Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Genealogy

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Parent County
1834--Milwaukee County was created 6 September 1834 from Brown and Iowa Counties. County seat: Milwaukee

Neighboring Counties

 * Ozaukee
 * Racine
 * Washington
 * Waukesha

Catholic Cemeteries
A database of many Catholic cemeteries for Milwaukee

can be found at the Archdiocese of Milwaukee Catholic cemeteries website.

Census
"Wisconsin State Census— The following Winconsin state censuses are digitized, indexed, and available on-line at FamilySearch.org: 1855, 1875, 1885, 1895, and 1905."

Directories
Fold3.com ($) has Milwaukee City Directories 1861-1892 (3 yrs. missing) available online. The collection is part of Fold3.com's "premium content" which requires a subscription to view, or can be viewed for free at a Family History Center.

Germans
Archives, Libraries, and Museums Biographies Church Records Cemetery Records Court Records Histories Immigration/emigration/migration Maps Newspapers Societies

Volga Germans had many settlements in Racine county. To find out more about Volga Germans click here. This site gives resources to help you with your Volga German research, including a mailing list to help you communicate with others in the same ethnic group. They have indexed and made searchable over 100,000 names. You can search by name or village name and the search leads you to sites where that name or village can be found.

The Milwaukee Historical Society has many useful records that may help you in your German or other nationality research.

The record types available here are:


 * Civil War Rosters
 * Jail records
 * Marriage record index
 * Manuscripts
 * Newspapers
 * Naturalization
 * School census record
 * Territorial census records
 * Ordination records of church clergy
 * Published histories

Archives, Libraries and Museums
Milwaukee Public Library

814 W. Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53233 (414) 286-3000

See the library's Genealogy page for online and other collections.