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Local History & Genealogy

History of SML

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Microfilm Machine

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Selected Wisconsin and Local History Materials In Our Collection

Manawa Advocate (local newspaper) on microfilm, 1895-1998
Microfilm reader/printer is available for use in library. Copies are $.15

Cemetery Records, “All Waupaca County cemeteries and burials between 1860-1980? 13 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. Microfilm reader/printer is available for use in library. Copies are $.15 each.
Author: Guyant, Wayne and Guyant, Alta

Marriage Records 1903-1987 from St. Lukes Lutheran Church, Big Falls, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Compiled by Tory Suehs

Confirmation Records 1903-1987 St. Lukes Lutheran Church, Big Falls, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Compiled by Tory Suehs

Death/Burial Records 1903-1987 St. Lukes Lutheran Church, Big Falls, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Compiled by Tory Suehs

Baptism Records 1899-1988 St. Lukes Lutheran Church, Big Falls, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Compiled by Tory Suehs

Wisconsin Genealogical Research
Author: Herrick, Linda M.

Wisconsin Pre-1907 Birth and Death Index (microfiche)
Donated by the Waupaca Area Genealogical Society(WAGS), available for viewing in the library

Ogdensburg and the Town of St. Lawrence : history and memories
Author: Golla, Agnes M.

St. Paul’s School, 1891-1991 (Manawa, WI)
Author: Craig, Pat
Chief

Manawa and Manawa Brave
Author: Niven, Alice J.

The Pioneers of Little Wolf Township : including historical record of events from 1848-1973
Author: Wegener, Evelyn M.

Little Wolf Annual
(Manawa, WI) 1914-present

Stretching Waters : an historical guide to the Chain O’ Lakes, Waupaca, Wisconsin
Author: Sturm, John, Jr.

“Ghost” Towns of Waupaca County
Author: Waupaca County Historical Society

Early History of Waupaca, Wis.
Author: Dewey, Freeman Dana

History of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran
Little Wolf River Country : an early history of the area
Author: Cooney, Eleanore V.

History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Author: Wakefield, J. (Josephus)

History of Waupaca County, Volumes I and II
Author: Ware, John

Wisconsin’s Past and Present : a historical atlas
Author: Wisconsin Cartographers’ Guild

A Genealogical Research Guide to Waupaca County
Author: Wollangk, Judy and The Waupaca Area Genealogical Society

Cemetery Locations in Wisconsin
Author: Herrick, Linda M and Uncapher, Wendy K.

Family Histories in Our Collection

Book of Remembrance (Fietzer, Fetzer, Fitzer, Fetzer family)
Author: Baldwin, Dorothy

The Baldwins of the past, the present, the future
Author: Baldwin, Dorothy

The Friedrich Wilhelm Much family : a family tree of the Muchs of Northern Waupaca County in Wisconsin
Author: Rahr, Mary

New Echoes From Old Escapades : a collection of reminisces and memories and history of the Zillmer Miller families of Dupont and Marion, Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Author: Miller, Delores Zillmer

Marquardt family : 100 years of history
Author: Freckmann, Sally Kauss

The Lust family History
Author: Miller, Russell

My Family
Author: Young, Marion R.

A Short History of the Families and Descendants of Ernest Zempel and Ida Pidde
Author: Handrich, William C.

Descendants of Karl Ludwig Schewe
Author: Allen, Betty Jahsman

Klingbeil : family history genealogy
Author: Miller, Delores Zillmer

The Shopodocks : a Potawatomi Indian story : a sesquicentennial project
Author: Miller, Delores Zillmer

Christian Hanson, 1820-1895 : from Gjerpen to Iola
Author: Paulson, Joan

The Schneiderwendt-Riske family history
Author: Glocke, Hilda Marie

The History of the Glocke-Drath family
Author: Glocke, Kenneth Arnold

Carl Raasch : his descendants in America
Author: Raasch, Robert LaVern

The Greely family : 1832 to 1982
Author: Lees, Margrit Hamilton

History of Peter P. Hershberger and Leah Hochstetler. Their ancestors and descendants from 1736 to 1970
Author: Hershberger, Leo Daniel

The O’Briens of Lebanon
Author: O’Brien, Gene; O’Brien, Ethyl; O’Brien, Florence