Cross-posted from the FGS 2013 conference news blog:
Is Wisconsin on your way to or from the 2013 FGS conference in Fort
Wayne? You'll love the Badger State's hospitable research stopovers –
and leave your down coat at home: August is a good time to visit.
Wisconsin Historical Society
816 State Street, Madison
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/
That's
library AND archives, including pre-1907 vital records (index on line),
US census agriculture schedules, and a famous newspaper collection. If
have time for only one stop en route to Fort Wayne, this is it.
13 Area Research Centers
La
Crosse, Platteville, Whitewater, Parkside, Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Green
Bay, Stevens Point, Eau Claire, Stout, River Falls, Superior, and
Ashland
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/arcnet/
Check out the map and links to localized holdings in 13 places besides Madison. (La Crosse has steamboat photographs.)
Milwaukee Public Library
814 West Wisconsin, Milwaukee
http://www.mpl.org/file/hum_genealogy.htm
Sailors in your pedigree? Check out the Great Lakes Marine Collection, including data on more than 10,000 ships: http://www.mpl.org/file/hum_marine_index.htm
Harold Henderson, "On Wisconsin and On to FGS Fort Wayne," Midwestern Microhistory: A Genealogy Blog, posted 17 February 2013 (http://midwesternmicrohistory.blogspot.com : accessed [access date]). [Please feel free to link to the specific post if you prefer.]
Sunday, February 17, 2013
On Wisconsin and On to FGS Fort Wayne
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Ten Thousand Ships in Milwaukee
Most folks take an interest in the vessels that carried their ancestors across the ocean, but how many of us know how much information there is on the boats that carried our people across the Great Lakes, from New York and Pennsylvania to Michigan or Wisconsin?
Right now I'm wishing I lived closer to Milwaukee (although at least I can get there entirely by train :-)). That's where the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society and the Milwaukee Public Library have consolidated the work of many Lakes aficionados into a Great Lakes Marine File that holds, among other things, records of more than 10,000 lake-going ships of all kinds from 1679 to 2008 and counting. Don't miss this chance to make our forebears' experiences real.
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