reedsburg, and Kilbourn City, and down the Mississippi River to New Orleans; life in Wisconsin; and an account of his brutal slaying of two Native Americans suspected of murdering his wife. Also included is a 4-page typewritten obituary (ca. 1906) of Salter in which he is said to have admitted to murdering eighteen Native Americans. Uncorrected OCRd text available.
        • Shepard, Charles. (Papers, 1848-) 
          Papers of Charles Shepard and other residents of the black settlement of Pleasant Ridge (now Beetown), Wisconsin, including letters, tax receipts, and community history. Shepard (Sheppard) was the head of the first African-American family to settle in what became a pioneer black community about five miles west of Lancaster, Wisconsin. In 1848, the family of William Horner, a Haymarket, Virginia planter, moved to Wisconsin, bringing with them their freed slaves: Charles and Caroline Shepard (nee Brent), their three children, Harriet, John and Mary, and Charles' brother Isaac. A woman named Sarah Brown, who was left behind in slavery, later joined this family after Isaac returned to Virginia and paid for the woman's freedom. The two then married. Charles and Isaac left a mother and several brothers and sisters in Virginia who planned on heading west at a later date. Eventually, these individuals migrated to Washington D.C. The letters are chiefly communications between the Shepards in Wisconsin and their relatives in the East. Other letters are those of Thomas and John Greene, other settlers of Pleasant Ridge.
        • Tillman, Friedrich (Diary, 1856-1899) 
          Selections from Tillman Brothers (La Crosse, Wisconsin), Records, 1856-1899 (LA CROSSE) -Translations of a diary kept by Friedrich Tillman, partner in a furniture and undertaking establishment founded in 1859 in La Crosse, when he sailed to America from Germany in 1856. 23 pages of hand written translations from the original German.
        • Wells, Rev. Milton. (Letter 1844) 
          Milton Wells, Letter 1844 (WHS) - Typewritten copy of a letter written by Reverend Wells of Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin Territory, to Charles Hall, Secretary of the American Board of Home Missions, concerning the plight of Norwegian immigrants in the Town of Rochester and his need for aid to help them. 3 pages of typed transcriptions.
      • Wisconsin Territorial Letters (1837-1852) 
        Selections from Wisconsin Territorial Letters, 1837-1852 (WHS) - Selections from letters from various places in Wisconsin, addressed for the most part to residents of Eastern states, reflecting living conditions in rural Wisconsin during territorial and early statehood days. They contain frequent references to the prevalence of fever and ague among the settlers, and notations of wages and the prices of commodities and real estate. Among the letters are small groups from leaders of two religious denominations--the Congregational minister E. D. Seward of Lake Mills and the Presbyterian minister Jeremiah Porter at Green Bay-- and 10 letters from ministers of the Baptist Home Missionary Society to the Reverend Benjamin M. Hill, corresponding secretary of the Society. A calendar of the collection is included. 222 photostated pages of handwritten text.
    • Wisconsin Biographies Project 
    • Wisconsin Blacksheep Ancestors 
      Directory of links for prison and convict records, court records, executions, famous outlaws, criminals & bandits.
    • Wisconsin Historical Society - Wisconsin Name Index 
      Search more than 100,000 obituaries, personal sketches, and other short biographies of Wisconsin people. These texts originally appeared in 150 county and local histories, dozens of professional directories and biographical encyclopedias, more than 60 scrapbooks containing 30,000 obituaries, and in Wisconsin magazines and newspapers. Thousands include portraits and other illustrations. Users can search the database with a last name, first name, maiden name, time frame, and various other details. Photocopies of biographical sketches, articles, and obituaries can all be ordered online through our online genealogical research service.
    • Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles 
      Historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and 20th centuries. The original material was organized into two groups (people and communities) and arranged alphabetically. Most articles were published between 1860 and 1940, though a few published earlier or later than these years are also included. Hundreds of Wisconsin local newspapers, and a few from other states.
    • WPA Life Histories from Wisconsin 
      Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940, Library of Congress.

    Periodicals & Pamphlets

    Magazines, journals, quarterlies, newsletters, pamplets, leaflets

    • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections 
      Promoting the Wisconsin idea by providing professional leadership in the creation of quality digital resources from libraries and archives for faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large.
      • The Badger Chemist (1953-2003) 
        The Badger Chemist is a newsletter publication of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry. Initiated in 1953, The Badger Chemist is published annually and features articles, commentary, news items, and photographs concerning students, faculty, and alumni of the Department of Chemistry.
      • Wisconsin Alumni Magazine 
        The Wisconsin Alumni Association has published a magazine continuously since October 1899. The publication was called the Wisconsin Alumni Magazine from 1899 to 1935 (volumes 1-37), the Wisconsin Alumnus from 1936 to 1988 (volumes 38-89), and the Wisconsin Alumni from 1988-90 (volumes 90-91). In 1990 the publication became On Wisconsin.

    Photographs & Memories

    Photos, postcards, yearbooks, school memorabilia, and other ephemera of life

    • Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive - Wisconsin 
      Searchable database containing images of thousands of identified and mystery 19th & 20th century photos for genealogy enthusiasts looking for long-lost family. Search vintage school annuals, faculty & students,images & names. Upload your own vintage yearbooks so others can discover their ancestral images.
    • FamilyOldPhotos.com - Wisconsin 
      Old, antique, or vintage photos. User submitted with family history and details.
    • Old-Yearbooks.com - Wisconsin 
      Old high school & college yearbooks, graduation programs, reunion booklets, class rolls, alumni lists, school photos & memorabilia.
    • University of Wisconsin Digital Collections 
      Promoting the Wisconsin idea by providing professional leadership in the creation of quality digital resources from libraries and archives for faculty, staff and students, citizens of the state and scholars at large.
      • Badger Yearbooks 
        Annual yearbook for UW-Madison, from 1885-1977. Keyword search this journal. Includes individual and group pictures, articles, and other yearbook content. The first yearbook of the University of Wisconsin was published in April 1884 and called the Trochos, which is a Greek word for badger. The second yearbook, also called Trochos, was not published until 1887. The first Badger was published in February 1888, and the Badger was published until 2003, with one hiatus in 1973-74. The Alumni Association helped publish volumes for those two years which basically only contain student photographs.

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    Records: Census, Cemeteries, Land, Obituaries, Personal, Taxes and Vital
    (Born, Married, Died & Buried)

    The sites found in this category vary in content. Some sites have extractions or transcriptions of actual records. Other sites have helpful lists, articles, tips or guidelines. In a few cases there are scanned images of the original source documents themselves, with more of these types of records coming online each day. Keep in mind that extractions & transcriptions may have errors or may be missing certain portions of the original source material. Always refer to the original source material whenever possible and only use extractions & transcriptions as a starting point to help guide you in your research.

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    • Ancestry.com - Wisconsin Land Records 
      Searchable database available by subscription.
    • Wisconsin Land Records -- Interactive Search 
      Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents from the BLM
    • Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records: Original Field Notes and Plat Maps 
      The field notes and plat maps of the public land survey of Wisconsin are a valuable resource for original land survey information, as well as for understanding Wisconsin's landscape history. The survey of Wisconsin was conducted between 1832 and 1866 by the federal General Land Office. This work established the township, range and section grid; the pattern upon which land ownership and land use is based. The survey records were transferred to the Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Lands after the original survey was completed. Since that time, these records have been available for consultation at the BCPL's office in Madison, as hand-transcriptions, and more recently on microfilm. Now, they are being made available via the internet as electronic images.

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    Religion & Churches

    Societies & Groups

    U.S. - Counties, Localities and Regions


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