Marinette County, Wisconsin Genealogy

Guide to Marinette County Wisconsin ancestry, family history, and genealogy research page. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

United States Wisconsin  Marinette County



County Courthouse
Marinette County Courthouse 1926 Hall Ave Marinette, WI 54143; Phone. 715.732.7532

Register of Deeds has birth, marriage, death and land records from 1879; Clerk Circuit Courth has divorce and court records from 1879; Regisrar in Probate has probate records from 1879

Parent County
1879--Marinette County was created 27 February 1879 from Oconto County. County seat: Marinette

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Wisconsin County boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Wisconsin County Boundary Maps" (1790-1961) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
For a list of record loss in Wisconsin Counties see: Wisconsin Counties with Burned Courthouses

Populated Places
Towns


 * Amberg
 * Athelstane
 * Beaver
 * Beecher
 * Dunbar
 * Goodman
 * Grover
 * Lake
 * Middle Inlet
 * Niagara
 * Pembine
 * Peshtigo
 * Porterfield
 * Pound
 * Silver Cliff
 * Stephenson
 * Wagner
 * Wausaukee

Villages


 * Coleman
 * Crivitz
 * Pound
 * Wausaukee

Cities


 * Marinette
 * Niagara
 * Peshtigo

Neighboring Counties
Dickinson County, Michigan •  Florence  •  Forest  •  Menominee County, Michigan  •  Oconto



Cemeteries

 * Marinette County Cemeteries at Find A Grave
 * Amberg Cemetery (complete list of people buried there)

Church History and Records

 * Marinette,_Wisconsin

Lutheran

 * Records of the American Lutheran Church, Marinette County, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).

Court Records
Circuit Court Case Files from 1879-1939 are held at:

Archives &amp; Area Research Center Cofrin Library, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Dr. Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 Phone: (920) 465-2539 E-mail: archives@uwgb.edu Website: www.uwgb.edu/library/spc/ Facebook: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives &amp; Area Research Center Circuit Court Look-Up Request form available at:

Directories

 * Marinette,_Wisconsin

History

 * Coleman Home Page (includes history)
 * Marinette (includes history)
 * Peshtigo History (includes Peshtigo Fire links)
 * Wausaukee Home Page (includes history)
 * "Richard T. Ely and the development of the Wisconsin cutover" by Robert Gough
 * "Colonizing the Cutover: Wisconsin's Progressive-Era Experiments in Rural Planning" by Susan O. Haswell and Arnold R. Alanen

Land and Property
Tax rolls from 1879-1982 are held at:

Archives &amp; Area Research Center Cofrin Library, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Dr. Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 Phone: (920) 465-2539 E-mail: archives@uwgb.edu Website: www.uwgb.edu/library/spc/ Facebook: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives &amp; Area Research Center

Maps

 * Old Antique Atlases &amp; Maps of Wisconsin

Civil War
Civil War service men from Crawford County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are many companies or regiments that were formed from men of Crawford County.


 * - 12th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry, Company F

Naturalization and Citizenship
Declarations of Intention and Naturalizations from 1823-1907 are held at:

Archives &amp; Area Research Center Cofrin Library, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Dr. Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 Phone: (920) 465-2539 E-mail: archives@uwgb.edu Website: www.uwgb.edu/library/spc/ Facebook: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives &amp; Area Research Center Request form available at:

Newspapers
Peshtigo Times

Repositories
See also a List of Wisconsin Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies

Archives, Libraries and Museums
Archives &amp; Area Research Center Cofrin Library, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Dr. Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 Phone: (920) 465-2539 E-mail: archives@uwgb.edu Website: www.uwgb.edu/library/spc/ Facebook: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives &amp; Area Research Center

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Digital collections include:


 * Standard atlas of Marinette County, Wisconsin (1912)
 * Sectional map of Marinette County showing ownership of lands, location of churches, cemetaries, school houses, roads, rural mail routes, railroads, etc.; (1905)
 * Yearbooks and other Marinette County local history records (mostly 1920's).

County Courthouse
1926 Hall Ave. Marinette, WI 54143-1717

County Clerk

Family History Centers

 * Marinette Wisconsin Family History Center

Societies

 * Searchable Museum catalog of the society's main collections, including quarrying, lumbering, and railroad artifacts; pioneer photos; veterans exhibit; and archival items such as old school records.

Amberg History Society


 * Amberg Cemetery listing

Marinette County Historical Society\ Marinette County Historical Society &amp; Marinette County Logging Museum P.O. Box 262 Marinette, WI 54143 (715) 732-0831

Publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Historian, which includes original articles of interest to the Marinette County area, photographs, maps, book reviews, and other items of local and regional interest.

Wisconsin Historical Society Search the Wisconsin Genealogy Index, on-line index of 2.5 million birth, marriage and death records. See other collections and search strategy resources available on the Wisconsin Historical Society Genealogy page. This organization's web site was named one of the top 101 genealogy websites in 2010.

Vital Records
Pre-1907 birth, marriage, and death registrations are held on microfilm at:

Archives &amp; Area Research Center Cofrin Library, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay 2420 Nicolet Dr. Green Bay, WI 54311-7001 Phone: (920) 465-2539 E-mail: archives@uwgb.edu Website: [www.uwgb.edu/library/spc/] Facebook: University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives &amp; Area Research Center Request forms available at:


 * Ordering Vital Records for Marinette County

Birth Records

 * 1826 - 1926 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1820 - 1907 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1826 - 1908 Wisconsin, Births and Christenings Index, 1826-1908 at Ancestry.com — index $

Marriage Records

 * 1836 - 1930 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1973 - 1997 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1973 - 1997 Wisconsin Marriages, 1973-1997 at Ancestry.com — index/images $

Divorce Records

 * 1965 - 1984 at FamilySearch.org — index

Death Records

 * 1867 - 1907 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1835 - 1968 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1820 - 1907 at FamilySearch.org — index
 * 1959 - 1997 at FamilySearch.org — index

Web Sites

 * Marinette County, WI History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Wisconsin Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Wisconsin Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * GenWeb for Marinette County
 * GenWeb Archives for Marinette County
 * Marinette, WI &amp; Menominee, MI County Genealogy Site
 * Marinette County Home Page