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WHERE TO FIND IT- 
OCONTO COUNTY

The Special Collections Department provides one hour of free research (plus photocopying and processing fees) to anyone who cannot visit us in person. An Extended Research Option is available for research requiring longer than the free hour. We take requests via mail, fax, phone, e-mail, and over the internet.
Questions are researched in the order that we receive them. Typical response time is 3-4 weeks

City - Address - Telephone Number
Appleton - 425 West Park Ridge Avenue - 920-733-5358
Eau Claire - 3335 Stein Boulevard - 715-834-8271
Hales Corner - 9600 West Grange Avenue - 414-425-4182
Kenosha - 1444 30th Avenue - 414-552-7816
Madison - 4505 Regent Street - 608-238-4844
Milwaukee - See Hales Corner
Shawano - 910 East Zingler Avenue - 715-526-2946
Wausau - 5405 Rib Mountain Drive - 715-355-4856
West Bend - 120 East Paradise Drive - 414-338-6123

Family History Centers (FHC) are branches of the main Morman library in Utah, and are located all over the U.S. and the world, usually alongside local LDS churches.
Many Family History Centers have a computer and the FamilySearch software for searching the databases listed here.
The Family History Library Catalog (FHLC) records, on microfiche and CD-ROM, all the books, documents, microfilms and other materials in the library. It is the equivalent of a super "card catalog," searchable by locality, author/title, surname, subject, and foreign-language locality.
The International Genealogical Index (IGI) is an alphabetical index on microfiche and CD-ROM of millions of names of deceased persons, taken from genealogies submitted to the church or from original vital records. Reference numbers in the IGI show the source of the record, which allows a researcher to find and study the original entry form, which might contain more information.
And more: Ancestral File is a database of pedigrees and family groups submitted by any genealogist who wants to share information on family research; the U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI) of people whose deaths, mostly between 1935 and 1993, were reported to the Social Security Administration; and the Military Index of servicemen and women who died during the Korean and Vietnam wars.
 

The second largest genealogy library in the nation, this Indiana library has been known for years as a top quality resource and includes among it's holdings:

Family Histories more than 38,000 volumes.
Census Records Federal 1790-1920, soundexes, indexes,Civil War Union Veterans and Widows schedules, Mortality schedules 1850-1880
State and Territorial Census All from Wisconsin1836-1905
City Directories and Rural Areas 1785-present
Passenger Lists In book and microfilm form.
Military Records includes most National Archives service and pension records from the Revolutionary War to the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Native American Records
African American Records
Canadian Records
British Isles Records England, Scotland, Ireland - 1538-1854
Germany and Other Countries
Periodicals
PERCI
Mormon FHC Catalog I.G.I., Ancestral File, Family Search on Computer
And Lots More!

All Catholic Church records for northeastern Wisconsin, including those before WI statehood (1848) are kept on microfilm at the Diocese of Green Bay Archives. This includes the mission churches
and parishes that no longer exist. Records include all presently used and older, closed Catholic cemeteries.

The Diocesan Archives has had a new Archivist since March 2001. His name is John LeDoux.
They have been accepting requests since about then and you are
welcome to their Diocese of Green Bay Archives Website:
www.gbdioc.org
or to write directly to Assistant Archivist Kris Beisser Matthies (she is also a very skilled, certified genealogist with years of experience in area records):
kmatthies@gbdioc.org
as she answers at least 90% of the queries that come in.

They take appointments for researchers to come in on Tuesdays three weeks of the month.  It is necessary  to contact the Archives first and make an appointment as they only have a limited number of readers. They are happy to work on any requests that come in but they get so many that there is always at least two months wait.  They suggest a donation of $15.00 an hour to help defray the costs of storage and film maintanance, 25 cents per copy plus postage. They prefer people not to send money in advance but will let them know
how much time was spent (usually they have to limit the time on any one request to an hour because of the volume).