Racine County, Wisconsin Biographies
Over 400 biographies taken from Racine, Belle City of the lakes, and Racine County, Wisconsin : a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement.
Wisconsin Name Index
Starting
about 1870, Society librarians made a catalog card for every
biographical sketch included in each new Wisconsin county history. They
made a similar card for every obituary added to the scrapbooks they
called the “Wisconsin Necrology.” In addition, they frequently added
catalog cards for magazine and newspaper articles about Wisconsin
residents. IN all, more than 1,500 publications were indexed by
Wisconsin Historical Society librarians. After more than a century of
such work, the data on the original cards was typed into a database by
state employees. In 2003 and 2004, 50,000 more records were added
through an agreement WISDEX: Wisconsin biography index.