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United States Wisconsin Waukesha County

	Wisconsin Online Records

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Historical Facts

Parent County

1846--Waukesha County was created 31 January 1846 from Milwaukee County. County seat: Waukesha ^[1]

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Vital records were not required until 1907. Before that time some civil records are available according to the dates below:

Births are available circa 1860 - present
Death records are available circa 1872 - present
Marriage records are available circa 1846-present

Records prior to the 1846 may be found in Milwaukee County

Places / Localities

Populated Places

• Towns, Villages and Townships - Waukesha County Online Genealogy and Family History Library
  
• Waukesha County Gazatteer -  Wi Home Town Locator

Neighboring Counties

• Dodge
• Jefferson
• Milwaukee
• Ozaukee
• Racine
• Walworth
• Washington

Resources

Bible Records

Biography

Cemeteries

• List of Cemeries, Waukesha County Online Genealogy and Family History Library
  
• Find a Grave, map of Waukesha County Cemeteries
• Find a Grave, list of Waukesha County Cemeteries

Census

Church History and Records

Court Records

Crime and Criminals

Newspaper clipping from Waukesha Daily Paper; dated 6 January 1952; entitled: 1840 Date of First Death Recorded in Merton Town. Was the second in a series of articles tracing the history of Merton. Taken from a paper presenting to the Waukesha county historical society by William Kuntz. This is only a snipit of the article.
"In 1840 the first death occurred in the town of Merton. It was that of Martin Molster, who died in January of that year. Tragedy stalked the shores of Lake Keesus where two young men were drowned while bathing in the lake. They had been employed in a maple sugar camp nearby. "

Directories

Ethnic, Political, or Religious Groups

Germans

Gazetteers

Genealogy

History

• The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Chicago : Western Historical Company. Containing an account of its settlement, growth, development and resources; an extensive and minute sketch of its cities, towns and villages--their improvements, industries, manufactories, churches, schools and societies; its war record, biographical sketches, portraits of prominent men and early settlers; the whole preceded by a history of Wisconsin, statistics of the state, and an abstract of its laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States (1880).   Online at Internet Archives www.archive.org.

Land and Property

Maps

• Overlay of Waukesha County outline over google map.  Wi Home Town Locator.
• Waukesha County Internet Mapping Site.  Shows Townships, Towns, Roads. (Need high speed connection and disable any pop-up blockers.) 
• Download PDF of  Plat Map Index of Waukesha County  Showing Townships (2 pages).

Migration

Military History and Records

Naturalization and Citizenship

Newspapers

• Waukesha County Daily Freeman  ($ need ancestry.com subscription)

Obituaries

Periodicals

Probate Records

Repositories

Archives, Libraries and Museums

County Courthouse

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
• Kettle Moraine Wisconsin Family History Center
• Milwaukee Wisconsin Family History Center

Societies

Taxation

Vital Records

Birth

Marriage

Divorce

Death

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Web Sites

• Family History Library Catalog
• Waukesha County Online Genealogy and Family History Library
  
• US GenWeb Archives, Waukesha County
• Linkpendium Waukesha County
• WI GenWeb Waukesha County
• Waukesha County Genealogical Society
• ancestry.com  Waukesha County Search  ($ need ancestry.com subscription)
• Cyndi's List Wisconsin Page    (scroll down or search down to "Waukesha")
• Live Roots - Waukesha County Page
• Wis Genealogy Trails - Waukesha County Page

References

1. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).