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Statewide Records that exist for Wisconsin 1820, 1830, 1840,1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 (fragment, see below), 1900, 1910, 1910, 1920 and 1940.

There are Industry and Agriculture Schedules (lists do not exist for all counties for each year) availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880.

The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Union Veterans Schedules were conducted in 1890. Census of surviving Union veterans of the Civil War or their widows, listing service information, any service-connected disability, and current address.

Wisconsin territorial and state census original schedules, with a few exceptions, are in the State Archives at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Microfilm copies are available in the microforms reading room, on interlibrary loan, and for purchase. They include the following:

  • 1836 : Names only head of household, plus numeric listing of household; published in Wisconsin Historical Collections 13 (1895): 247–70.
  • 1838: Includes name of master, mistress, steward, overseer, or other principal person; name of head of family and numeric listing of household; extant only for certain counties.
  • 1842: Similar to 1838.
  • 1846: Includes name of head of family; numeric listing of household by sex and color; some counties missing.
  • 1847: Same as 1846; some counties missing.
  • 1855: Similar to 1847, plus number of deaf and dumb, blind, or insane; includes number of individuals in each household of foreign birth; Kewaunee County not included.
  • 1865: Listing same as 1855; schedules apparently destroyed at an unknown date; some schedules survived at the county level (Dunn, Green, Jackson, Kewaunee, Ozaukee, and Sheboygan).
  • 1875: Listing similar to 1865.
  • 1885: Listing similar to 1865, plus some additional information on number of foreign-born persons and a special enumeration of “Soldiers and Sailors of the Late War.”
  • 1895: Same as 1885, including veterans' schedules.
  • 1905: Includes name of each individual, relationship to head of household, color or race, sex, age at last birthday, marital status, place of birth, place of birth of parents, occupation, number of months employed, whether home or farm is owned or rented; also includes veterans' enumeration; indexed, by county, on microfilm.

 

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