Portage County, Wisconsin Genealogy

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Parent County
1836--Portage County was created 7 December 1836 from Brown, Crawford, Iowa andMilwaukee Counties. County seat: Stevens Point

Neighboring Counties

 * Adams
 * Marathon
 * Shawano
 * Waupaca
 * Waushara
 * Wood

Cemeteries
Guyant Collection of Tombstone Inscriptions is on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. This collection includes tombstone inscriptions copied between 1970 and 1981 by Wayne and Alta Guyant in cemeteries in seventeen Wisconsin counties, and clipped newspaper obituaries and other related items. The records represent every known cemetery in Florence, Langlade, Portage, Waupaca, and Waushara counties and many in Adams, Barron, Forest, Green Lake, Juneau, Lincoln, Marquette, Oneida, Outagamie, Shawano, Winnebago, and Wood counties.

Census
1855 Wisconsin State Census— Free searchable index 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 searchable index 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.

Naturalization and Citizenship
Naturalization Records for Portage County have been indexed and the index is available on the Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society's website http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wispags/resources/naturalization.html

Obituaries
The Portage County Obituary Index is now a part of the Central Wisconsin Genealogy Index (http://mypoint.uwsp.edu/Library/gen_index). Full text obituaries from The Wisconsin Pinery (1853-1890) and The Plover Times (1866-1881) can be found on the Stevens Point Area Genealogical Society's website. These are not indexed in the Obituary Index. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wispags/resources/obituaries.html