Grant County, Wisconsin
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Grant County is available for adoption. Please contact the State or Assistant State Coordinator for Information

Many Thanks to Robin and her Contributors for their care and concern over the years.


Table Of Contents
"What's New" ~ Old Grant County Files ~ Lookups ~ Maps ~ Queries ~ USGenWeb® Archives
Vital Record Resources ~ Naturalization Records ~ Cemeteries ~ Obituaries ~ Odds
History ~ Military ~ Family Search: Historical Images and Film


Grant  County Neighbors:
Crawford ~ Iowa ~ Richland ~ Lafayette, Wisconsin
Clayton ~ Dubuque, Iowa
Jo Daviess, Illinois
Cities, Towns, Villages of Grant County: Wiki Linked pdf



History ~ Military ~ Family Search: Historical Images and Film

"Wisconsin County Histories and Biographies
Commemorative Biographical Record
of the Counties of
Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette, Wisconsin"
Chicago, J H Beers & Co: 1901
Biographical Index is Here ~ All Inclusive Index is Here
Transcribed Chapters are Here
Read Online or Download
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"History of Grant County, Wisconsin"
Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1881
Butterfield, Consul Willshire, 1824-1899
The Index is Here ~ The Biographies are Here
Chapter Transcriptions are Here
Read Online or Download
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"History of Grant County, Wisconsin"
By Castello N Holford, 1900
Township Histories are Here ~ Read Online or Download
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"History of the Bench and Bar of Wisconsin, Vols I & II"
John H Berryman, Ed.
Chicago: H C Cooper Jr & Co., 1898
The Indexes are Here, Vol I ~ Vol II
Read Online or Download
https://archive.org/details/cu31924018821748
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Wisconsin
"It's Story and Biography: 1848-1913"
By
Ellis Baker Usher, Vols 1 > 8
The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and new York, 1914
The Index is Here ~ The Biographies are in Vols 4 - 8, Please use this Link

Another source of historical information may be found in Passenger Lists.
Family Search's Catalog has a comprehensive list of information on Passenger Lists
Please use this link


So, if you could not find someone in a Census Record, you might check Passenger Lists to see if they were traveling.
The Ship Transcriber's Guild has Ship Manifest Records.

Passport Applications also provide Historical as well as Vital data: FS Catalog Resources

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Onward...

Military Information in the FS Catalog
  United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Individual Civilians, 1861-1866
Images of records from the United States Provost Marshal during the Civil War. The Provost Marshal served as military police for the Union Army. Records in this collection deal with deserters, Confederate spies, civilians suspected of disloyalty, civilian passage through military zones, etc. The records are in Record Group 109 located in the National Archives. This collection corresponds to NARA publication M345: Union Provost Marshals’ File of Papers Relating to Individual Civilians.
Here for the actual images: Each Alpha Range is linked to a Film
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There is a lot of information about the many Wars that have been fought both in the US and abroad.
It is not my intention to list them all, but there is a lot of interesting data that was created for and because of them.
The Wisconsin Historical Society has a nice collection of War data.
The National Archives has a listing of WWII Casualties
There was one file for Civil War Dead found in the old Kewaunee Files.
1890 Veteran's Schedule / 2nd Version
Nebraska, G A R Burial Records: 1861 - 1948
Montana Military Records: 1904 - 1918
Miscellaneous Military Data [Compilation of Databases]
Soldiers of the Great War: Wisconsin
Iowa,World War II Bonus Case Files for Beneficiaries,1947-1959

United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890
Online World War II Indexes and Records - USA
Military Headstones, Many Wars

WISCONSIN'S GOLD STAR LIST
Soldiers, Sailors, Marines, and Nurses from the Badger
State Who Died in the Federal Service
During the World War

US, WWI Draft Registration Cards: 1917-1918
and
US, WWI Draft Cards, Young Men: 1940-1947
POB as Listed, Residence: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Search the DAR ~GAR ~ SAR
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Family Search has an extensive collection of film for 1861-1865
"Adjutant General's Office. Index to compiled service records of volunteer Union soldiers who served in
organizations from the state of Wisconsin (1861-1865)."
To access the film, Log into FS, Search Catalog, Type in Wisconsin, Military, then 'Online',
then scroll down to 'Military Records, 1861-1865'

United States military records, 1824-1956
Official army register of the volunteer force of the United States Army for the years
1861, '62, '63, '64, '65

Books: Available for Download
Roster of Wisconsin volunteers, war of the rebellion, 1861-1865
The Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
Wisconsin Women in the War Between the States
Soldiers' and citizens' album of biographical record, containing personal sketches of army men and citizens prominent in loyalty of the Union : also a chronological and statistical history of the civil war, and a history of the Grand army of the republic, 1888

Lastly:
Miscellaneous Military, War Prison Records.
Please use this Link
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Family Search: Historical Images
Records that are not available with the traditional FS Search

A huge Assortment of Filmed Records:
Log into your FS Account, Search, Images
Enter Location of Choice



"The Fine Print"
Grant County Coordinator:
WIGenWeb State Coordinator: Tina Vickery
WIGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator: Marcia Ann Kuehl
Online Continuously since 1997~ The WIGenWeb Team. All rights reserved.
Copyright of submitted items belongs to those responsible for their authorship or creation unless otherwise assigned.

Site pdated: 2 December 2023
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