Project: Wisconsin
Categories: Wisconsin | Wisconsin Project | Wisconsin Projects
The Wisconsin Project is part of the United States Project.
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The purpose of this project is to coordinate all Wisconsin related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.
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 |
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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:

- Project Leaders:
- Coordinators: Brian Zalewski.
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Wisconsin project and get a badge.
- Add Wisconsin to your followed tags.
- We use G2G for communication.
- Here is the Wisconsin project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
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:
| ... ... ... 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}}
- Living Persons {{Wisconsin Sticker|living=y}}
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:
- Add Wisconsin-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
- If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
- Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
- Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
- Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
- Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.
List of Things to Do
- Need space pages created and developed for Wisconsin counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
- If you have any Wisconsin state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the Resources Page.
- If you live in Wisconsin please consider adding Catalog: Wisconsin Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.
Ongoing List of Things to Do
- Cemeteries in Wisconsin need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the Wisconsin Cemeteries Project
- Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Wisconsin. See the Homesteaders Project
- Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Wisconsin state tribes.
- Work on Wisconsin's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
- 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
- Work on Suggestions for profiles from Wisconsin, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
- 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.
- Help find the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) for Wisconsin Unknowns using the Profile Improvement Project Unknowns Team Process
- Help add profiles with the US Black Heritage 1880 Project Teams
Town and County Projects
- Delavan, Wisconsin
- Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930
- Jefferson County, Wisconsin Insane Asylum
- Pelican Lake, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Related Categories on WikiTree
- Wisconsin Category page
- Wisconsin Projects page
- Wisconsin, Cemeteries
- Wisconsin Colleges & Universities
- Wisconsin Governors
- Wisconsin Homesteaders
- Wisconsin Federally Recognized Native American Tribes
- Wisconsin Native American Tribes
- Wisconsin, Politicians
- Wisconsin, Religious Congregations
- Wisconsin Research Assistance
- Wisconsin Genealogy Resources
Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree
- Homesteaders Project
- Native Americans Project
- Trails and Wagon Trains Project
- The Way West Project
- Wisconsin Resource Page
- US Governors Project
- Wisconsin in the Great War
- United States in World War II
- Wisconsin Sources
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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