Waukesha County
Online Genealogyand
Family History Library
Introduction
As best we could we have divided this page into sections to help you sort out the types of resources we have added here. You will want to look over the entire list to be sure you find the links that will be most helpful to you. If you have a link you think should be added please email me.
[Waukesha Resources] [Wisconsin Resources] [Resources For Other States/Entire Us] [Resources For Other Countries/Immigration] [Military Resources] [General/All Inclusive]
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Waukesha County Resources
Post Queries to Message Board for Waukesha County
Search Land Records - Seachable Database including pictures of the actual signed documents. Click on the link in the Green bar that says Search Land Records.
County History & Vital Records Address
Board of Certified Genealogists Roster
Wisconsin Circuit Court Access - Many probate records for Waukesha County have been indexed and are available on this website.
Waukesha County Mailing List Digest ModeWisconsin State Historical Society Archives - Put Waukesha in the search engine then click on what interests you. A page will come up that tells where those records are kept.
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Wisconsin Resources
Maritime and Ship Captain Biographies
Maritime Wisconsin Newspaper Database
Southeastern Wisconsin Cemeteries
Resources Boards for all WI counties
Online History Stories - Wisconsin Historical Society has local history stories from newspaper clippings online
Golda Meier Urban Records Library - at UW-Milwaukee
Family History Library - Hales Corners & Brookfield
Milwaukee Public Library -Various Branches. Interlibrary Loan available.
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Other States/Entire US
Resources Boards for all States
1870 Michigan Census Online - Searchable Index and Images.
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Other Countries/Immigration Resources
Rootsweb's Irish Church Record Database
Ellis Island - Millions of Ellis Island records will be going online here.
Castle Garden - Free database of some immigration ship lists prior to Ellis Island opening.
Immigrant Ships Passenger Lists
FreeBMD - Details of over 10 million English and Welsh births, marriages and deaths between 1837 and 1900 are now available for free on the Internet
The Ancestors - Has surnames, Town names, County names in Prussia. You will have to work at it a little, but you should be able to find what your looking for.
Translations - Here is a link to a German-English online translation page
Index to the Hamburg Passenger Lists for the year 1872
Pomeranian Society of Freistadt - Contains a database of names that have been researched.
St. Catherines Transcriptions - Post-1837 birth, marriage and death records in England and Wales
Gard Strom - Here is a great site to find Norwegian ancestors. He has all kinds of records online.
Michael Kurz - This came from Austria, from Michael Kurz. "I'm writing my master thesis about the emigration from Salzkammergut to the U.S. in the 19th century, and am tracing emigrants from my home region. Between 1851 and 1880, about 400 people emigrated. I have information on some of these families I would like to share. Some of the surnames are: Pilz, Reisenauer, Reisenbichler, Spiegel, and Hofer. Please contact him for more information.
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Military Resources
Searchable Civil War rosters for Wisconsin
28th Regiment - Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry 1862-1865 - Recruited from Waukesha & Walworth Counties
Purple Heart Recipient Database - Offsite Link by my friend Debie Blindauer
The Civil War Lady - She does lookups on many states rosters.
Lists - The government has put the casualties from the Korean war and the Vietnam war online, listed by state then by county
Patriot Lookup Service - The DAR will search their database of proven Revolutionary patriots free of charge.
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page
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General/All Inclusive Resources
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Great Resource!
Genealogy Portal - A fantastic starting point for your genealogy research
Church Addresses - A site that lists church addresses around the US and Canada.
LDS Online - The LDS is putting genealogy information online. It's a must visit.
Downward Bound - Help finding your ancestors of Great Lakes shipping
Site for free lookups of all kinds
Cemeteries around the World - A link to cemeteries online all over the net.
Geographic Nameserver - If you don't know where the town your looking for is, try this site and you should be able to find it.
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