Genealogical Resources

• University of Wisconsin-Madison Archives and Records Management Services (see especially the web pages for genealogical resources and for oral history).
• MadCat (catalog of the Univ.of Wisconsin-Madison libraries, including the computerized portion of the library of the Wisconsin Historical Society)
• Wisconsin Historical Society Archives
  
• WorldCat
  WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music CDs and videos. You can also discover many new kinds of digital content, such as downloadable audiobooks. You may also find article citations with links to their full text; authoritative research materials, such as documents and photos of local or historic significance; and digital versions of rare items that aren't available to the public.
  
  WorldCat lets you find an item of interest and then locate a library near you that owns it. The actions available to you on that page will vary from one library to another. You may be able to join a waiting list, reserve the item, check it out or even have it shipped or delivered.
• Great Lakes Regional Facility (Chicago), National Archives and Records Administration
  
• National Personnel Records Center, Military Personnel Records
  
• Directory of Wisconsin Libraries
  
• Public library systems of Wisconsin (map)
• South Central Library System (encompassing libraries in Adams, Columbia, Dane, Green, Portage, Sauk and Wood Counties)
  
• Arrowhead Library System (encompassing seven libraries in Rock County)
• Milwaukee County Federated Library System (includes 15 branches of the Milwaukee Public Library and 14 other city libraries). See especially the Milwaukee Public Library (MPL).
  
• WISCAT On-Line Catalog (a union catalog for more than 1200 libraries of all types throughout Wisconsin)
  
• Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
  Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center is a unique and valuable resource for Northeastern Indiana and the entire genealogical community at large. ACPL has one of the largest family history collections available, incorporating records from around the world. The ACPL Genealogy Center is active in numerous initiatives to make significant public domain portions of its collection available online. Search ACPL’s digitized books on FamilySearch here.
• Family History Library
  The Family History Library sponsored by FamilySearch is the largest genealogical library in the world. The Family History Library is actively digitizing its family histories, local histories, and other collections to make them searchable and available online to researchers worldwide. Together with other world-renowned genealogical research partner libraries, the Family History Library is pleased to make its collections and its partners’ collections available together in the new online digital library.
• Norwegian-American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library
  NAGC & NL serves a worldwide audience by building and sharing stellar research collections, publishing useful and popular genealogical materials, and reaching out to all those who seek to know and venerate their Norwegian roots. Included is a research questionnaire one should fill out when requesting that the NAGCNL do research for you.
  
• Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center
  

Research Guides

• FamilySearch: A Guide to Research
  

• Our TimeLines
  This web site generates truly fascinating personalized web pages for you. They show how your life (or the life of anyone else you choose — for instance, your descendants and ancestors) fits into history as we know it.
  
  

• Wisconsin GenWeb site
• Columbia County GenWeb site
• Dane County GenWeb site
• Rock County GenWeb site
• Sauk County GenWeb site
• List of all the Wisconsin county GenWeb sites
  

• Wisconsin Historical Society (see especially the Genealogy link)
  
• Dane County Historical Society
  

• Ancestry Library Edition
  Contains genealogy information, including census data, passenger lists, and more. Available online using your library card and in most Wisconsin libraries.
• Ancestry.com (Paid personal edition)
  Contains genealogy information, including census data, passenger lists, and more.
• HeritageQuest Online Index (Accesses through BadgerLink.)
  
• Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records This website has an extensive directory of links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county throughout the U.S.A.. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records.
• Online access to The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy and Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources. Ancestry.com has announced that they will no longer publish these two well-regarded references in book form, and have made the contents of the third edition of each reference available online.
• Forest Hill Cemetery (Madison)
  This website now provides the ability to search burial records by name or lot number.

• Information about obituaries published in the Wisconsin State Journal; use the subject search tool in the local newspapers portion of LinkCat to search the index of obituaries.
  
• State of Wisconsin Blue Book (complete text of every Blue Book issued since 1853).
  

• Information about federal censuses, as provided by IPUMS-USA: Questions, 1850-2019 and Enumerator instructions, 1850-1950 (censuses after 1950 were mostly conducted by self-enumeration)
  

• Wisconsin Vital Records Office – click here to learn about vital records indexes available in this office
• Dane County Register of Deeds Office