Marinette County, Wisconsin Genealogy

United States Wisconsin  Marinette County

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



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

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)

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: http://www.uwgb.edu/library/spc/requests/

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

Newspapers
Peshtigo Times

Archives, Libraries and Museums
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

 * Introduction to LDS 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.

Death

 * Ordering Vital Records for Marinette County

Web Sites

 * GenWeb for Marinette County
 * GenWeb Archives for Marinette County
 * Marinette, WI &amp; Menominee, MI County Genealogy Site
 * Marinette County Home Page