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Wisconsin Manuscript Collections
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- Manuscripts - Manuscript collections at the Wisconsin Historical
Society are extensive. Genealogists must be diligent and imaginative in using
these sources. A sampling of collections and access tools is listed below.
- Draper Manuscripts. Collected in the nineteenth century by Lyman
Copeland Draper. The variety of the collection includes correspondence,
interview notes, extracts from newspapers and other published sources, muster
rolls, and transcripts of offcial documents and research notes for the western
Carolinas and Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, the entire Ohio River valley, and
parts of the Mississippi River valley. The collection is available on 134
reels of microfilm, which is owned by numerous libraries in the country. To
access the collection, consult Josephine L. Harper, Guide to the Draper
Manuscripts. Madison, Wisconsin: State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
1983.
- Grignon, Lawe, and Porlier Papers (1712-1884). Includes some of the
oldest Wisconsin documents. The sixty-five volumes contain the business,
personal, and official papers and correspondence of three early Green Baby
families that were involved in the fur-trading industry.
- Patterson, Betty, ed. Some Pioneer Families of Wisconsin, An Index.
3 vols. A Bicentennial Project of the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society,
Madison, Wisconsin, 1977, 1987, and 2001. It is a collection of indexes of
application for pioneer or century certificates. The indexes include the
following, if available: name of ancestor, birth date and place, death date,
name of spouse, county of residence, and name of applicant. Supporting
documentation for volumes one and two is in the archives of the Wisconsin
Historical Society and is accessible to researches. Documentation for volume
three is available through the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society. Both
societies provide photocopies by mail for a fee.
- Pioneers of Southeastern
Wisconsin Collections, A-I , J-R ,
S-Z - University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee.
- The Territorial Papers of the United States: the Territory of
Wisconsin, 1836-1848: a Microfilm Supplement. Washington, D.C.: National
Archives, 1959. - On 122 FHL films beginning with 1601731. Has a few court
records for 1836-1848; Bureau of Indian Affairs records 1836-1848;
appointments of postmasters 1836-1848; maps 1836-1848; records of lighthouses
and customs, and many other governmental records.
- White, Bruce M. The Fur Trade in Minnesota: An Introductory Guide to
Manuscript Sources. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1977. An
excellent index to all fur trade manuscripts.
- WPA Life Histories from
Wisconsin - Manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940,
Library of Congress.
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