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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1852 and organized in 1859. Its Menominee name is Kewāneh, an archaic name for a species of duck. Adjacent Counties Door County Brown County Manitowoc County Benzie County, Michigan Manistee County, Michigan Cities, Villages & Towns Ahnapee Al...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Door County, Wisconsin. Official Website Door County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island. The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, described a...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oconto County, Wisconsin. Official Website First visited by French explorers in the 17th century, Oconto County is among the oldest settlements in Wisconsin. Father Claude-Jean Allouez of the Roman Catholic Jesuit order said the first Mass in Oconto. Among the first settlers was Joseph Tourtilott, who explored much of the Oconto Riv...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Marinette County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created on February 27, 1879 and was named for Marie Antoinette Chevalier (1793-1865). The meaning, however, is contested. The French and Indians on the river when pronouncing "Marie Antoinette" would shorten the name by pronouncing it "Marinette." Another explanation is t...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Florence County, Wisconsin. Official Website Florence County was founded in 1882 and takes its name from the Florence Mining Company. Adjacent Counties Dickinson County, Michigan Marinette County Iron County, Michigan Forest County Towns & Communities Aurora Commonwealth Fence Fern Florence (County Seat) He...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Forest County, Wisconsin. Official Website Forest County was created by the Wisconsin State Legislature in 1885 and was named for the forests contained within its limits. Adjacent Counties Florence County Marinette County Iron County, Michigan Oconto County Vilas County Langlade County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Langlade County, Wisconsin. Official Website Langlade County was created on March 3, 1879 as New County. It was renamed Langlade County, in honor of Charles de Langlade, on February 20, 1880, and fully organized on February 19, 1881. Adjacent Counties Forest County Oconto County Oneida County Lincoln County Marathon Coun...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1875 and named after President Abraham Lincoln. Adjacent Counties Langlade County Oneida County Marathon County Taylor County Price County Cities, Towns & Communities Birch | Birch | Bradley | Bundy | Clifford (part) | Corning | Doering | Dudley | ...
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
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Adams County, Wisconsin. Official Website Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin . Its county seat is Friendship. The county was created in 1848 and organized in 1853. Sources differ as to whether its name is in honor of the second president of the United States, John Adams , or his son, the sixth president of the U...
Lebanon Baptist Cemetery (aka German Baptist Cemetery ) is on the far south end of a group of cemeteries including (from North to South): St. Paul's, Immanuel, and Wanderer's Rest. It is located in Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave
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 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 ...
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 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 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 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
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...
The Polish experience in Wisconsin was different than other in other communities in the U.S.: most came before 1890 and almost all were from areas ruled by Germany. The first sizable Polish settlement in Wisconsin was Polonia in Portage County in the 1850s. In 1900, 80 percent of Wisconsin's Poles came from Germany while nationally, German Poles constituted only 39 percent of the population. Mi...
Saint Francis de Sales Seminary is a seminary for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, located in the Milwaukee suburb of St. Francis, Wisconsin. Its main building, called Henni Hall, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The seminary was dedicated to Francis de Sales, seventeenth-century Bishop and saint of the Roman Catholic Church. The seminary was founded in 1845 ...
This cemetery is located on 429 East Hickory Street, Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave Official Website
Wikipedia Wood National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Find a Grave
This project is for those buried in St. Francis Cemetery, Ellsworth, Pierce County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave US GenWeb
This cemetery is located on WI-131, Viola, Richland County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave