Ozaukee County, Wisconsin Genealogy

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

United States Wisconsin  Ozaukee County



County Courthouse
Ozaukee County Courthouse 121 W Main Street; PO Box 994; Port Washington, WI 53074 Phone: 262.284.8100 Register  of Deeds has birth, marriage, death, and land from 1853; Clerk Circuit Court has divorce, probate and court records; County Treasurer has tax rolls from 1851

Parent County
1853--Ozaukee County was created 7 March 1853 from Washington County. County seat: Port Washington

Boundary Changes
For animated maps illustrating Wisconsin County boundary changes, "Rotating Formation Wisconsin County Boundary Maps" (1790-1961) may be viewed for free at the MapofUS.org website.

Record Loss
For a list of record loss in Wisconsin Counties see: Wisconsin Counties with Burned Courthouses

Neighboring Counties

 * Milwaukee
 * Sheboygan
 * Washington
 * Waukesha

Census
1855 Wisconsin State Census— Free searchable index to the 1855 Wisconsin State Census can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search This census includes name of head of family, individuals in the household by sex and race, number of deaf and dumb, blind, insane and foreign born.

1885 Wisconsin State Census— Free searchable index to the 1885 Wisconsin State Census can be viewed on the FamilySearch Record Search This census includes name of head of family, individuals in the household by sex and race, number of deaf and dumb, blind, insane and foreign born.

1905 State Census for Ozaukee County at userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/census/index/ 17,491 records. Put in the surname, year of census, and county/state.

Church History and Records

 * Port_Washington,_Wisconsin

Lutheran

 * Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, Cedarburg, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).

Germans
Archives, Libraries, and Museums Biographies Church Records Cemetery Records Court Records Histories Immigration/emigration/migration Maps Newspapers Societies

Maps

 * Old Antique Atlases &amp; Maps of Wisconsin

Military History and Records

 * Official War History of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin by R. B. Pixley (Port Washington, WI: Ozaukee County War History Committee, 1919) (digitized book)

Repositories
See also a List of Wisconsin Archives, Libraries, Publications, Historical &amp; Genealogical Societies

Web Sites

 * Ozaukee County, WI History, Records, Facts and Genealogy
 * Wisconsin Genealogy Network Community on Google+
 * Wisconsin Genealogy Network Group on Facebook
 * Ozaukee County GenWeb
 * Ozaukee County GenWeb