Brown County,Wisconsin Links

Brown County Info / Ethnic Links / General

Wisconsin Land Patents - land patents for Wisconsin
Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers - the War of Rebellion (1861-1865) "The Cvil War" - courtesy of the Wisconsin State Historical Society.

The Great Peshitgo Fire of 1871 - link to Wisconsin Historical Society where you can search for articles, pictures etc. on the Great Peshtigo Fire 1871.

Wisconsin State Historical Society - link to on-line historical collection of articles about locations and surnames around the stat from 1860 - 1940. Local History in Newpapers (a collection of 50,000 pages of local newpapers article 1860-1940). Wisconsin Historical Images - The Society has collected pictures for more than 150 years and today it possesses more than a million images, from mid-nineteenth century daguerreotypes to new millennium digital files. About 250 of the most popular or important have recently been made available on theSociety's Web site.

"The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin" Compiled and Published under the direction of J. D. Beck, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics 1907.

Brown County Links

Brown County home page - current infromation about Brown County, WI..
Green Bay Police Page - links to neighboring community information.
History of the Great Lakes - Marine Biographies of the Great Lakes from History of the Great Lakes, Vol. 2 by J.B. Mansfield Published Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co. 1899.
ePodunk - Profiles every county in the country, and more than 25,000 communities, with information about local museums, historical sites and other features, as well as links to cemetery info, state archives, state historical societies and other great sources for researchers. We have also geocoded our entries, so that users can search for nearby places. Many or our profiles feature vintage post cards from the early 1920s or before.
Catholic Churches in the Fox Valley - thanks to Jay Wilpolt
Coffrin Library UWGB - Archives and Library inlcuing the history of Brown County, plat maps, and a great genealogical resource.

Ethnic Groups in Brown County

HOLLAND / BELGIUM / LUXEMBURG

Benelux Genealogy - Home Page for genealogists with ancestors in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg.
Soc.Genealogy.Benelux - Usenet news group for genealogists researching the benelux countries.

Belgian Ancestry

The First Belgian Settlers to Brown County (1853).
Belgium-Roots Project at Rootsweb.
Belgian History - from the Belgian Tourist Office

Dutch Ancestry

Passenger lists - Early Dutch emmigrants to Wisconsin - 6 August 1847, and those encouraged to come by Father Van den Broek, arriving in 1848 and settling in Little Chute, Hollandtown, and Bay Settlement.
GenLais - on-line birth death and marriage record searches for theNetherlands from 1810 to 1910.

GERMANY

Soc.Genealogy.German - Usenet news groups for genealogists researching German ancestry.

SWITZERLAND

Swiss Genealogy - links to Swiss information and archives

AMERICAN INDIANS

Oneida Indian Ancestry - Links to rosters and surnames of Oneida Indian Ancestors.

General Genealogy Links

Roots Surname List - A searchable list of surnames and the researchers pursuing them.
Rootsweb - Home page for the Rootsweb server.
SSDI - Social Security Death Index - a search engine to find ancestors who were registered with the Social Security Administration. A good source of birth and death dates. Also identifies last address to which social security payments were sent.
19th Century Naming Pattern - a naming convention (sometimes followed, but with many variations).
Tranlsation Assistance - a site which will translate English to French, German, Italian, Portugese and Spanish of French, German, Italian, Portugese and Spanish to English.
19 Century Poorhouses - link to poorhouse stories and censuses in the U.S. of the mid-eighten hundreds.
The Department of Veterans Affairs put 3.2 million records for veterans buried in national veteran's cemeteries on this website.
The Genealogist and the Courthouse - gives a lot of information about finding and using vital records (birth, marriage, and death only) in the state, including what to expect at a courthouse, statistics on how many records actually have data written into a field according to the time period of the record, how to scan indexes as rapidly as possible, problems one encounters getting info out of vital records, research hours at county courthouse Register of Deeds offices, directions to some courthouses, which counties have incomplete brides' indexes for marriages, which counties have computerized indexes, and much else.

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Please send them to: Dick Balza