Wisconsin Genealogy Resources
Immigration Records
- Freeman, Samuel. The Emigrant's Hand Book, and Guide to
Wisconsin Comprising Information Respecting Agricultural and
Manufacturing Employment, Wages, Climate, Population &C. :
Sketch of Milwaukee, the Queen City of the Lakes, It's Rise and
Progress, Busines and Population, List of Public Officers, with
a Full and Accurate Table of Statistical Information of That and
Other Ports on Lake Michigan : Also Table of Routes from
New-York , Boston &C. to Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha, List of
Steamboats &C., and Other General Information to Immigrants.
Milwaukee: Sentinel and Gazette Power Press Print, 1851. <http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/search.asp?id=67>.
- Freeman, Samuel. The Emigrant's Hand Book and Guide to
Wisconsin: Comprising Information Respecting Agricultural and
Manufacturing Employment, Wages, Climate, Population &C.; Sketch
of Milwaukee, the Queen City of the Lakes, Its Rise and
Progress, Business and Population, List of Public Officers, with
a Full and Accurate Table of Statistical Information of That and
Other Ports on Lake Michigan : Also Table of Routes from
New-York, Boston, &C., to Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha; List of
Steamboats &C., and Other General Information to Emigrants.
La Crosse, Wis: Brookhaven Press, 1998.
- Freund, Hanns Egon. Emigration records from the German
Eifel region, 1834-1911. Crystal Lake, Ill. : McHenry County
Illinois Genealogical Society, 1991. Alphabetical list of
emigrants from the Eifel region, "with major emphasis on those
emigrants whose final destinations were Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan."
- Johnson, Martin William. Old Lutherans in Wisconsin &
Minnesota [microform] : membership lists, cemeteries, passenger
lists, etc. / transcribed by Martin Wm. Johnson. Belvidere,
IL : M.W. Johnson, [1990] 2 microfiches : ill. Includes records
from Lutheran churches and cemeteries in Wisconsin and
Minnesota, passenger lists of Lutherans 32 . Arriving in New
York, N.Y. and emigrating to upper New York State and Wisconsin
in 1843, and the 1870 census for Pierce County, Neb. Title on
header: 1842-1899 old Lutherans in Wis. & Minn. Includes
passenger lists of Lutherans arriving in New York, N. Y. who
emigrated to upper New York State and Wisconsin in 1843.
- The National Archives does not have passenger arrival lists
for Milwaukee or any other Wisconsin port. Immigrants who came
to Wisconsin generally arrived at a US East coast port or a
Canadian port (Quebec was often used) before moving on to
Wisconsin.
- The National Archives has Crew Lists only for the following
Wisconsin ports (microfilm publication numbers are given at the
beginning of each listing).
- M2005 - Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Ashland,
Wisconsin, August 1922 - October, 1954; 2 rolls
- M2044 - Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Ashland,
Kenosha, Marinette, Sheboygan, Sturgeon Bay and Washburn,
Wisconsin, 1926-1956; 1 roll
- M2045 - Crew Lists of Vessels Arriving at Manitowoc,
Wisconsin, 1925-1956; 1 roll
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Palmini, Cathleen. Across the unknown waters to Wisconsin: the
migration narratives of four women settlers, pp.
105-120. Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters,
©2000.
- Smith, Clifford Neal. Immigrants to America (mainly
Wisconsin) from the former Recklinghausen district
(Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany) around the middle of the
nineteenth century. McNeal, Ariz. : Westland Publications,
1983. iv, 28 p. (German-American genealogical research
monograph, ISSN 0094-7806 ; no. 15) Alphabetical list of
emigrants from the Recklinghausen district, many of whom settled
in Wisconsin.
- Strohschänk and William Thiel. Wisconsin Office of
Emigration, 1852-1855. Max Kade Institute for
German-American Studies, 2004.
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Wisconsin Immigration & Naturalization Project. From:
USGenWeb.
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Wisconsin Naturalization & Citizenship Records and Substitutes.
From Olive Tree
Genealogy.