Marinette County, Wisconsin Genealogy

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County Courthouse
1926 Hall Ave. Marinette, WI 54143-1717

County Clerk

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)

Local Histories

 * 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

Vital Records

 * Ordering Vital Records for Marinette County

Societies and Libraries

 * Amberg History Society (includes a searchable museum catalog)

University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
Digital collections include:


 * Standard atlas of Marinette County, Wisconsin, including a plat book of the villages... civil government; Goe. A. Ogle &amp; Co. Publishers &amp; Engravers, 1912
 * Sectional map of Marinette County showing ownership of lands, location of churches, cemetaries, school houses, roads, rural mail routes, railroads, etc.; Eagle Printing Company, 1905
 * Yearbooks and other Marinette County local history records (mostly 1920's).

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.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Marinette Wisconsin Family History Center

Web Sites

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