Columbia County, Wisconsin Genealogy

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County Courthouse Columbia County Courthouse PO Box 177 Portage, WI 53901-0177 Phone.608.742.9654&#160; Register of Deeds has land, burial, marriage, death and burial records; Clerk Circuit Court has divorce and court records; Register in Probate has probate records The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. page 755 Columbia County, Wisconsin (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002). 

Parent County
1846--Columbia County was created 3 February 1846 from Portage County. County seat: Portage

Neighboring Counties

 * Adams
 * Dane
 * Dodge
 * Green Lake
 * Juneau
 * Marquette
 * Sauk

Census
1855 Wisconsin State Census— Free name index and images of the 1855 Wisconsin State Census can be viewed on FamilySearch.org. This census only identifies the head of family by name. The rest of the census is statistical.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers