Project: Wisconsin

Categories: Wisconsin | Wisconsin Project | Wisconsin Projects


The Wisconsin Project is part of the United States Project.

Welcome to the Wisconsin Project!

The purpose of this project is to coordinate all Wisconsin related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.

Wisconsin Counties
Adams Ashland Barron Bayfield Brown Buffalo Burnett Calumet Chippewa
Clark Columbia Crawford Dane Dodge Door Douglas Dunn Eau Claire
Florence Fond du Lac Forest Grant Green Green Lake Iowa Iron Jackson
Jefferson Juneau Kenosha Kewaunee La Crosse Lafayette Langlade Lincoln Manitowoc
Marathon Marinette Marquette Menominee Milwaukee Monroe Oconto Oneida Outagamie
Ozaukee Pepin Pierce Polk Portage Price Racine Richland Rock
Rusk Sauk Sawyer Shawano Sheboygan St. Croix Taylor Trempealeau Vernon
Vilas Walworth Washburn Washington Waukesha Waupaca Waushara Winnebago Wood

Contents

How to Join

It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of Wisconsin or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:

Are you interested in the Wisconsin Project?united_states.gif

For a full list of participants in the United States Project, see the badge report.

Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.

Templates

The template is {{United States|sub-project=Wisconsin}} which will give you:

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... ... ... is a part of Wisconsin history.
Join: Wisconsin Project
Discuss: Wisconsin

This above template is for use only on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd and managed by the project.

It is not for every single person from Wisconsin. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance:

Wisconsin Sticker Directions
Deceased persons {{Wisconsin Sticker}}
... ... ... was a Wisconsinite.
Living Persons {{Wisconsin Sticker|living=y}}
... ... ... is a Wisconsinite.

The sticker will also accept free-form text in place of "a Wisconsinite." See Template:Wisconsin Sticker for some examples of how you can use it to highlight your ancestor's particular role or place in the history of Wisconsin.

Goals

The overall goals of the US History Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in the state of Wisconsin. To meet these goals:

  1. Add Wisconsin-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
  2. If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
  3. Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
  4. Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
  5. Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
  6. Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.

List of Things to Do

  1. Need space pages created and developed for Wisconsin counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
  2. If you have any Wisconsin state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the Resources Page.
  3. If you live in Wisconsin please consider adding Catalog: Wisconsin Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.

Ongoing List of Things to Do

  1. Cemeteries in Wisconsin need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the Wisconsin Cemeteries Project
  2. Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Wisconsin. See the Homesteaders Project
  3. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Wisconsin state tribes.
  4. Work on Wisconsin's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
  5. Create new profiles for people of Wisconsin who are documented in a family member's profile, but might not have their own profiles yet. See Needs Profiles Created
  6. Work on Suggestions for profiles from Wisconsin, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
  7. Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from Wisconsin in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.

Town and County Projects

Wisconsin Related Categories on WikiTree

Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree

Resources

Online Publications

  • Wisconsin Medical Journal: Physician obituary index, 1903-2008 (only brief "In Remembrance" listings were published 2004-2008). Ebling Library
  • Wisconsin State Historical Society Name Index. WHS Name Index. Online index referencing materials available at the library. If you provide the reference details, help obtaining a specific obituary may be able to be provided by J Sundance.


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