Milwaukee County Wisconsin Genealogy

St. Stanislaus Catholic Parish

Death Register A-L

Index of Death Register

The author of this index, Mary Popovich, has been researching Polish families since 1983, and has been on staff at the Peoria Arizona LDS Family History Center since 1987.

St. Stanislaus was Milwaukee's first Polish parish, and the only Polish parish to include place of origin in marriage and death entries with any consistency. Although the microfilmed death register extends from 1866 to 1920, the individual's place of origin was often listed as "Poznan," "Prussia," "Poland," "Europe" or left the column blank.

This index omits persons whose place of origin was listed as Prusy (Prussia). With one possible exception, it also omits all deaths of persons whose birthplace was within Milwaukee County.

The author's apologies for incorrectly spelled surnames; some handwriting was difficult to read. The same applies to the places of origin themselves, most of which were unfamiliar to the author, and perhaps to the priest himself. For the most part, the place of origin is a literal transcription. Author's comments ("educated guess" or "correction") are in brackets. Text in parentheses, however, are literal transcriptions from the parish register. The tilde indicates that the character immediately preceding is one of the special characters in the Polish alphabet that do not translate into the format for an Internet database.

If this index helps you locate your ancestor's place of origin, say a prayer of thanks for Father P. Szulercki, who was solely responsible for maintaining St. Stanislaus's death register for the years 1895 to 1911.

An index of St. Stan's marriage records for the period 1877 to 1911, listing brides' and grooms' places of origin, is currently in progress. The years 1900-1909 has been indexed and published them in book form ($12 including postage). Contact Mary Popovich for request.