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Outagamie County
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Area Research Center
Family History Center
  • Appleton Wisconsin 2nd Ward
    425 W Parkridge Ave
    Appleton, Outagamie, Wisconsin, United States
    Phone: 920-733-5358
    Hours: T 9am-8pm; W 5pm-8pm; F 9am-1pm
  • Family History Library Holdings (Outagamie County)
Libraries
Museums

Bibliography

Biographies, Family Histories, and Names

  • Allen, Betty Jahsman. Descendants of Karl Ludwig Schewe. 1999.

  • Commemorative Biographical Record of the Fox River Valley Counties of Brown, Outagamie and Winnebago: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families. La Crosse, Wisconsin: Brookhaven Press, 2001.

  • Fox Valley Genealogical Society. Index and Reprint of "Family History Project: a Collection of Fox River Valley Family Histories": As Originally Printed by the Post Crescent Newspaper, May 28, 1998 for Outagamie County, Wisconsin. Appleton, WI: Fox Valley Genealogical Society, 2000.

  • Fraser, Jeffrey D. Nichlaus Pomes & Margaret Pomes Ellenbecker of Outagamie County, Wisconsin. Rockford, Ill: [J. Fraser, 2006.

  • Hardacker, Keith W. Hardacker Family. 1987.

  • Spencer, Elihu. The Pioneers of Outagamie County, Wisconsin: Containing the Records of the Outagamie County Pioneer Association, Also a Biographical and Historical Sketch of Some of the Earliest Settlers of the County and Their Families, Their Children, and Grand-Children. Salem, Mass: Higginson Book Co, 1998.

  • Wunrow, D. Wunrow-Wundrow, A Family of Wisconsin: Calumet, Outagamie, Wood Counties. Greenfield, Wisconsin: D.  Wunrow, 1983.

Cemeteries

  • Crane, Marjorie. St. Patrick Cemetery, Town of Kaukauna, Outagamie County, Wisconsin. s.l: s.n, 2005.

  • Fox Valley Genealogical Society. Cemetery Location Index & Maps, Northeast Wisconsin. 1980s.

  • Kaukauna Area Historical Society. [Kaukauna Area Cemetery Survey. 2008.

Census Records and Indexes

Church Records

  • St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church (Center, Wis.). St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Town of Center, Wisconsin: 125th Anniversary, 1864-1989. Center, Wis.?: The Church, 1989.

Court Records

Deaths and Obituaries

  • Fox Valley Genealogical Society. Obituary File of the Post Crescent, Appleton, Wisconsin, January 1, 1979 to December 31, 1983. Appleton, Wis: Fox Valley Genealogical Society, 1985.

Directories

Ethnic Groups

Forums, Mailing Lists, and Message Boards

History

  • Appleton Public Library Local History Collection

  • Ryan, Thomas Henry, and Henry D. Ryan. History of Outagamie County, Wisconsin Being a General Survey of Outagamie County History Including a History of the Cities, Towns and Villages Throughout the County, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Chicago: Goodspeed Historical Association, 1911.

Land Records

Maps, Gazetteers, and Atlases

Military Records

Miscellaneous Materials

  • Zuehlke, William H.  Papers, 1922-1963 and undated. Papers of Zuehlke, an Appleton, Wis., resident active in the Outagamie County Republican Party; including correspondence, genealogies of the Jones and the Farquharson families, and records of Camp 3 of the United Spanish War Veterans and Post 133 of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Naturalization Records

Newspapers and Periodicals

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

Projects

Researchers

Societies

  • Spencer, Elihu. Record of the Pioneers of Outagamie County, Wisconsin: Also an Appendix Containing the Minutes and Records of the Pioneer Association Since Our Annual Meeting of 1895. Appleton, Wis: Post Publishing Co, 1898.

Towns and Cities

  • Konkle, Pat. A History of the Town of Freedom. Freedom, Wis: Town of Freedom, 2005.

Transportation, Business and Industry

Vital Records

Web Sources