If you have Wisconsin ancestors, this site is an absolute must. It is the entry point to online digital collections of Wisconsin history materials. Click on 'Explore.' There are literally hundreds of collections. To name just a few of the big ones I have been rummaging around in:
Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records
The field notes and plat maps of the public land survey of Wisconsin are a valuable resource for original land survey information, as well as for understanding Wisconsin’s landscape history.
Wisconsin Historical Collections 1855-1915
A serial publication issued every two or three years between 1855 and 1915 by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Twenty volumes of pioneer memoirs, archival records, original journals, explorers’ narratives, interviews and other eyewitness accounts of Wisconsin’s past.
Wisconsin in the Civil War
To mark the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), the Wisconsin Historical Society created this digital collection containing dozens of diaries, regimental histories and book-length memoirs, thousands of soldiers’ letters, hundreds of newspaper articles and more than 1,000 photographs, maps and other images.
World War I Military Portraits
This collection of more than 30,000 items includes World War I service records transcribed by the Milwaukee County Chapter of the American War Mothers, portraits of service men and women in military uniform, snapshots of individuals at their homes or serving in the theater of war
