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The Laurie History Room of the Door County Library Sturgeon Bay branch offers an extensive genealogy and local history collection. Resources available include local newspapers on microfilm, 1862 to date, a local newspaper obituary index, family histories, a cemetary index, marriage indexes, city directories, high school and college yearbooks, a census database and federal and state censuses on microfilm, plat maps, biographies and histories of Door County, works by local authors, and much more.
 

Door County vital records are held in the Door County Register of Deeds in the Door County Government Building and at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Vital Records. More information at:        

Old Sturgeon Bay Library

Door County Register of Deeds
421Nebraska St.
Sturgeon Bay, WI  54235
(920) 746-2270
 
Wisconsin Vital Records
P.O. Box 309
Madison, WI  53701-0309
(608) 267-7820
 
GENEALOGY RESEARCH 
Ancestry.com (library use only)
Heritage Quest Online (home or library use)

Wisconsin Genealogy Index

NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Access News Archives (home or library use)
Google Patents

Wisconsin Newspapers Digital Research Site

LOCAL HISTORY BOOKS AND ARTICLES
(large file)

Manitowoc Skogen (nearby Norwegian families)

ONLINE RESOURCES

Wisconsin Marine Historical Society

 
 
 
LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS