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| The Society owns many small groups of published and unpublished records from churches and from public and private cemeteries around Wisconsin. |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of local and county histories for Wisconsin, the U.S. and Canada. |
| Learn how to search and access our Church Records Collections. |
| Research your ancestors using our physical and digital collections of over 40,000 U.S. and Canadian family histories. |
| Explore our physical and online collections of Civil War materials including Wisconsin regimental histories, maps, casualty lists, lettters and more. |
| Learn how to request microfilm records from the Genealogical Society of Utah. |
| Learn tips for using our collections of over 40,000 published family histories for geneaology research. |
| Explore our Visual Materials collection of nearly 3 million images in more than 6,000 collections. Over 80,000 images are available online. |
| Use the Wisconsin Name Index to browse obituaries, newspaper clippings and biographical book excerpts. |
| Learn tips for using death records for family history research. |
| Learn how to use our newspapers, obituaries and biographical articles for genealogy research. |
| Learn tips for using cemetery records for family history research. |
| Full Newspapers, Name Index, Local History and Biographical Clippings |
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| Explore our physical and digital collections of newspapers, which is the second largest collection of newspapers in the U.S. |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of thousands of Wisconsin obituaries. |
| Explore our physical and digital collections of more than 25,000 maps and atlases, which focus on Wisconsin, the Midwest, the U.S. and Canada. |
| Search over 3,000,000 records including: birth, death and marriage record indexes; newspaper clippings; photographs and other visual materials; and property records from National Register and State Register of Historic Places and the Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory (AHI). |
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| Search over three million family history records, including birth, death and marriage record indexes, newspaper clippings and property records. |
| Explore our physical and digital collection of naturalization records for Wisconsin and passenger lists for the U.S. and Canada. |
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