Wisconsin
Digital collections at the UW
If you have not used
this collection, you could be missing out on a HUGE, source of records.
In 2000, the
University Digital Collections system,
in cooperation with the UW faculty created this Free access to the digital
collections. They have worked with
public libraries, and the State of Wisconsin, to preserve and make available
FREE to the public, researchers and students.
The collection could
make you dizzy. My focus is going to be on what can help us, as Genealogist and
Wisconsin Historians.
This first
collection: The State of Wisconsin Collection,
For a broad search,
click the link below and a list of: Materials in the Collection list
appears with click-able links.
OR
At the top of the
page you can click : Search the collection
I rarely search by
text, reason: if you don't get just the right word, it will tell you nothing
exists.
I prefer the first
choice, as I get a wide view of what is here.
For example: scroll
down to: Janesville Past link on the main page (about the middle of the page).
The first thing you
see on this page, Janesville Past, is a
window that says "Click to browse by collection".
I would strongly
suggest you skip it this first time.
Scroll down the page you are on, and you will see more of an explanation
of the collection, keep going down, you will now see more of the collections.
Here you will find City and County Directories for Rock county
residents, businesses, Janesville and Beloit.
The directories
cover from 1857 to 1931, not
complete. Of note 1889 1890 1892/93
-a great help for filling in the blanks of the 1890 lost census.
Note the 1878-1879
directory even covers La Crosse.
All click-able, and
able to view online.
Scroll all the way
to the bottom of the page for the Additional Resources page. Obituary index/
Historical Society/Genealogical Societies.
Remember to go back
to the top of the page, and check out the collection by Subject Grouping.
Please leave your comments.
Nadine Guilbault
Wisconsin Genealogist
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