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From: "Bette Richards" <>
Subject: [BUNKER] Wisconsin sources
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:18:36 -0700

>From NEHGS newsletter this week.

Spotlight: The State of Wisconsin Collection of the University of Wisconsin
Digital Collections
(http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/WI/About.shtml)

Twenty-seven individual collections have been brought together in digital
format in the State of Wisconsin Collection. Both primary and secondary
materials related to the history of the State of Wisconsin have been
included. There are books, manuscripts, sound recordings, photographs, maps
and other resources.

Plat Map Books and Other Related Resources
Genealogical research can be enriched through the use of land records. This
State of Wisconsin Collection provides centralized access to a number of
different resources of this type.

Appleton Public Library Local History Collections
This digital collection contains four Outagamie County plat books during the
period from 1889 to 1942. Some of the books are indexed. A separate name
index to the 1889 Outagamie plat book is available at the Appleton Public
Library. Check the Library's website for additional related resources at
www.apl.org.

Historical County Plat Maps from South Central Wisconsin and Early Madison
City Directories
This collection contains plat books and city directories for areas in South
Central Wisconsin, specifically Columbia, Dane, Portage and Wood counties.

Northeast Wisconsin Historical County Plat Maps and Atlases
This collection ofplat books and atlases for areas in Northeastern
Wisconsin, specifically Brown, Door, Kewaunee and Shawano counties.

Oshkosh Atlases and Histories
This collection, which has as its focus nineteenth-century Oshkosh and
Winnebago counties, contains five volumes of histories and three volumes of
atlases and plat maps. While most of the resources are searchable, the plat
maps are not because the names of the landowners are hand written.
Biographical information about early settlers and prominent citizens may be
found in a number of the volumes in the collection.

Walworth County Plat Map of 1857
This digitized resource is an “interactive map [that] allows users to click
a township within Walworth County and view the database results for all
residents and properties within that township, as documented in 1857.” This
map is useful to local historians and genealogists alike.

Other Resources
Early Fond du Lac County People and Places
This digital collection consists of four books about Fond du Lac County.
Texts include an 1857–1858 city directory, a county gazetteer, a local
history and a book of photographs. Each volume can be browsed page by page
or searched by keywords.

Great Lakes Maritime History Project
The images in this collection document Wisconsin’s maritime history through
the years.

Manitowoc Local History Collection
This collection contains over 1,400 searchable images from the
late-nineteenth century through 1995, with most from the period between 1890
and 1930.

Waterford Area Local History
The early settlement of this area is documented in this digital collection.
The collection contains books, manuscripts, photographs, maps and
newspapers.

Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience
This collection contains first-person accounts — letters, diaries, poems,
and more — written by Wisconsin soldiers and citizens during the Civil War.

Wisconsin Pioneer Experience
The Wisconsin Pioneer Experience contains diaries, letters, reminiscences,
speeches and other writings of Wisconsin’s settlers from the 19th century.
Nearly 50 individual collections have been brought together here. Some of
the items have been translated and/or transcribed. Other items have been
scanned, digitized, and uploaded as images.

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