Dane County, Wisconsin Genealogy

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County Courthouse
Dane County's Administrative offices are located in the joint City-County Building at 210 South Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., directly south of the State Capitol.

This building houses the Register of Deeds office for the county. It is in this office that both deeds and vital records are filed.

Nearest public parking is approximately 2 blocks east in the city garage.

Parent County
1836--Dane County was created 7 December 1836 from Crawford, Iowa and Milwaukee Counties. County seat: Madison

Neighboring Counties

 * Columbia
 * Dodge
 * Green
 * Iowa
 * Jefferson
 * Rock
 * Sauk

Cemeteries

 * Dane County, Wisconsin Cemetery records (interment.net)
 * Dane County cemeteries (graveyards.com)
 * Dane County cemetery list (findagrave.com)

Census
1855 Wisconsin State Census— Free indexed searchable images to the 1855 Wisconsin State Census can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search This census includes name of head of family, individuals in the household by sex and race, number of deaf and dumb, blind, insane and foreign born.

1885 Wisconsin State Census— Free indexed searchable images to the 1885 Wisconsin State Census can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search This census includes name of head of family, individuals in the household by sex and race, number of deaf and dumb, blind, insane and foreign born.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Madison Wisconsin Family History Center
 * Sun Prairie Wisconsin Family History Center

Web Sites
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:

Wisconsin, Dane County Naturalization Records (FamilySearch Historical Records)