Shawano Wisconsin Family History Center

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Center Contacts and Hours
Location &amp; Map:

Address: 910 Zingler St Shawano, Wisconsin


 * Park in the south parking lot, behind the building. Entrance is marked with sign.
 * During severe winter weather, call ahead to see if Center is open.
 * If area schools have been cancelled because of weather, the Center will not be open.
 * Location on Map

Phone:  (715) 526-2946 or 715-584-8249

E-mail: wi_shawano@familyhistorymail.org

HOURS Monday 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Wednesday & Thursday, 1 p.m. to 4 pm and 6:30 to 9 p.m.

2nd and 4th Saturday of month - 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday evenings available by appointment for Church members only.

Holiday Schedule:

Closed the week of Thanksgiving Nov 22-28, 2021

Closed Christmas and New Years Dec 17, 2021-Jan 2, 2022 

'With any accumulating amount of snow fall please call the FHC Center first as I live out of town. 715-854-8249'

Center Resources: Ancestry, Fold 3, Newspapers.com, ArkivDigital online, Find my Past
====Collections: Local Obituaries, BMD Records, Cemetery Records for all Shawano County, Veteran's from Civil War to present, including Menominee Natives, Plat Maps, Family Group Sheets and Family Books, Menominee Native American Records and some other tribes such as Stock Bridge/ Munsee, Brotherton and Oneida.====


 * Family History Library Catalog: This gives access to digitized copies of the millions of microfilms from around the world stored in a mountain in Utah.
 * All available Federal and State Census records on microfilm for Shawano County, plus many for the surrounding counties.
 * Index card collection of tombstones for all known cemeteries in Shawano County.
 * Index card collection of vital records (birth, marriage, and death) extracted from records in the Shawano County Register of Deeds office.
 * Index card collection of naturalization records abstracted from records when they were still in possession of the Shawano County Clerk of Court. Original records are now in possession of the Wisconsin State Historical Society and are kept at the Area Research Center in the Coffrin Library at the UW-Green Bay campus.

Databases and Software

 * FHC Portal: This center has access to the Family History Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions. (Note to FHC: Not all FHCs have access to this portal. If you do not, you will want to remove this entire bullet. If you do have access to it, just remove this text in italics.)

Hardware and Equipment


Resources: computers, microfilm readers, microfilm printer, printers, wi-fi

Staff Research Specialties
Carrie Pitt has a Bachelor's Degree in Genealogical Research with a major in British Isles Research.

Resources in the Local Area

 * Shawano City-County Library
 * Address: 128 S. Sawyer St., Shawano, WI 54166
 * Phone: 715-526-3829


 * Microfilm rolls of newspapers published in Shawano, Wisconsin.


 * Shawano County Historical Society
 * Address: 524 N. Franklin Street, Shawano, WI, 54166-0534
 * Phone: 715-526- 3323

Links
Shawano County Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wishawa4/

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