Milwaukee County
Online Genealogy and Family History LibraryThis page was constructed to give you information on how to use this site and how to find what you are looking for. Hopefully those initial questions can be answered here, and save you some time.
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Helpful Hints
There are roughly 1000 pages of information on this Milwaukee Genealogy site. Use the search on the top left-hand corner of the page to search for your surname. Remember to use alternate spellings. If you can't find it on the site, I probably don't have any more information. Although new content comes in all the time. So keep checking back.
Click on What's New to see the most recent additonas to the site.
PLEASE READ THE INFORMATION AT THE TOP OF EACH PAGE. WE PUT THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THERE ABOUT THAT FILE.
Marriages, biographies, births, and interesting news articles can be found by going to the Births and Marriages pages and clicking on the name.
There is an obituary section with a list of all the obituaries found on the site. Obituaries can also be found in the individual cemeteries, linked to the name.
Tombstone Photos can be found by going to the Linking Your Past Photo Gallery.
When referring to a cemetery, please call it by number and not name. That helps us identify it easier since there are several by the same name.
Any deaths we find in the county without a known cemetery, will be put in Cemetery X. If you find someone in cemetery X that you can identify, please email us with the correct location and we will place the name correctly.
All towns are Milwaukee County unless otherwise noted.
What happened to the 1890 Census?
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A quick way to search
When you are at a page, if you hold the control(ctrl) button and the f button down at the same time, a find box will appear. Type in the surname and click find next. Be sure to try alternate spellings.
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How to save information
To copy the information off a page,
1) click and hold your left mouse button and highlight the area you want
to save.
2) Then click on edit/copy from the menu at the top of your screen or click
the ctrl key and the C key (at the same time)
3) Open a file to copy it to
4) Paste the information into the file by going to the Edit Paste menu
at the top of the screen or click the ctrl and V key at the same time.
5) You can then print the info if you wish.
To get a picture, right click on it, click on "save image as" and save it to a file.
Good luck.
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Terms and Abbreviations
b. means born
d. died
m. married
p. in the marriages and births means Parents (if not preceded by a v.)
v. and p. or pg. numbers are volume and page number of the vital record at the courthouse.
OSSW in the cemetery means on same stone with
SSDI in the cemetery means Social Security Death Index
Translations of Common Foreign Words found on Tombstones
Old Trivia and Wives' Tales-this section is a collection point for old wives tales and information on how phrases and saying came to be.
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Submissions
If anyone has information on families from Milwaukee county we would be more than happy to incorporate it into the pages..pictures are a plus. They can be scanned and emailed, or photocopied and mailed. The pictures will be put with the family information.[ Back to top ]
Contributors
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Lookups
Can't find what you are looking for?
The link to the lookup volunteers list is on the bottom and side of each page.
You can always ask, we have a few volunteers that will do lookups. (p.s. we are always looking for more volunteers if you have the time)
Be sure to be as specific as possible when requesting information. (we are pretty good at puzzles, but we have to have the pieces to start)
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