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Wisconsin Genealogy Resources

Libraries and Archives

Library Catalogs

• ArCat - Catalog of the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives providing information about manuscript and photograph collections, state and local government records, and audio recordings, and to manuscript collections belonging to the Wisconsin Historical Society and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research.
   
• Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids presents archival finding aids prepared and contributed by the following institutions: The University of Wisconsin Archives and Records Management Service, University of Wisconsin Memorial Library Department of Special Collections, Wisconsin Historical Society, and the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures.
   
• Family History Library Catalog - Wisconsin 
   
• LIBCAT: US-Wisconsin   A directory of library resources on the Internet.
   
• LibDex - The Library Index - Wisconsin   A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).
   
• MadCat - As the North American history library for the University of Wisconsin - Madison, the Wisconsin Historical Society Library has its books, pamphlets, newspapers, government publications and other published sources described in MadCat (the university's catalog).
   
• WISCAT - The Division for Libraries, Technology and Community Learning has facilitated resource sharing in Wisconsin for twenty years with the production of a statewide union catalog of library holdings called WISCAT. The current edition of WISCAT, one of the largest physical statewide union catalogs in the country, contains 7 million titles and more than 32 million holdings from over 1200 contributing libraries. The catalog contains material in all formats, including books, serials, video recordings, sound recordings and other audiovisual formats.

Libraries and Archives

• Academic Libraries in Wisconsin 
   
• American Geographical Society Library   Milwaukee
  Reference and research library devoted to the acquisition, analysis, preservation, and retrieval of the literature of geography, cartography, and related fields. Located at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library.
  
  
• Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids. Presents archival finding aids describing collections held at 19 repositories throughout Wisconsin. These finding aids describe unpublished primary resources held by the above institutions, and in some cases resources held by other institutions. They serve as a searchable access point to the archival holdings described. Archival holdings can include a variety of materials such as correspondence, diaries, maps, government records, film, photographs, and audio recordings.
   
• Circus World Museum: Robert L. Parkinson Library and Research Center  -  Baraboo, Wisconsin. Collections of paper, photographic and sound materials relating to circus life.
   
• Cofrin Library - University of Wisconsin-Green Bay . Includes Belgian-American Research Collection  and Local History and Genealogy 
   
• FamilySearch - Family History Centers in Wisconsin   A list of local LDS Family History Centers along with addresses and hours of operation. 
   
• Library-Archives  Wisconsin Historical Society
   
• Local History & Genealogical Reading Room, Library of Congress
   
• National Archives - Great Lakes Region
  7358 S. Pulaski Rd.
  Chicago, IL 60629-5898
  Phone: (773) 581-7816
  Fax: (773) 353-1294
  E-mail: archives@chicago.nara.gov
  Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin
   
• National Register of Historic Places
   
• Newberry Library | Wisconsin Genealogy Bibliography 
   
• Ozaukee County Collections
   
• PublicLibraries.com - Wisconsin 
   
• Repositories of Primary Sources: Wisconsin   A list of links to online resources from the Univ. of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives.
   
• Ryan, Carol Ward. Searching for Your Wisconsin Ancestors in the Wisconsin Libraries. 3rd ed. Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, 2001.
   
• University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Archives Genealogy.
   
• University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Genealogical Collections
   
• Vesterheim Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library  - Madison, Wisconsin
   
• Wisconsin Family History Centers  - A list of addresses, phone numbers and hours of operation from the Genealogy Home Page.
   
• Wisconsin Historical Society: Genealogy.
  
• Wisconsin Library and Library-related Web Sites
   
• Wisconsin Public Libraries