Wisconsin, Shawano and Oconto Counties, Indexes and Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
The collection consists of images of miscellaneous records which cover the years 1850 to 2007 from the Shawano Wisconsin FamilySearch Center. The collection includes the following:
 * Partial obituary index of original obituaries (1850-2007)
 * Land plat books (1898-1905)
 * Index to the 1910 US Census for Shawano County

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records: • 2

How Do I Search This Collection?
To begin your search, it is helpful to know:
 * The name of your ancestor
 * The name of a parent or date of the event

How Do I Analyze the Results?
Compare each result from your search with what you know to determine if there is a match. This may require viewing multiple records or images. Keep track of your research in a research log.

I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Add any new information to your records
 * Use the age listed to determine an approximate birth date to find church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records. Also search for immigration, military, land and probate records
 * Use the information to find additional family members in censuses
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?

 * Try viewing the original record. Indexes and transcriptions may not include all the data found in the original records. Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name
 * If your ancestor does not have a common name, collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you identify possible relatives that can be verified by records
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality in an area search
 * Try variant spellings of your ancestor’s name
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names

Research Helps
The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Wisconsin.
 * Wisconsin Guided Research
 * Wisconsin Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Research

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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Standard atlas of Shawano County, Wisconsin : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, 1911. Chicago, Illinois: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1911
 * Debra Anderson, comp. Shawano County guide to manuscripts and public records Green Bay, Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Cofrin Library, c1992 FS Library 977.5 A1 no. 206
 * Index to federal census; native American records; Menominee Reservation and Stockbridge Reservation, 1910, 1900
 * State of Wisconsin plat books, 1905
 * Shawano County, obituaries, 1894-2007
 * Index to obituaries from the newspaper "The Appleton Post Crescent", 1936-1971
 * Cemeteries, 1850-1992
 * Shawano County (Wis.) extract of naturalization records, 1859-1929
 * Shawano County, Wisconsin censuses card index for 1860, 1870, 1880 & 1900
 * Shawano County,1910 census index, 1910
 * Shawano County, Wisconsin birth index cards, ca. 1907-1924
 * Birth records index, 1850-1919 Shawano County, Wisconsin
 * Shawano County, Wisconsin city hall death index cards, ca. 1919-1937
 * Death index, ca. 1845-1939
 * Shawano County, Wisconsin city hall marriage index cards, ca. 1871-1976
 * Shawano County, Wisconsin marriage index cards, ca. 1907-1934
 * Shawano County, Wisconsin marriage index, ca. 1845-1909, 1919-1978

Citing This Collection
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