Background Sources
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AudioTapes.com - Genealogical Lectures on Cassette Tapes
- Wisconsin
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Beginning Your Family History - 10 Steps to take
when you begin to research your family history -
Wisconsin Historical Society
- Buenker, John D. The Progressive Era, 1893-1914.
Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society History of
Wisconsin Series - vol. 4.
- Current, Richard N. Exploration to Statehood.
Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society History of
Wisconsin Series - vol. 2.
- Danky, James P. Genealogical Research: An
Introduction to the Resources of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin. Madison: State Historical
Society of Wisconsin, 1986.
- Draper, Lyman Copeland, and Reuben Gold Thwaites,
eds. Collections of the State Historical Society of
Wisconsin. Madison,
Wisconsin: The Society, n.d. (twenty-one volumes, with
the last being an every-volume index). The scope of the
volumes covers every aspect of Wisconsin's creation,
from official documents, census enumeration, and the
very earliest baptism and marriage records at Mackinac.
- Glad, Paul W. War, a New Era and Depression,
1914-1940. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society
History of Wisconsin Series, vol. 5.
- Gregory, John G. Southwestern Wisconsin: A
History of Old Crawford County, 4 vols. Chicago:
S.J. Clark Pub. Co., 1932.
- Hansen, James L. on Wisconsin in vol. 2 of
Genealogical Research: Methods and Sources, edited
by Kenn Stryker-Rodda. Washington, D.C.: American
Society of Genealogists, 1983.
- Herrick, Linda M. Wisconsin Genealogical Research.
2d edition. Janesville, Wis.: Origins, 1998.
- Nesbit, Robert C. Urbanization and
Industrialization, 1873-1893. Madison: Wisconsin
Historical Society History of Wisconsin Series - vol.
3.
- Nesbit, Robert C. Wisconsin: A History. 2nd
edition. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society,
University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. A concise
one-volume history.
- Ryan, Carol Ward. Searching for Your Wisconsin
Ancestors in the Wisconsin Libraries. 2nd ed. Green
Bay, Wisconsin: Ability Printing, 1988.
- Ryan, Carol Ward. Searching for Your Wisconsin
Ancestors in the Wisconsin Libraries. Madison,
Wisconsin: Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, 2001.
- Smith, Alice E. From Exploration to Statehood.
Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society History of
Wisconsin Series - vol. 1.
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Genealogical Research: An Introduction to the Resources
of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Madison,
Wisconsin: The Society, 1986.
- Thompson, William F. Continuity and Change,
1940-1965. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society
History of Wisconsin Series, vol. 6.
- Wilson, Victoria. Genealogist's Guide to ...
Grawn, Michigan: Kinseeker Publications, 1987. (to
east central Wisconsin; to northeastern Wisconsin; to
northwestern Wisconsin; to southeastern Wisconsin; to
southwestern Wisconsin; and to west central Wisconsin.
Include vital records locations, libraries, genealogical
societies, historical societies and museums, newspapers,
and books and pamphlets for each county in the region).
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Wisconsin Handbook, 1856. Ancestry.com. Given
territorial status in 1836 and granted statehood in
1848, Wisconsin grew in population from 300,000 to
775,000 in just the first ten years as a state. This
database is a reprint of a handbook for the state
originally published in 1856. It provides descriptions
of the public lands, educational opportunities,
commercial statistics, and counties in that year. It
also includes information regarding the 1855 state
census and a comparison with it and the 1850 federal
census. For researchers of Wisconsin ancestors, this
database can illuminate historical and geographic
aspects of the area not commonly known.
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