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ETHNIC BOOKS

     How To Research American Indian Blood Lines
A Manual on Indian Genealogical Research
  • by Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, an Indian historian and researcher.
  • published by American Genealogical Lending Library, Bountiful Utah 84011-0329
  • ISBN 0-913985-01-5
  •      OJIBWE, Waasa Inaabidaa - We Look In All Directions
    This is the story of the Anishenaabe or Ojibwe people, who have lived on the North American continent for many thousands of years. Beginning in the dim past and continuing to the present.
  • author: Thomas Peacock, a member of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, is an Associate Professor of Education at the University of MN-Duluth.
  • Illustrated by Marlene Wisuri
  • publ.Afton Historical Society Press Afton, MN

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    FAMILY GENEALOGIES, STORIES & LEGENDS

         A COLLECTION OF NORTHWOODS NOSTALGIA
    From the Pages of the Lakeland Times. by Joyce Laabs,
  • Vol. 1, 181 pages, softcover, publ. 1978
  • Vol. 2 189 pages, softcover published 1980
  •     ART LAHA--A NORTHWOODS LEGEND.by Dorothy Uthe
    Dorothy gathered information for this book through interviews with Art and his family of Wincester.
  • Published in 1993 by Anundsen Publishing Company, in Decorah, IA
  •     BLACK MAGIC AND STOLEN TIMBER, by Yvonne M. Madden
    Dedicated to the authors father, Milton DeLoney, the great-grandson of Na-Kwa-Kwe-os-i-no-kwe
  • published by Vonnie Publishing Books, Wausau WI
  • ISBN 0-9619080-0-9
  •     CRAB LAKE MEMORIES: A collection of Crab Lake and Presque Isle
         nostalgia, by Liza Tuttle
    Appendices:Crab Lake maps, Foerster Journal and Crab Lake Manifesto
  • copyright 1990 135pages photos
  •     CRUNCHING GRAVEL: A Wisconsin Boyhood in the Thirties
         by Robert Peters
    A strong, brutually honest memoir of a boyhood in the '30's
  • A North Coast Book published by The University of Wisconsin Press copyright 1988 128pg
  •      FROM SOUP TO MOSTLY NUTS , Stories from the Jones family.,
         By Dorothy Jones Uthe
    The Jones family from Eagle River once owned Pickerel Lake Resort and a lot of the memories are from there.
  • Copyright 1990 and printed by The Anundsen Publishing Company, 108 Washington St., Decorah, IA 52101
  •     NELL'S STORY: A Woman from Eagle River
         by Nell Peters with Robert Peters
    Nell's Story is as raw as a Wisconsin winter; its bright bold honesty chills to the bone
  • The University of Wisconsin Press, copyright 1995, hardcover 161 pages
  •     WOODLAND WHISPERS: tales and legends of the Great
        Wisconsin Northwoods
    compiled by the Anvil Lake Property Owners Association as a community service.
  • the association c.199? 50 pages, ill., maps, 28cm.

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    HISTORY BOOKS: TOWN & COUNTY


        BOULDER JUNCTION:the early years, 1880s to 1950s
    text and layout, Shirley Doolittle; editor, Greg Linder. Doolittle, Shirley.
  • Friends of the Library, c1996. 190 pages, maps; 23 x 27 cm.
  •     "EASY GOING" WISCONSIN'S NORTHWOODS:
        Vilas and Oneida Counties
    Michael J. Dunn, III; ill. by William T, Pope
  • Tamarack Press, c1978, 155 pages, ill., maps; 22cm.
  •     COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF THE UPPER
         WISCONSIN COUNTIES:
    Waupaca, Portage, Wood, Marathon, Oneida, Vilas, Langlade and Shawano
  • by Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co. 1895.
  •     EAGLE RIVER CENTENNIAL, 1857-1957
    Vilas County News-Review.
  • The News-Review, 1957. [40] p. in 2 v.: ill. , 40 cm.
  •     HISTORY OF LINCOLN, ONEIDA AND VILAS COUNTIES,WI
    compiled by George O.Jones, Norman S. McVean.
  • H.C.Cooper, Jr. & Co., 1924 787 pages, ill., ports. 26cm. This book has over 500 pages of biographies.
  • To view an Index of Biograpies included in this book ...click
  •      LAC DU FLAMBEAU, 1854-1954 CENTENNIAL YEAR
    44 pages publ. 1954 by the Lac du Flambeau School
        PLUM LAKE by David Nyweide
    illustrated by Charlotte Schaeffer. Badger Books, c1999. 94pages, map, 22cm
         REFLECTIONS OF LAC DU FLAMBEAU
    An Illustrated History of Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, 1745-1995
  • Copiled by Ben Guthrie, Written and Edited by Michael J. Goc; 159 pages
  • New Past Press Inc. ISBN 0-938627-26-0
  •      SAINT GERMAIN, A MESSAGE FROM THE PAST
    History of the Area
  • compiled by Ruth Hessen Komassa
  • available at the St. Germain Chamber of Commerce
  •      SAINT GERMAIN, ANOTHER MESSAGE FROM THE PAST
    History of the Area
  • compiled by Ruth Hessen Komassa
  • available at the St. Germain Chamber of Commerce
  •     VILAS COUNTY, HEADWATERS TO WISCONSIN:
    a historical reflection of the towns in Vilas County, Wisconsin
  • produced by the Vilas County Chamber of Commerce 1998, 39 pages, ill., maps; 28cm

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    REFERENCE BOOKS

        BIRTH, MARRIAGE & DEATH INDEXES
    for The Times & The Minocqua Times (newspapers) 1891-1926
  • by The Lakeland Area Genealogical Society, P.O.Box 308, Minocqua WI 54548-0308
  • published in 1999; 65 pages
  • LOOK-UPS: Please put Vilas Look-Up in the subject line.
  •     CEMETERIES OF VILAS COUNTY, Vols.1 & 2
    Transcribed 1995/96 by author/publisher Rose Van Noy
  • Both volumes are available at the Eagle River Library, The State Historical Society of Wisconsin and possibly other libraries.
  • Please put "VILAS LOOK-UP" in the subject line of email requests.
  •      INDEX TO VILAS COUNTY WISCONSIN MARRIAGES, 1890-1907
    Compiled by Judy Vezzetti; proofread by members of the Lakeland Area Genealobical Society; appendix by Barry Christopher Noonan
  • State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2001, 20 leaves; 28cm.
  •     LAKELAND AREA CEMETERY TOMBSTONE INVENTORY,1996
    Includes townships of Hazelhurst, Lake Tomahawk, Minocqua and Woodruff, Oneida County. These townships are close to the Vilas/Oneida County line. Currently out-of-print, with author considering a second printing. It is available at the Minocqua Public Library and the Wisconsin Historical Society.
  • published by Lakeland Area Genealogical Soc., P.O. Box 308, Minocqua WI 54548
  • Please put "VILAS LOOK-UP" in the subject line of email requests.


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