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The Acadians were French settlers of eastern Canada who were exiled from their land in the 1750s. The Cajuns are their descendants who settled in Louisiana.
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Link to website not currently available, but located on the "wayback machine" website.
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Share Your Research
Share genealogy papers, books, and data
Another immediate way to support the work of The Genealogy Center is to share your research. We welcome your contributions of papers, books, and disks of data. In print or in digital formats, your work will not only benefit great numbers of researchers, it will also be preserved for generations to come on our shelves and web pages. Whether it’s research articles, images of military veterans in your family history, completed books, indices to record groups large and small, or copies of the family record pages in your family Bible, all will find a good home in The Genealogy Center. Contributions can be mailed or sent electronically directly to The Genealogy Center.
[Located in Category: Libraries]
Genealogy Center
It is the second largest genealogy library in the US.
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Digital Map Collection
[Located in Category: Maps and Houses]
[Located in Category: Maps and Houses]
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
FREE ACCESS AT MANY MILWAUKEE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARIES - PAID: membership. Largest commercial genealogy website, huge collection of more than 14 billion records, including US, UK and Canadian censuses; birth marriage, death, military and digitized books and city directories.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
Search for your family in Ancestry.com complete 1940 U.S. Census index—for FREE. Almost 9 out of 10 Americans have a relative in the 1940 Census. Simply start by entering a name and see who you can discover.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
FREE ACCESS AT MANY MILWAUKEE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARIES - PAID: membership. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Birth - online records from Milwaukee Courthouse: Births, 1839-1911 (823,413)
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
FREE ACCESS AT MANY MILWAUKEE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARIES - PAID: membership. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Death - online records from Milwaukee Courthouse: Deaths, 1854-1911, (426,970)
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
FREE ACCESS AT MANY MILWAUKEE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARIES - PAID: membership. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., Marriage - online records from Milwaukee Courthouse: Marriages, 1838-1911
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Arkiv Digital digitized parish registers. Subscription required. Available at the Family History Centers.
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Digital Archives (University of Bergen, Norway), includes church, census, probate, emigration records and much more
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[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
Available in Wisconsin, through your local library online database collection. Select Browse by Subject - Genealogy. Access: Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers, HeritageQuest Online, History Reference Center, Military & Government Collection, Newspaper Source Plus, Newspapers.com
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Database of Archival Indexing System in Pozan
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and also at: https://bhgsbc.org/
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3017 passenger lists for the years 1920 - 1939
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WI and IL upcoming genealogical events
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Immigrant Database
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Census Links is a growing catalog of links to worldwide transcriptions of census, tax lists, birth, death, marriage and military records, all freely available to help with your genealogy research.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
African American
[Located in Category: Ethnic - African American]
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"Czech Genealogy for Beginners" Blog for those who are interested in Czech genealogy, who have ancestors in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Click on "Czech Birth Matrika Templates " for google doc document of translated headers of archive records.
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Rodokmen.nase-koreny.cz by Blanka Lednicka - CZECH (Right click - and select Translate into English)
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Soupis Poddanych Podle Viry z Roku 1651 - online pdf books from the National Archives in Czech Republic; click on detail, then click on E-kniha ke stazeni zde - to download pdf. Available for Bohemia only. For further information: http://czechgenealogy.nase-koreny.cz/2018/09/serfs-register-according-to-their-faith.html and http://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Czech_Republic_Census
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Two research rooms: I. Central research room: modern collections and II. The research room of the 1st department in Prague 6 — Dejvice: land records, cadastral map records (land register documents for Bohemia).
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Archive links are not up to date on the page, but the map is very accurate to locate the correct archive. Plzen archive link not updated to http://www.portafontium.cz ; SOA v Praze archive link not updated to http://www.soapraha.cz
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Including links to city archives of: Prague City, Ostrava City, Brno City and Plzen City.
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Parish registers area: Jihomoravský (South Moravian) Region, Zlínský (Zlin) Region and Vysocina Region - excluding the former districts Pelhrimov and Havlíckuv Brod -- (not online - cadastral map records (land register documents for Moravia and Silesia))
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Parish registers area: City of Prague
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Parish registers area: Ústecký (Usti nad Labem) Region and Liberecký (Liberec) Region
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Parish registers area: Moravskoslezský (Moravian-Silesian) Region and Olomoucký (Olomouc) Region - NOTE: digital archive updated on 31 August 2017 from http://vademecum.archives.cz/vademecum/AppMenu.action/
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Parish registers area: Plzenský (Pilsen) Region and Karlovarský (Karlovy Vary) Region
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Parish registers area: Stredoceský (Central) Region
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Map of Churches that have been digitalized (as of 19 July 2019): click on Mapa stredoceskych farnosti.pdf
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Parish registers area: Jihoceský (South) Region - including the former district Pelhrimov
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Parish registers area: Královéhradecký (Hradec Kralove) Region and Pardubický (Pardubice) Region - complete with the former district Havlíckuv Brod. Zamrsk recently updated their website, and now has direct access to read the digital records online. (Note, many of these digitalized records are also available at FamilySearch.org)
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[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
by Gabi Vcislo This is an updated guide how to generate links for your found genealogy records:
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Finding Czech Parish Records Online: Moravia-Silesia Region by Katherine Vasicek Challis, created July 2013: How to navigate the Land/Regional Archives of Opava website (vademecum.archives.cz) to find a parish record
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by Michaela Gehenna Hornáková, created July 2018. Guide to using Zmarsk regional archive and list of what is available at the district archives. Note, many of these instructions are now obsolete.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
pdf charts with English translations of the census forms for 1857, 1869, 1880, 1890, 1900, 1910, and 1921
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
An interactive map from MZA.com with links to parish records from only Southern Moravia in Brno archives.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
An interactive map with links to parish records from only Plzen area in Plzen archives.
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If this link is not opening the parish map, select Folder Tree, then Maps and technical drawings, SRA Trebon, Varia, and Map of the parish districts of the evangelical churches in Czech lands (1937)
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Images of Jewish Birth, Marriages and Death for the entire Czech Republic. Formerly kept online at http://www.badatelna.eu/fond/1073 are now available at https://vademecum.nacr.cz/vademecum/ Please see this pdf link, for how to use the vademecum archive: https://familysearch.brightspotcdn.com/06/1a/b5833afd48ee8cd14c4bfe90b9e0/finding-jewish-records-at-the-czech-national-mckenna-cooper.pdf
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20 page document: Sources For Genealogical Research At The Austrian War Archives In Vienna (Kriegsarchiv Wien) by Christoph Tepperberg (Director of the Kriegsarchiv) originally at http://oesta.gv.at/DocView.axd?CobId=29263
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Excellent source to help understand and research military records. In addition to providing a history of your ancestor's military career, these records can sometimes answer basic genealogical questions, such as where and when a person was born. Information provided on how to research the Grundbuchblätter Diverse. Detailed information about conscription.
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Records are in two alphabetical sequences. Military personnel sheets for soldiers of the Austrian army born in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia (now Czech Republic). Includes soldiers born approximately 1820-1864, some earlier. Each is arranged alphabetically by surname and given name. Data shown includes year of birth, place of birth, a personal description, and record of service. Family relationships or names are sometimes shown in these records.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Czech American TV website. Genealogy Map - Search for surnames, and the results will be displayed on a map of the Czech Republic, showing the distribution of where these surnames are found on the map.
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Kde Jsme Click on "Seznamy" in right top corner and then choose the letter in the left column for given names (Jména) or Surnames (Príjmení) and it will list all the names which are in use now in Czech Republic.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Online Database (CGSI Member Only) Leo Baca’s Czech Immigration Passenger Lists; many digitalized books and family histories online
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
Historical collection of 18th and 19th century maps of North America and South America.
[Located in Category: Maps and Houses]
Birth, marriage, & death register databases for many parishes in the counties of Halland, Skane (Malmohus, Kristianstad), and Bleking. Free.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Swedish]
Diccionario Geográfico, Histórico y Biográfico de Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Spanish language dictionary of geographical, historical and biographical entries of Mexico
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
Digital Medier 1881 (Detailed map of Norway)
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Norwegian]
DISByt - from the DIS computer Genealogy Society of Sweden. Swedish genealogists have submitted family trees to the online database DISBYT. Website partially translated into English. Subscription required - about $22/per year.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Swedish]
KnowYourDNA - 3 Ways a DNA Test Can Help You Find Relatives
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KnowYourDNA - How to Download Your DNA Data from every company
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KnowYour DNA - Types of DNA Testing
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Website and Organization Management Tools for Non-Programmers.
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Search for your relative's arrival in our database of 51 million+ passenger records
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[Located in Category: Ethnic - Norwegian]
Links to Catholic archdioceses and dioceses websites throughout the world.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
[Located in Category: Libraries]
FREE: free registration allows access to online documents. Nonprofit arm of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church). The site includes more than 1,500 historical record collections, more than 3.5 billion names in searchable databases, and more than 177,000 digitized books. Locate your local Family History Center. Search for digitalized online records in - Search RECORDS, Search CATALOG and Search IMAGES.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Parish Finder
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Church Books updated in April 2021 and School collections updated in May 2017, Census Records updated in Oct 2020: Church Books, 1552-1981; Censuses and Inhabitant Registers, 1800-1990; School Registers, 1799-1953; Land Records, 1450-1889
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At FamilySearch.org can also access the Family History Library Catalog, Ancestral File, International Genealogical Index and microfilm records, books, etc. for Mexican vital records and documents. Includes the 1930 Mexican census.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Norwegian]
Church Books updated in April 2021 and Census Records updated in Jun 2016: Church Books, 1592-1935; Census 1869
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Swedish parish records available online for free. Also available at Family History Centers.
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[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
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Foundation for East European Family History Studies
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Foundation for East European Family History Studies
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Slovak]
PAID: membership. Began with a focus on US and Irish records, has since added a large collection for US and Canada. Site's resources include digital records, church records, military records, newspapers, passenger lists and censuses.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
Geographic.org
[Located in Category: Immigration-Ships-Ports-Flags]
FREE: basic membership. PAID: All-Access membership. Online source for searching US military records.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
Spanish language web site presenting a wealth of information on Mexican and Spanish Records.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
The GPS is used to create sound, credible genealogical proof statements, and gives genealogists a standard to measure conclusions against.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
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PAID: membership. Lage collection of digitized US newspapers, more than 6,500 titles from all 50 states, dating from 1690 to 2010.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
Map of counties in Poland, and links to other sites.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
Parish Finder Free site, requiring registration to use. Has excellent gazetteer for helping identify German/Czech name of village and its associated parish (for church record books). Especially useful to determine what parishes a village belonged to over the years.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
[Located in Category: Cemeteries]
Atlas des Deutschen Reichs - Atlas of the German Empire
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
Follow "German Girl in America" and all things German (including Milwaukee's German Fest), through Karen's blog and facebook postings.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
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Brigham Young University set of helpful guides on Kurrent
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
Sutterlin and altdeutsch
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
Write your name in Suetterlin
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
Index of German-Polish and Polish-German names of the localities in Poland and Russia
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
To search former German town name, to find its current town name. The JewishGen Gazetter was the former JewishGen ShtetlSeeker.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
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[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
By Robert J. Paulson - German Bohemian Heritage Society Founder. Many resources including books, articles, videos.
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[Located in Category: Cemeteries]
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A glossary of archaic medical terms, diseases, and causes of death with modern definitions. Spanish medical terms with English translations.
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[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
WI CEMETERY LINKS
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[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
[Located in Category: Maps and Houses]
PAID: membership at Ancestry.com World Explorer subscription. FREE ACCESS AT MANY MILWAUKEE AREA PUBLIC LIBRARIES
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[Located in Category: Libraries]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
FREE: has census records. Available through BadgerLink (http://badgerlink.dpi.wi.gov/) in Wisconsin, through your local library website online database collection with library card. Select "I'm a .... genealogist". Access: HeritageQuest Online; and also Newspapers.com , Archive of Wisconsin Newspapers, History Reference Center, Military & Government Collection, Newspaper Source Plus
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
Lynn Turner, bilingual graduate from Brigham Young University has a degree in Family History and Genealogy. He specializes in Latin America and Spain. Lynn Turner used to host a blog in which he answerd questions in both languages. He has also been videotaped for RootsTV presenting research information in Spanish and English.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
National Mexican web site for geography, maps, statistics, "ranchos", locations etc.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
Google Books: History of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: From Prehistoric Times to the Present Date ..(1881). United States: Milwaukee Genealogical Society. 1663 pages
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
How to trace your ancestors in Norway, published by the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Norwegian]
17,000+ Passenger Manifests in 16 Volumes plus numerous other passengers listed in Special Projects.
[Located in Category: Immigration-Ships-Ports-Flags]
97,094 marriages in index
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
[Located in Category: Libraries]
[Located in Category: Libraries]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
Historical maps. Free.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Swedish]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
jpg map of Czech Republic - Kraj (Regions) and Okres (Districts)
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Just zoom in and click on the village in the map - and there will be a window with all historical maps for that village. Stable Cadastral Maps: [ "otisky" - are the BASE MAPS with building number (black) ] and [ "skica" - are the STABLE CADASTRAL MAPS with house owners name and house numbers (red) (example N.4). ]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Note: selecting the "magnifying glass" is a direct link to the "skica" cadastral map AND selecting the "UZK bar" will show maps what THIS WEBSITE has available for the village. (Using the historical map link listed above this one, may show more maps available for a village, than shown through using this link. So, check both historical map links to see what is available for your village!)
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
GeoPortal.gov.cz - current CADASTRAL map
Then select:
Mapy
Vrstvy
-Popisky
-Katastraini mapy
--Katastr nemovitosti
-Ortofotomapy CUZK (aktualni)
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Helmuth Schneider's Power Point presentation from June 27, 2015 at Caldwell, TX "The Stable Cadastral Map System of the Czech Republic" at Texas Czech Genealogical Society website.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Muller's Survey map (Bohemia 1720 and Moravia 1716): 1st Military Survey map (Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia 1764 -1768 and 1780 - 1783); 2nd Military Survey map (Bohemia, Moravia 1836 - 1852); 3rd Military Survey map; (adding) Stabile cadaster
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Type name of village, press search button - Will be displayed: village name, district name, region name; and location on map will be shown. Then continue to zoom in to see the houses with house numbers. Select Change map, be sure to check out From 19th century (2nd Military Survey 1836-1852) and With photos.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Czech]
Type name of village, press search button - Will be displayed: village name, district name, region name; and location on map will be shown. Then continue to zoom in to see the houses with house numbers. Select Change map, be sure to check out From 19th century (2nd Military Survey 1836-1852) and With photos.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Slovak]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Libraries]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
Search the online Meyers Gazeteer.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - German]
Link to "Milw 1870 US Fed. Census", listed in the left menu column on this website. Supplement to the 1870 US Federal Census of Business Owners missed on the 1870 US Federal Census in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Milwaukee City Neighborhoods Map by UWM
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
1894 Milwaukee Sanborn Insurance Maps - Interactive - by American Geographical Society Library in Milwaukee, WI
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
1910 Milwaukee Sanborn Insurance Maps - Interactive - by American Geographical Society Library in Milwaukee, WI
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
MCGS normally has monthly "in person" beginner genealogy classes at the Milwaukee Central Public Library (MPL). Currently these classes are online, until the meeting rooms are available again at the library. Please view this short video of Margaret Sandoval exploring the "Humanities" research room at the MPL.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Genealogy resources in the Frank P. Zeidler Humanities Room at Milwaukee Central Public Library, downtown Milwaukee
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Link to "New Materials at MPL", listed in the left menu column on this website. MPL provides MCGS with the list of new reference books at the library. These items have recently been added to the Frank P. Zeidler Humanities Room at the Milwaukee Central Library, located at 814 W Wisconsin Avenue. They may only be used in this room. However, copies of the books may be available through your local library's interlibrary loan service.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic Cemeteries - Online database. Includes cemeteries in Pleasant Prairie, Mequon and Waukesha.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Google Map of all known cemeteries in Milwaukee County, with links to many cemetery websites. Click on the "icon button" on the map, for more information.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Link to "Milwaukee Cemeteries", listed in left menu column on this website.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Chart at Milwaukee Catholic Archdioceses website.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Genealogical Research - Vital Records, Real Estate - Genealogy - They have birth records from the 1850s to present, death records from 1872 to present, and marriage records from the 1830s to present. Please call 414-278-4027 to schedule your research appointment, or email RODVitalRecords@milwaukeecountywi.gov Current rules: https://county.milwaukee.gov/files/county/register-of-deeds/Documents/GenealogyRules20221.pdf
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Link to "Milwaukee Marriages", listed in left menu column on this website. Additional marriages records not found in Milwaukee County courthouse - dated 1822-1876.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Additional marriages records not found in Milwaukee County courthouse - dated 1822-1876. Link to actual certificate images at Milwaukee Public Library online database.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
[Located in Category: Societies - Historical]
Genealogical and Historical Research Collections, Naturalization Papers 1836 – May 25, 1941; etc.
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
In the 1930s many Milwaukee addresses were changed. Check the online street conversions, made available online through the Milwaukee Historical Society,
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
Index to Polish immigrants to Milwaukee, plus births, marriages, deaths, etc.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
FREE: basic membership; PAID: premium and above membership. 5 billion historical records, 34 million family trees and 200 million photos. Based in Israel. Genealogy software available in 40 languages.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
[Located in Category: Libraries]
Index of Native American Resources on the Internet
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Other]
Genealogy and Local History
[Located in Category: Libraries]
Searchable maps showing farms in Norway
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Norwegian]
Passenger Lists and Emigrant Ships from Norway
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Norwegian]
Genealogy of Jalisco, Zacatecas and Aguascalientes
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]
Includes Sunset Ridge Memorial Park in Kenosha
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
Ellis Island, Castle Garden and other ports, US Census (Enumeration Districts), Canada/UK Census, Street Names Changes (including Milwaukee), Vital Records, etc.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
Online gazetteer, great reference to find Swedish place names. Free. In Swedish.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Swedish]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
PERSI is the premier subject index for genealogy and local history periodicals, and is produced by the staff of The Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library. This valuable resource provides more than 3 million citations to readily-available periodical sources.
[Located in Category: Genealogy - General Web Sites]
Examples of photos, to help aid in dating photographs.
[Located in Category: Misc-DatingPhotos,MedicalTerms]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
Scans from the state archives of Lublinie, Kraśniku, Opolu, Poznaniu, Koninie, Siedlcach, Szczecinie i Warszawie (branches in Grodzisku Mazowieckim i Otwocku)
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
PGSA Research Directory offers a number of databases which include: an index for the obituaries found in the Dziennik Chicagoski; indexes of parish Jubilee Books from Polish parishes in a number of U.S. cities; an index of insurance claims for the Polish Roman Catholic Union of America; marriages at Polish parishes in Chicago. The Polish Museum of America Library, Chicago, IL, is the repository for the various genealogical references of PGSA.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
The Internet's Most Comprehensive Source of U.S. Political Biography (or, The Web Site that Tells Where the Dead Politicians are Buried)
[Located in Category: Cemeteries]
[Located in Category: Societies -Genealogy]
Online index of baptisms, marriages and deaths
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
The Portage County Cemetery Locator lists over 43,000 names located in 67 Portage County cemeteries. The database is an update and continuation of Wayne Allen and Alta Guyant's Index of the Cemeteries of Portage County [Stevens Point: Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society, [19??], housed at the Portage County Public Library. The Guyant Index was completed in the mid-1970's. The Cemetery Locator database was completed in mid-November of 1999. The earliest identifiable birth date in the Cemetery Locator is that of Mary Crane, 1771 - 1872, in the First Belmont (Kent) cemetery.
[Located in Category: Cemeteries]
[Located in Category: Societies - Historical]
Poznan Region Marriage Indexing Project for 1800-1899
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Polish]
[Located in Category: Wisconsin Related Web Sites]
Norwegian Historical Data Centre, includes census, parish register, land register 1886 & more. Click on British flag for English.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Norwegian]
[Located in Category: Milwaukee Co -Research]
New Mexico State University at Las Cruces, Rio Grande Historical Collection. An extensive collection of materials from New Mexico, Chihuahua and Durango, including the microfilms of and index to the Archivo Historico del Arzobispado de Durango.
[Located in Category: Ethnic - Mexican]