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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Madison, Wisconsin. Madison is the capital of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County. Official Website James Duane Doty named his city Madison for James Madison, the fourth President of the U.S. who had died on June 28, 1836, and he named the streets for the other 39 signers of the U.S. Constitution. Although the city existed...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dane County, Wisconsin. Official Website Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county and organized in 1839. It was named after Nathan Dane, a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped carve Wisconsin out of the Northwest Territory. Dane County was settled in the 1840s by settlers from New Eng...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1851 and organized in 1853. It is named after the Waupaca River, a Menominee language name meaning 'white sand bottom', 'pale water', or 'tomorrow river'. For a complete list of Towns & Communities, please see Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties Shawano Co...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Brown County, Wisconsin. Official Website Brown County is one of Wisconsin's two original counties, along with Crawford County. It originally spanned the entire eastern half of the state when formed by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818. It was named for Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown , a military leader during the War of 1812 . ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Grant County, Wisconsin. Official Website Grant County was created as part of Wisconsin Territory in 1837. It was named after an Indian trader; his first name, origins, and eventual fate are all unknown. Grant County, Wisconsin is the extreme southwesternmost county of Wisconsin and is adjacent to Jo Daviess County, Illinois which...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and later organized in 1844. Fond du Lac is French for "bottom of the lake", so given because of the county's location at the southern shore of Lake Winnebago. Adjacent Counties Calumet County Dodge County Washington Co...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Wood County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county, formed in 1856, is named after Joseph Wood, a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. For a complete list of Towns & Communities Wikipedia . Adjacent Counties Marathon County Portage County Adams County Juneau County Jackson County Clark County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Outagamie County, Wisconsin. Official Website Outagamie County was created in 1851 and organized in 1852. "Outagamie," a French transliteration of the Anishinaabe term for the Meskwaki (Fox) Indians, meant "dwellers of other shore" or "dwellers on the other side of the stream," referring to their historic habitation along the St. La...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 and was named after the Sheboygan River. Adjacent Counties Manitowoc County Calumet County Ozaukee County Washington County Fond du Lac County Cities & Villages Adell Cascade Cedar Grove Elkhart Lake Glenbeulah Howards Grov...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1834 as part of Michigan Territory. The name “Milwaukee” is generally believed to be derived from a Native American term meaning “good land.” Adjacent Counties Ozaukee County Racine County Waukesha County Washington County Cities, Villages, Towns...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marathon County, Wisconsin.= Official Website =It was founded in 1850 and was named after the battlefield at Marathon, Greece. Adjacent Counties * Lincoln County * Langlade County * Shawano County * Taylor County * Clark County * Wood County * Portage County Cities & Villages
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Wisconsin. Official Website Along with Brown County, Crawford County is one of Wisconsin's original counties, established by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818, and named after William H. Crawford, James Monroe's Treasurer at the time. It originally covered the western half of Wisconsin's present area. In ...
This Project is for those who were born, lived, and died in the State of Wisconsin.* Adams * Ashland * Barron * Bayfield * Brown * Buffalo * Burnett * Calumet * Chippewa * Clark * Columbia * Crawford * Dane * Dodge * Door * Douglas * Dunn * Eau Claire * Florence * Fond du Lac * Forest * Grant * Green * Green Lake * Iowa * Iron * Jackson * Jefferson * Juneau * Kenosha * Kewaunee * La Crosse * La...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Racine County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was founded in 1836, then a part of the Wisconsin Territory. It is named for its principal town, Racine, which was laid off in 1834-35 by Gilbert Knapp. The first designation of this settlement was Port Gilbert; but its founder decided to change this to Racine, the French transla...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1836 from Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1839. It is named for Reuben H. Walworth, an American lawyer, jurist and politician. Adjacent Counties Racine County Waukesha County Kenosha County McHenry County, I'll Boone County, I'll Rock County
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.= Official Website =The county was established in 1851 and French explorers named the area for the game Indians played on the prairie. Adjacent Counties * Jackson County * Trempealeau County * Monroe County * Houston County, Minn. * Vernon County * Winona County, Minn. Cities, Villages, Towns & Communities
This cemetery is located on Church Street, Mt. Calvary, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave USGW Archives
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pierce County, Wisconsin. Official Website Created in 1853, Pierce County was named for Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Dunn County St. Croix County Pepin County Goodhue County, Minnesota Dakota County, Minnesota Washington County, Minnesota Cities & Villages
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Official Website Known as forested and prairie land, the region was first home to Indigenous tribes like Menomonie, Ojibwe (Chippewa), Potawatomi, and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) who practiced agriculture and trade. In 1836, Native American tribes formally lost title to the land when treaties were disregarded, a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbia County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1846 as part of the Wisconsin Territory. Adjacent Counties Marquette County Green Lake County Dodge County Sauk County Juneau County Adams County Cities, Villages & Towns Arlington Caledonia Cambria
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Barron County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1859 as Dallas County (named after Vice President George M. Dallas ), with the county seat located at Barron. It was renamed Barron County on March 4, 1869. The county took the name Barron in honor of Wisconsin lawyer and politician Henry D. Barron , who served as ...
Roll Out the Barrel. We'll Have a Barrel of Fun! Our purposes are to explore our common Milwaukee heritage, link together our family trees, maybe learn a little of Milwaukee history, and above all, have fun doing it. Please visit our Milwaukee Polonia Project Blog for more information, including a list of family names known to be connected, and a FAQ section . Overview: For over 150 years, M...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Official Website Milwaukee is the county seat of Milwaukee County. It is the third-most densely populated metropolitan area in The Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago and Detroit, respectively. Milwaukee is considered a Gamma global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Waushara County, WI. Cities, Towns and Communities: * +Denotes county seat* ^Denotes areas in two or more counties* #Denotes ghost townsAurora - Auroraville - Bannerman - ^Berlin - Bloomfield - Borth - Brushville - Coloma - Dakota - Deerfield - Fountain Valley - Hancock - ^Heffron - Leon - Lohrville - Marion - ^Metz - Mount Morris - O...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Marquette County, Wisconsin.= Official Website =The county was created in 1836 from the Wisconsin Territory and organized in 1848 and was named in honor of Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit explorer, who passed through this region in 1673. Adjacent Counties * Green Lake County * Columbia County * Adams County * Waushara Cou...