Manitowoc County Wisconsin

GENERAL RESOURCES

The following resources are provided to help you with your research. If you know of others, send us a link to it and we may add it to this page.

COUNTY, STATE & LOCAL OFFICES

Manitowoc County Courthouse
1010 S 8th Street
B-11
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(920) 683-4016

Probate Office: Probate files are available from 1850 by contacting 'Register in Probate'.

County Clerk
(920) 683-4003

Register of Deeds
PO Box 421
Manitowoc, WI 54221-0421
(920) 683-4013
Land records are available from the early 1800 by contacting the Register of Deeds. For original land patents you can also search for records online. Birth, death, & marriage records are available from the 1850's.

Wisconsin Department of Health Services
1 West Wilson Street
Madison, WI 53703
Records available: Births from 1858; Deaths from 1864; Marriages from 1859. In-Person Research by appointment only, Monday through Friday 2–4 p.m. To make an appointment call (608) 266-1373 or email DHSVitalRecords@wi.gov.

City of Manitowoc WI
900 Quay Street
Manitowoc, WI 54220
Property records, maps & information for the city of Manitowoc.

LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES

University of WI Library - Green Bay
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311
(920) 465-2000
Naturalization records are not kept at the county level, they are available through this library.

Manitowoc Public Library
707 Quay Street
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(920) 686-3000

Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum
Whitefish Point
18335 N. Whitefish Point Road
Paradise, MI 49768
(888) 492-3747

WI Historical Society
816 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
(608) 264-6535
Manitowoc Holdings

Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center
500 W. Fletcher Street
Alpena, Michigan 49707
(989) 884-6200

The Statue of Liberty - Ellis Island Foundation, Inc.
17 Battery Place #324
New York, NY 10004-3507
(212) 561-4588
Learn about Ellis Island, immigration, and search for information about your ancestors.

Castle Garden - Castle Clinton: Before Ellis Island, from 1855-1890 immigrants landed at Castle Garden. Visit the National Park Service website, or search for records for your ancestors on FamilySearch. (create a free account to view records)

Golda Meier Reference Library (Milwaukee) 

USGENWEB PROJECTS

The USGenWeb® Project:  Provides information about the project, research resources, links to state websites, ways you can volunteer, and more.

The WIGenWeb Project:  Provides information about Wisconsin, research resources, links to all county websites, and volunteer opportunities.

The Archives Project:  A digital library that curates a variety of contributed transcriptions, documents, images, and photos.

The Family Group Sheets Project: A curated collection of family lineages, supported by many contributors for over 20 years.

The Kidz Project: Dedicated to helping you and your children or students learn about genealogy and contains topics for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level researchers.

The Tombstone Transcription & Photo Project: A collection of transcribed inscriptions from headstones, monuments, and cemetery surveys, and includes cemetery information. The Photo project contains images of headstones, markers, and memorials.

The US African American Griots Project: Provides an opportunity to find records unique to the “African American Experience”, and curates military, vital, surname, probate records and photos.

VARIOUS OTHER RESOURCES

Diocese of Green Bay Archives
Chancery Building
1825 Riverside Drive
P.O. Box 23825
Green Bay, WI 54305-3825
(920) 272-8185

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) General Land Office (GLO) Records Search

Maritime History of the Great Lakes: Search collections

Great Lakes Maritime History

Herald Times Reporter Newspaper

Manitowoc Area Visitor & Convention Bureau
3733 Dewey Street
Manitowoc, WI 54220
(920) 686-3070

Interment.net Cemetery Records Online: Cemetery records, transcripts, and burial registers, from cemeteries around the world.

http://www.2manitowoc.com/: Manitowoc County, WI genealogical resources

GENUKI: A virtual reference library of genealogical information of particular relevance to the UK and Ireland.

National Purple Heart Hall of Honor 

National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) 

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall

BIBLIOGRAPHY

History of Northern Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development, and Resources; an Extensive Sketch of Its Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories; Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; Views of County Seats, Etc. (1881). United States: Western historical Company.

Geographical Origin of German Immigration to Wisconsin, By Kate Asaphine Levi, 1898.

Wisconsin Gazetteer: Containing the Names, Location, and Advantages, of the Counties, Cities, Towns, Villages, Post Offices, and Settlements, Together with a Description of the Lakes, Water Courses, Prairies, and Public Localities, in the State of Wisconsin, Alphabetically Arranged. By John Warren Hunt, 1853.

A History of Manitowoc County, Ralph Gordon Plumb, 1904.

Manitowoc: Story of a Century, 1849-1949. Manitowoc County Centennial Committee. Manitowoc: The Comm., 1948. 155 pp.

History of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin by Louis Falge, ed. in chief. 2 vols., Chicago: Goodspeed Hist. Assoc. 1911-12. (Repr. with index. 2 vols. Manitowoc: Manitowoc County Gen. Soc., 1976-79. 1,138 pp.)

Manitowoc County from Two Rivers to Manitowoc, Wis., Beach, United States. Department of the Army, ‎United States. Army. Corps of Engineers, 1957.

Wisconsin, Its History and Its People, 1634-1924, Volume 1, By Milo Milton Quaife, 1924.

Wisconsin, Its History and Its People, 1634-1924, Volume 2, By Milo Milton Quaife, 1924.

Wisconsin, Its History and Its People, 1634-1924, Volume 3, By Milo Milton Quaife, 1924.

Wisconsin, Its History and Its People, 1634-1924, Volume 4, By Milo Milton Quaife, 1924.