Wisconsin Genealogy Resources
Transportation
- Association of American Railroads. Wisconsin's
Railroads: Their Part in the Development of the State.
Washington, D.C.: The Association, 1948.
- Chicago and North Western
Historical Society.
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A Chronology of Great Lakes Navigation.
Center for U.P. Studies, Northern Michigan University.
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Ensign & Thayer's Travellers' Guide Through the States of
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and
Wisconsin. Ancestry.com.
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Fennimore Railroad Historical Society.
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Great Lakes History by Dave Swayze.
Includes "the most complete and accurate list of losses of Great
Lakes commercial vessels in existence." The database has
excellent information and includes research sources.
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Great Lakes Maritime Database. This Great Lakes
Maritime Database was initially funded by the
Library of
Michigan in 2005 with a collaborative grant by
Alpena
County Library and the
Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. It contains the 19th
century C. Patrick Labadie collection as well as an ever growing
collection of 20th century data and pictures.
- Great Northern Railway
Historical Society.
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Historical Collections of the Great Lakes. Bowling Green
State University. Manuscripts, maps and charts, books, pamphlets
and periodicals and, photographs are all part of their
collection, as well as three Great Lakes Databases.
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History of the Great Lakes Captains, Shipping, Lighthouse
Keepers and Marine.
- A History of Wisconsin Highway Development 1835-1945.
Madison, Wisconsin: State Highway Commission, 1947.
- A History of Wisconsin Highway Development 1835-1945.
Madison, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Dept. of Transportation,
1989.
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Marine Historical Collection --
University of Detroit Mercy
Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical
Collection. The collection is searchable by keyword, ship name,
owner, builder, hull number, or registry number. Various links
can also be browsed.
- Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
[Ontario, Canada].
Research Resources.
The holdings are extensive with well in
excess of 3,000 artifacts, 11,000 bibliographic titles, 40,000
ships plans, and 3,000 boxes of archival material. In addition
there are over 15,000 photographs, nautical charts, paintings
and drawings.
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Maritime History of the Great Lakes. This site is an ongoing
experiment in the design of a "digital library", a collection of
documents intended to be of value to those researching Great
Lakes History.
- Mid-Continent Railway
Historical Society
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Mitchell Gallery of Flight - Preserves Milwaukee's and
Wisconsin's aviation history.
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1943 Railroads - C.E. Hammond & Co., N.Y.
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Railroad Collections - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
- Ship
Captain's Biography Index
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Railroad History Collections
- Walling Henry Francis. Atlas of the State of Wisconsin
Including Statistics and Descriptions of its History,
Educational Institutions, Geology and Railroads. Boston,
Massachusetts: Walling, Tackabury, 1876.
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Wisconsin Department of Transportation.
- Wisconsin Marine Historical
Society - Conserves the Great Lakes Marine Collection at the
Milwaukee Public Library. 85,000 Great Lakes vessel archival
documents and artifacts.
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Wisconsin Railroad Maps at the Library of Congress
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Wisconsin Railroad Survey 1857. Ancestry.com.
- Wisconsin
Railroading History Shop - Wisconsin railroads only. New
and used books, pre 1950 collectibles, and railroad maps.
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Wisconsin Transportion & Communication Maps at the Library of
Congress.
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Wisconsin's Great
Lakes Shipwrecks. Lakes Michigan and Superior
shipwrecks can be found on this site, as well as a glossary and
newspaper search of the Door County Advocate and
Manitowoc Pilot marine articles. The site also includes
video of the vessel's final resting place.
