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Information If You Are Coming To Manitowoc County For Research
Helpful Information How to Use this Site. Please read.
Name Translations First Names and Surnames and what they mean.
Manitowoc County Surname Registry
List of Contributors Would contributors please update their addresses?
2 Manitowoc Hall of Fame People who have gone above and beyond in contributing to this site.
A short history of Germany to help you find the area you need.
Translations of Common Foreign Words found on Tombstones
 | In Loving Memory of Shari Anne Milks 1942 - 2019 |
| Beverly will maintain the website. | |
| These volunteers will do lookups: When requesting information, please be as specific as you can in your inquiry. I can always use more volunteers for lookups or helping with the files if anyone wants to offer. NOTE: Please do not ask for an obit giving only a year. This is asking the volunteer to look through hundreds of newspapers to find an obit. | |
Need volunteer for lookups | Mary Lou For Civil war queries |
| Sue She will not be available again until Oct. 2017 | |
| Need a volunteer for this space. | Someone want to fill this blank space? |
| Kent For Civil war queries | |
Notice:
For people who use information from this site for their family trees and want to put a source
down, please use 2manitowoc.com for the source because from time to time I have to split files
and that may change the address you put with the information. You could put 2manitowoc.com
and then name the general section you found what you needed..such as marriages, cemetery
number/name, glass negatives, etc.
| CEMETERY TRANSCRIPTIONS/OBITUARIES Total of obituaries as of Jan 01, 2024: 90,586 |
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List of Cemeteries by Township, with transcriptions. Obituaries are linked to the person's name and tombstone photos have a separate link as do photos of a person. Note: Until cemeteries were established, many early settlers buried their dead in the forests and just anywhere in the fields. |
| MASTER LIST OF SURNAMES IN CEMETERIES |
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I have numbered the cemeteries, and beside each surname you will find a series of numbers that correspond with the cemeteries. This should save you having to look through every one to find the name you're looking for, as the surname will be only be found in the cemetery or cemeteries with those numbers.
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| Burials Not found in Township Cemetery listing [ A-B ] [ C ] [ D-F ] [ G ] [ H-I ] [ J ] [ K ] [ L ] [ M ] [ N-Q ] [ R ] [ S ] [ T-Z ] |
| CREMATIONS - NO CEMETERY NAMED |
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| No way to determine final disposition of ashes |
| PRE-1907 DEATH INDEX by DATE |
| According to Date: (Note: 1851-1859 includes unknown dates) (Important note: The notations in the remarks portion of the pages are suggestions only. They are put there to help researchers but please do the research to verify the suggestions.)
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[1860-1869]
[1870-1873]
[1874-1876]
[1877-1878]
[1879]
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| PRE-1907 DEATH INDEX by SURNAME |
| Combined Courthouse and Microfiche: (Important note: The notations in the remarks portion of the pages are suggestions only. They are put there to help researchers but please do the research to verify the suggestions.)
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1850 and 1870 Census Mortality List [A - L]
1850 and 1870 Census Mortality List [M - Z]
Death and Burials from First German Evangelical Lutheran Church 1856-1874
Death and Burials from St. John's Lutheran Church Newton 1851-1991
Deaths from St. Peter St. Paul Church, Kiel
People Who Died in Manitowoc County and are Buried Elsewhere
People Who Died Elsewhere and Were Buried There and Had Relatives in Manitowoc County
Centenarians - Cems. 1-43aa
Centenarians - Cems. 44-90
(People who lived to be 100 years or older)
What the county and state charge for copies of records
A researcher just sent this information in about where you can get copies of records:
Pre-1907 births, marriages, and deaths for Manitowoc County can also be ordered
through the Green Bay Area Research Center at the Cofrin Library, UWGB, for $5 --
as opposed to the $20 you'd have to pay at the courthouse or through the vital
records bureau.
You'll have to google the address of the Cofrin Library. They keep changing it.
That way you will have the latest information from their site.
| MARRIAGES/FAMILIES IN MANITOWOC COUNTY |
| Includes Newspaper Articles and Links to Biographies
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Cross Index for Wives in the Marriages
What the county and state charge for copies of records
| The True marriage bill was passed by the assembly yesterday and with the Governor's signature, the bill will become a law. It requires that a license must be obtained five days before the marriage ceremony is performed. Boys, get a move on yourself if you desire to "fool" the legislators and escape the fee. Manitowoc Daily Herald, Manitowoc, Wis. Saturday, April 1, 1899 P.4 |
| Parents should remember the duty which the law imposes on them in regard to the registering of births that occur in their families. The law limits the time in which to perform this duty to thirty days. Frequent notices of this requirement have been given through the city press, and it is hoped that in the future it will be universally observed. Manitowoc Daily Herald, Manitowoc, Wis. Thursday, May 25, 1899 P.2 |
Pre-1907 Birth Index from microfiche
Births Announced in newspapers
The dates are the dates of the newspaper. Some have the birth date also.
Pre-1907 Delayed Births
(births registered 365 days or more after birth)
Pre-1907 Marriage Index from microfiche
Pre-1907 Marriage Index Volume A Sorted by Sequence Numbers
Pre-1907 Marriage Index Volume B sorted by year
| NEWS ITEMS FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS |
| NEWS (People) [ A ] [ B ] [ BO ] [ C ] [ D ] [ E ] [ F ] [ G ] [ H ] [ I - J ] [ K ] [ L ] [ M ] [ N - O ] [ P - Q ] [ R ] [ S ] [ SI ] [ T ] [ U - V ] [ W ] [ Y - Z ] The funny, the sad, the good, the bad....and the downright ugly. I decided to combine news about people into alphabetical order here except the births from the newspapers and the military pensions which will be linked to in the military section, and most anniversaries which will be in the marriage pages. BRIDGES, PIERS AND LIGHTHOUSES CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT DECISIONS COUNTY ROADS AND STREET DEVELOPMENT
LIFE IN THE EARLY 1900s
LISTS OF LETTERS AT POST OFFICE RAILROAD IN MANITOWOC CO. NEWS
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS - from newspapers
Jan. 18, 1838 - The territory approves an act entitled
Today's Herald Times Reporter online -Great Place to watch for current obits.
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| Women will be obliged to give their correct age in the coming census. The new law says: "Women who refuse to tell their ages or indulge in inaccurate statements thereof, as well as all other persons refusing to reply to questions or making false statements, shall, on conviction be fined one hundred dollars." Manitowoc Daily Herald, Manitowoc, Wis. Saturday, May 27, 1899 P.2 |
| 1821 Voters List 1822 State Census 1829 Petition List done (Brown County) 1836 State done (Brown County) 1837 State done 1840 Federal done 1842 State done 1850 Federal done 1860 Federal done 1870 Federal done 1880 Federal done |
What happened to the 1890 Census? 1895 Veterans Census done 1906 St. Peter and St. Paul Church, Kiel WI census
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| INDEX TO MANITOWOC COURT RECORDS 1849-1905 Also added Newspaper published court notices of Wills, Foreclosures, Bankruptcies, Etc. |
| Probate records dating back to 1850 are at the Manitowoc County Courthouse. It costs $4 per name for them to search for someone. $1 per page for copies. No cost to search in person, copies still $1 per page. Some records are on microfilm. If you need those printed they have to be sent over to the Manitowoc library so you will not get the copies that day (if you're doing this in person). Cofrin library in Green Bay (area research center) also has Manty probate records. They will also pull them for a fee. Here is what they told me in an email: We do have Manitowoc probate records that date from 1869. We do not have the actual index, it is still at the Manitowoc Probate Office. You may either contact them directly or send us the request via our website. Cofrin Library request forms
Information can be obtained at the website. |
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| DECLARATION OF INTENT (Immigration Records) |
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| SETTLERS TO MANITOWOC, COUNTY IN 1800'S (partial list) |
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| CIVIL WAR | |
| Dennis Moore's Civil War Roster | The Civil War Roundtable, Manitowoc is no longer on the internet Civil War Company Rosters From "History of Manitowoc County" Wisconsin Civil War Regiment Index (Includes link to list of battles fought) Wisconsin Civil War Medal of Honor Recipients List of Pensioners on the Roll 1883 Also now includes announcements of pensions awarded from the old newspapers. Manitowoc Soldiers & Sailors Regimental Reunion Roster, 1880 Includes some Manitowoc Musket accounts of battles from Lakeshore Times, 1881 List of Draft Deferments 1890 Veterans Schedule |
SPANISH AMERICAN WAR [ A - L ]| SPANISH AMERICAN WAR [ M - Z ] | |
| VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I |
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[Army [M - Z] ]
[Marine Corps] |
| VETERANS OF WORLD WAR II | |
World War II [A - G] [H - L]| World War II [M - Z] | Purple Heart Recipients from WW II |
KOREAN WAR [ A - L ]| KOREAN WAR [ M - Z ] | |
| VIETNAM [ A - L ] |
| VIETNAM [ M - Z ] |
| Vietnam virtual wall Find anyone who is on the Vietnam memorial |
| SCHOOL STUDENT PHOTOS WITH NAMES |
| From Yearbooks and School board Annuals in chronological order
1918-1919 Graded School Declamatory Contest Winners
1919-1920 Graded School Declamatory Contest Winners
Manitowoc 8th grade graduation 1923
Lincoln High, Manitowoc Seniors 1927 [A - L] [M - Z] 1928-1929 Graduates and Contest Winners
Lincoln High, Manitowoc Seniors 1929 [A - L] [M - Z] 1933-1934 Graduates and Contest Winners
Two Rivers Seniors 1919 [A - L] [M - Z]
Two Rivers Seniors 1921 [A - L] [M - Z]
Two Rivers Seniors 1936 [A - L] [M - Z]
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| GROUP PHOTOS WITH NAMES |
| The photos in this section are from the Wentorf collection at the Lester Library in Two Rivers, unless otherwise noted.
Turning Classes 1883 - girls and ladies
St. Wenceslaus Society 1890-1900
Members of Zion Lutheran church ca.1915 Louis Corners, Schleswig twp.
Freier Sangerbund Singing Society, 1895
Saengerbund picnic July 1902 - Sons of Herman
Children: Klingholz, Maier, Schuette, Gray, Rahr, Fechter, Buerstatte
Groups of people from Kiel area
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Shipwrecks off Manitowoc County Ships built in Manitowoc and Two Rivers Ship Captains of the Great Lakes Captain's Certificates
The wages of all seamen on the lakes have been increased $5 per month. The |
| Family Histories on the Web
The Following Four Sets of Pictures Belong with the Hacker Family History in
Hacker Family Pictures
Family Histories in the Manitowoc Public Library Index to "Early Manitowoc History" by John Harmon
Interview with Nelson LeClair
"Early Days in Two Rivers Wisconsin" by Arthur Lohman 1909
Surnames: Albee, Albers, Aldrich, Allee, Allen, Allie, Alonzo, Arndt, Arnolds, Baetz,
RALPH G. PLUMB - "A History of Manitowoc County - 1904 (Transcribed by Jan)
GHOST PARISHES AND CEMETERIES OF MANITOWOC COUNTY
GLASS NEGATIVE PHOTOS
More of the Glass Negative collection
JUST PLAIN FUN STUFF for your amusement and enjoyment. |
| SHEBOYGAN
ELLEN'S SITES, MILWAUKEE, WAUKESHA, WASHINGTON COUNTIES: |
| "Manitowoc-skogen"/Robert Bjerke Important research on Norwegians in Manitowoc county. Manitowoc County Historical Society
Manitowoc Library
Mishicot Historical Museum Special Links to help with your research |
[NOTE: There are errors in this ad..the author of the books is Bob Domagalski;
the streets book is only 800 pages long; the phone number given is 920 area code;
the books combined have over 1,000 photos.]
The proceeds from these books are to help establish a St. Nazianz Area Historical
Museum in St. Nazianz.
