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Wisconsin Vital Records

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Wisconsin Vital Records - Wisconsin issued marriage applications as early as the 1820s in some counties, although most jurisdictions began maintaining them with county organization. In 1852, the state directed the counties to record births, a mandate generally ignored. In 1878 a similar law received more attention and adherence. However, it was 1907 before the State Bureau of Vital Statistics was established.

• Genealogy research at the State of Wisconsin Vital Records Office, including a list of counties indicating earliest date vital records are available.
   
• To order copies of birth, death, or marriage records, check the Wisconsin Department Of Health and Family Services page for application forms and current prices:
   
  • Birth records
  • Death records
  • Marriage records
  • Divorce records
     
• The Wisconsin Vital Records Office makes copies of microfiche indexes available for purchase.  The indexes contain information on the name of the subject(s), the date of the event, the county of the event, and the location of the record in our files. Microfiche is the only format in which indexes are available for purchase.

• Birth, death, and marriage certificates for events that occurred prior to 1907 are available for viewing at the Wisconsin State Historical Society Archives. Information on the Wisconsin State Historical Archives can be found on the Internet at http://www.shsw.wisc.edu/genealogy/vitalrecords/

Vital Records. How to order Wisconsin vital records for both state and counties. The site provides updated information about process and costs for obtaining copies. Certified copies are only available to the person on the record or specific relatives of that person, such as parent, spouse, or grandparent. Onsite searching in the state vital records is possible with advance appointments at particular hours and on particular days.

Wisconsin Vital Records
P.O. Box 309
Madison, Wisconsin 53701-0309.

Vital records at the county level are held by the register of deeds at each county government center. Indexes and original records may be searched within established guidelines. Photocopies or certificates of county records can be obtained at the same rate schedule as the state's.

Of great value to the genealogist in Wisconsin is the statewide microfiche index to the births, deaths, and marriages recorded in the state prior to October 1907. The Wisconsin Historical Society, all Area Research Centers, and the Family History Library (FHL) in Salt Lake City hold copies of this index that has to be searched in person. The Wisconsin Historical Society Library at Madison has microfilmed copies of the actual records referred to in the index, and each Area Research Center has the microfilmed records for the counties covered by that center. Some records at the county level are not included in the statewide index. Some specific counties are not indexed for specific types of vital events, such as a marriage index for some counties. For those counties without a marriage index, the society also has microfilmed, handwritten registers, arranged chronologically by registration date, and indexed primarily by the first letter of the groom's surname.

The "Wisconsin Necrology" at the Wisconsin Historical Society is a collection of several thousand selected obituaries of Wisconsin citizens (1890-1945). The obituaries are in scrapbooks that were originally indexed by a card catalog, and are now searchable online at < http://wisconsinhistory.org/wni/ >. The scrapbooks have been microfilmed and are available through interlibrary loan.

Other obituary indexes can be located in numerous local libraries and in some Area Research Centers. Some early vital records have been extracted and published in state and county genealogical periodicals.

For further information:

• Index to Registrations of Births, 1852–1907 - arranged chronologically by the date of birth (on 41 fiche, FHL fiche 6331476; computer number 258503). Use this if you know the approximate date of birth or if the name is not found in the alphabetical index mentioned above.
   
• The Pre-1907 Death Index by Name - alphabetically arranged for the entire state (on 29 fiche, Family History Library fiche 6331472; computer number 258489). Be sure to search for spelling variations of the surname. Also available is the Death Records Index, 1959–1984 (Family History Library fiche 6334350–51; computer number 549067).
   
• Unedited Index to Registrations of Births, 1852–1907 - arranged alphabetically by surname (on 38 microfiche, Family History Library fiche 6331478; computer number 258488). This gives the date of birth, the county, and the volume and page number of the original record.
   
• The Family History Library also has a large set of birth and death records from the Register of Deeds in Milwaukee County. In the Family History Library Catalog these are listed under WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE COUNTY, MILWAUKEE - VITAL RECORDS:
   
  • Births, 1854–1911 and index, 1854–1932 (on 194 films beginning with film 1011972).
  • Deaths, 1852–1912, and index, 1872–1916 (on 109 films beginning with film 1013185).

  
  
   

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