Research and Reference Resources

History and Genealogy

Biography

Biography.com - http://www.biography.com
Dead People Server - http://dpsinfo.com/dps/
Lives, the Biography Resource - http://amillionlives.com/

Genealogy see also Genealogy Resources at the Library

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Internet Sites - http://www.CyndisList.com/
A collection of around 100,000 links that have been organized and cross-referenced in over 100 categories, this site is one of the richest resources for genealogy studies.

Family Search - http://www.familysearch.org/
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' (aka Mormon or LDS) genealogical site.

Internet Genealogy - http://www.scls.lib.wi.us/mcm/programs/genealogyprogram.html
A program presented nationally by Donald Litzer of McMillan Memorial Library.

Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records (by State) - http://www.deathindexes.com
"This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. Also included is information about searching the Social Security Death Index online."

Social Security Death Index - http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
The Social Security Death Index (SSDI) is a searchable database of over 68 million records created from SSA payment records.  Rootsweb also a guide to this unique resource.

Telephone Directories on the Web - http://www.infobel.com/teldir
A world wide listing of phone books, arranged by country. Some sites do not have English instructions.

Vital Records Information - http://vitalrec.com/index.html
How and where to obtain vital records for each county of each state. An official certificate of every birth, death, marriage, and divorce are usually filed in the county where the event occurred. How to obtain birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates provides this information for states.

Wisconsin Historical Society - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org
Offers a number of links (under Archives) to sites of historical interest in Wisconsin. For the holdings of the State Historical Society, use the University of Wisconsin-Madison's card catalog.

Wisconsin History and Genealogy

American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement: A Digital Library and Learning Center - http://www.americanjourneys.org
A collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day, this site contains accounts of early North American exploration and settlement.

The Changing Faces of Innocence: Wisconsin's Immigrant Children - http://www. madisonpubliclibrary.org/history/immigrant.html
This photo exhibit was especially created for the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial through the cooperative efforts of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin and the Madison Public Library.

Dictionary of Wisconsin History - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/
An outgrowth of the Turning Points in Wisconsin digital project, "this Dictionary explains more than 8,000 terms (people, places, things, and events) used in writings about Wisconsin history." Search by keyword or term. Browse by people or place.

Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in Wisconsin - http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/history/flwarch.html
A list of publicly-accessible Frank Lloyd Wright architecture organized geographically. Developed in 1997 in conjunction with a library program.

Frank Lloyd Wright in Wisconsin - http://www.wrightinwisconsin.org
This site is a presentation of the Frank Lloyd Wright Wisconsin Heritage Tourism Program giving information on Wright buildings in Wisconsin. For another look at Wright, see the Frank Lloyd Wright site from PBS or find Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in Wisconsin (page developed in conjunction with a program in 1998).

Genealogy Tools from the Wisconsin Historical Society - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/
Includes records of births and deaths in Wisconsin prior to 1907, information about cemetery records , Wisconsin Name Index , a Civil War roster, and much more.

Milwaukee History - http://www.mpl.org/File/digital_remember_index.htm
The Milwaukee Public Library now offers "Remember When", a digitized collection of newspaper columns from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. This feature ran from 1963-1994 and is enhanced by the library's historic photo collection.

Pioneering the Upper Midwest - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/umhtml/
Portrays the states of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century through first-person accounts, biographies, promotional literature, local histories, ethnographic and antiquarian texts, colonial archival documents, and other works drawn from the Library of Congress's General Collections and Rare Books and Special Collections Division.

Portal Wisconsin - http://www.portalwisconsin.org/
"A point of entry to Wisconsin's vibrant history, humanities and arts communities, complete with comprehensive listings of events" and including a list of Wisconsin's historical sites.

Turning Points in Wisconsin History - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints
"Hundreds of eyewitness accounts, pictures, and museum objects, new ones added daily. Dozens of essays, educational activities, and reference tools. Created [by the Wisconsin Historical Society] with support from the Wisconsin Historical Foundation, CESA 6, and UW Oshkosh's Teaching American History Grant from the U.S. Department of Education."

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections - http://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections.html
Links to online exhibits, many featuring aspects of Wisconsin history including a full collection of Wisconsin Blue Books, as well as materials from all University of Wisconsin campuses and many Wisconsin public libraries.

Wisconsin Heritage Online --http://wisconsinheritage.org
An effort by Wisconsin's cultural and educational insitutions and organization to provide access to the "state's history, culture, diversity, government and industry through a variety of written, graphic and audio content in digital format". See also its wiki at: Wisconsin Heritage Online

Wisconsin Historical Society - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/
Offers a number of links to sites of historical interest in Wisconsin. For the holdings of the Wisconsin Historical Society library, use the University of Wisconsin-Madison's card catalog for books or the Archives Computer Catalog (ArCat) for archival material.

Wisconsin: Celebrating People, Place and Past - http://www.ecb.org/wisconsin/index.htm
Overview of Wisconsin--its industries, people, geography, and more.

Wisconsin Electronic Reader - http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/
Information on Wisconsin history which includes the texts of stories, essays, letters, poems, biographies and journals. Sponsored by UW-Madison General Library System and the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Wisconsin History, Day by Day - http://www.wishistory.com
"Wisconsin historical tidbits arranged by day. Links to related Web sites, suggested readings, vocabulary, study questions and more."

Wisconsin Local History and Biography Articles - http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/index.asp
Image files of historical and biographical articles preserved in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society, mainly between 1860-1940. Searchable by headline, subject, newspaper, location, date, and name.

Wisconsin Music Archives - http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/Music/wma/

Wisconsin Pioneer Experience - http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/wipionexp/
"A digital collection of original sources documenting 19th-century Wisconsin history. Discover Wisconsin's pioneer voices through diaries, letters, and other personal narratives." From the UW Digital Collections.

Wisconsin Stories - http://www.wisconsinstories.org/
Joint oral history project from the Wisconsin Historical Society and Wisconsin Public Television.

Wisconsin Veterans Museum - http://museum.dva.state.wi.us

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