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The following resources are online, but are not part of the USGenWeb collection for the most part. Please don’t forget to visit the Wisconsin USGenWeb Archives for Biographies, Obituaries and Vital Records. The Archives are broken down into individual counties.

• 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 adoption and birthparent research. Adoption.org and Cyndi’s List are only two of the excellent sites available to help you with your search.

• Rootsweb Message Boards for Unknown County

• The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin ~ 1901
• The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin ~ 1907
• Biography of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Rootsweb Message Boards for Unknown County
• Ship Captian's Biography Index
• The Wisconsin Biography Project
• Wisconsin Biographies Project

Cemeteries & Memorials

• WIGenWeb Project Tombstone Photographs Pages
• Using the Social Security Death Index (with interactive search)
• The Tombstone Transcription Project for Wisconsin
• USGenWeb Archives - check the individual counties in the archives for cemetery records.
• The Political Graveyard “The website that tells you where the dead politicians are buried”
• Find A Grave - Final resting places of notable people
• International Jewish Cemetery Project
• Wisconsin Funeral Homes & Cemeteries
• Wisconsin Law Enforcement Memorial (online memorial)
• National Fallen Firefighters Foundation
• The Officer Down Memorial Page

Church Records

• Baptist Roots Homepage
• The Lutheran Church in Wisconsin and America, 1846-1987
• Seventh Day Baptist General Conference of the U.S. & Canada - located in Janesville, Rock County

City Directories

• U.S. City Directories on Microfilm in the Microform Reading Room

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Counties

Court Records

• The Circuit Court Automation Program (CCAP)
• The Genealogist and the Courthouse - Using Wisconsin and Michigan UP Courthouses For Genealogy

Genealogical Groups and Societies

• Sons of the American Revolution ~ Elisha Raymond Chapter
• Wisconsin Historical Society
• Wisconsin Society of Mayflower Descendants
• Wisconsin Society Sons of the American Revolution
• Wisconsin Lineage Links -Links to Wisconsin's Heritage & Lineage Societies
• Wisconsin State Genealogical Society
• Area Research Center Network
• List of Wisconsin Historical Societies
• Wisconsin Lineage Links 
• Blue Hills Genealogical Society - Barron County
• La Crosse Area Genealogical Society
• Central New York Genealogical Society ~ Many thousands of Central New York folks settled in Wisconsin prior to 1860.
• Dodge/Jefferson Counties Genealogical Society, Watertown, WI

History

• AHGP
• Argonauts of California by C. W. Haskins 1890. Haskins is best known for the Pioneer Index, a list of 35,000 pioneers who had arrived in California by December 31 1849. Lists consist of Pioneer Associations and Passengers from Overland & by Sea.
• An Illustrated History of the State of Wisconsin, Charles R. Tuttle, 1875
• Local History & Genealogical Reading Room, Library of Congress
• Stories of the Badger State by Reuben Gold Thwaites
• Virtual Silurian Reef -Geologic History of Wisconsin
• The Wisconsin Capitol -- Official Guide and History
• WLHN

Immigration & Naturalization

Institutions ~ Wisconsin State

Land

• Wisconsin BLM Land Patents - This database was extracted from data generously provided by the Bureau of Land Management. It included every homestead, mining and timber claim, as well as cash sales and Indian allotments. Not included are parcels still owned by the U. S. Government, including the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Forest Service, and the National Park System.
  Similar Databases:
  The Official Land Patent Records - pre-1908 homestead and cash entry patents from the Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office (GLO) Automated Records Project
  Wisconsin Land Records -Rootsweb Interactive Search (A simple interface to the above GLO database)
• Rootsweb Message Boards for Unknown County

• Local History & Genealogical Reading Room, Library of Congress
• National Register of Historic Places
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
• Wisconsin Historical Society
• Wisconsin Library and Library-related Web Sites

• Genealogy HelpList for Wisconsin
• Books We Own - Wisconsin Lookup Resources

Marketplace - Rootsweb Classified Ads for Wisconsin

Migrations ~ Wisconsin

Military

Miscellaneous

• Golden Rule Genealogy - Joan Benner has a page with a collection of links she has transcribed for various WI counties
• Topliste Alace dedicated to Alsace genealogy websites
  

Newspapers

• Heritage Microfilm
• Wisconsin Press

Native American Research

Obituaries

• Rootsweb Message Boards for Unknown County
• USGenWeb Archives - check the individual counties in the archives for obituaries.
• Nieves Obits - J R Nieves Obituary Indexing Project

Orphan Train Project 

• This Orphan Train project is a state project of the WIGenWeb Project. The Webmaster is Tina Vickery. Our Orphan Train Research person is Clark Kidder. Mary Saggio is our able transcription assistant.

Penny Postcards from Wisconsin ~ a USGenWeb Archives Site

• Van der Heiden Family History  
• Zimmerman & Zimmermann in Wisconsin
• Brian’s Root Cellar  

Photographs

Post Offices by County

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

Reunions - Rootsweb Calendar for Wisconsin

Queries, Message Boards & Surnames

• Rootsweb Message Boards for Unknown County
• All Wisconsin Counties
• Wisconsin Native American Queries
• American Civil War Queries -Wisconsin
• GenConnect Surname Index
• Rootsweb Surname List
• Query One Online - Wisconsin Queries
• Genealogy.com’s GenForum Wisconsin Genealogy Forum
• USGenWeb Kidz Project Queries
• WorldGenWeb Kidz Project Queries

• The BMD Project ~ from Cradle to Grave
• Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services - Genealogy Research Section
• Wisconsin Genealogical Research Service

• Rootsweb Message Boards for Unknown County