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     Inventory Of Vital Records
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CEMETERIESLook this term up in the glossary.

The Wisconsin State Old Cemetery Society

c/o Robert Felber, Archivist
6100 W. Mequon Rd.
Mequon, WI 53092-1951
Telephone: 414-355-6252
or

c/o President Mrs. Beverly Silldorff
12116 North Briarhill Rd.
Mequon, WI 53097
Telephone: 414-242-3290
The society has card indexes to the names of many persons buried in Wisconsin Cemeteries. The society also publishes a helpful newsletter in which you can place queries. For a small fee, you can have them search their card index. Please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope.

The Wisconsin State Genealogical Society has published the inscriptions from several hundred cemeteries in the state in the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Newsletter. This is an on-going project. More inscriptions are published in every issue.

The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Collection contains tombstone inscriptions from many Wisconsin cemeteries. Many of the volumes are indexed. This collection is described in the “Genealogy” section of this outline and is partly indexed by family surname in E. Kay Kirkham's book listed in the “Bible Records” section of this outline.

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the Milwaukee Public Library also collect cemetery records. A list made in 1965 of the records in these collections and in the DAR collection is in Cemeteries in the State of Wisconsin (List only) of Those Copied and on File . . . (Milwaukee: Wisconsin Genealogical Society, 1965; FHL book 977.5 A1 no. 11; film 908208 item 11; computer number 242539).

The Family History Library has 47 films of Milwaukee cemetery records dating from about 1850 to 1979. These are listed in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE, MILWAUKEE - CEMETERIES.

A county-by-county list of cemetery record transcripts available at the Family History Library is:

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Family History Library. Index to United States Cemeteries. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1988. (FHL films 1206468–94; computer number 475648.) Film 1206493 includes Wisconsin.

The Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog lists more of these records under:

WISCONSIN- CEMETERIESWISCONSIN, [COUNTY]- CEMETERIESWISCONSIN, [COUNTY], [TOWN]- CEMETERIES

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