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At the state level, we have tried to provide resources that are valuable to all Wisconsin Researchers as well as County Coordinators. Please feel free to use any information off the Wisconsin State page that is a useful addition to your WIGenWeb County pages. The following page ideas are based on the volunteer help pages from the GAGenWeb Project, and are used with permission.

Bibliography

Add a link to a listing of local history and genealogical books of interest to the researcher. The local library should be able to help you with this list if there’s not one already online. Following are a few book lists:

• Wisconsin Books at Origins
• Wisconsin Books at Heritage Books
• Bibliography of Wisconsin Indian Authors

You will probably encounter researchers looking for their birth parents. Our genealogy pages, queries, boards, email lists, etc. are not the place for this type of research. Genealogy research usually begins with a person’s grandparents to preserve the privacy of living persons. However, there are a tremendous number of sites on the internet that deal with folks looking for their birthparents. They should be referred to Adoption.org, Cyndi’s List, or any of the other excellent sites.

You can obtain a list of cemeteries in your county from the USGS Geographic Name Information System. Later, links, surveys and transcriptions can be added as data is received. Consider submitting cemetery data to the WIGenWeb Archives for permanent storage. Consider submitting church data to the WIGenWeb Archives for permanent storage. If you are interested in this alternative, review the Archives Guidelines for archiving data.

Check the Political Graveyard to see if someone notable is buried in your county and add them to your cemetery page. For more information, visit the USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project.

Tip: Contact any military re-enactors groups that may be in your area as they often conduct cemetery surveys/transcriptions as one of their projects. Genealogical and historical societies are another good source.

The USGenWeb Archives Project is striving to place census data online for each county in the United States. You can house data at your county’s site, or you can submit raw data for permanent placement in the WIGenWeb Census Archives, with a link from the county’s page. If you are interested in this alternative, please review the Guidelines for archiving data. State Coordinators and transcribers are always needed for the Archives Census Project.

You can obtain a list of some churches in your county from the USGS Geographic Name Information System. Later, links, records and transcriptions can be added as data is received. Consider submitting church data to the WIGenWeb Archives for permanent storage. If you are interested in this alternative, review the Archives Guidelines for archiving data.

Tip: A local phone book will help you out with finding current churches.

Counters assist you in determining the activity level of your page and when new elements should be added. If your page is hosted by RootsWeb, visit their counter help page. More Web Site Counters and Trackers.

At a minimum, provide a snail mail address and phone number. Courthouses meet with disaster from time to time, but that doesn’t mean all the records were destroyed. County coordinators should try to include a list of what is available at the local courthouse.

You can obtain these from the Funeral Net website, or a local phone book.

Don’t discount the value of a current phone book. Especially if you live across the country, it can really help you get your bearings, and of course, has a ton of current information.

Provide a snail mail address to your local or regional genealogical and/or historical society, along with phone number, e-mail address and web site, if possible.

It is helpful to researchers if you use a graphic to designate NEW and UPDATED items.

• Use only official USGenWeb logos found HERE, or the alternative logo found HERE.
• Use only offical WIGenWeb logos.
• GenConnect graphics are HERE.
• RootsWeb graphics are HERE.
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