Genealogy

written by Karina

The Southwest Wisconsin Room on the UW-Platteville campus is the area’s best resource for research on genealogy and local history. For more information on their holdings

Getting to the Southwest Wisconsin Room from the library:
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The Southwest Wisconsin Room is on the lower level of the Ullsvik Center. If you enter the Ullsvik Center from the south entrance (the terraced entrance next to the circle drive on Pine Street), you will walk straight ahead past the box office to the Southwest Wisconsin Room.

The Platteville Public Library has the following items on microfilm:

  • Biographical Record of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa, and Lafayette counties
  • Civil War Veterans, 1890 – 1900
  • Grant County Census 1850 – 1920, except 1890
  • Grant County Witness, 5/26/1859 – 12/1906
  • Platteville Examiner, 2/11/1858 – 5/27/1858
  • Platteville Independent American, 1/11/1845 – 10/23/1857
  • Platteville Journal, 2/22/1901 – 12/2006 (1/2007 – present in paper form)
  • Platteville Witness, 1907 – 1937
  • State Census for Grant County, 1905
  • United Methodist Church of Platteville, 1841 – 1943 ministerial records
  • Wisconsin County Histories 1900, no. 85-86
  • Wisconsin Necrology, 1846 – 1944

Census records through 1930 are also available on HeritageQuest. HeritageQuest is available to Platteville Public Library cardholders through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s Badgerlink.

FamilySearch is a free genealogy website with a searchable database. It is accessible to everyone, and is provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

All are welcome to visit the Platteville Public Library and use the library resources. However, library staff are not able to conduct genealogical research on behalf of others.