Find Your Ancestors: Wisconsin Historical Society: An Overlooked Resource You Need to Explore!

Join us in person at the library or virtually via Zoom for our monthly Find Your Ancestors series.

Registration: No registration is needed to attend the program in the library. Zoom attendees must register in advance for this program here. 

Program Topic: Wisconsin Historical Society: An Overlooked Resource You Need to Explore!

The Wisconsin Historical Society is the largest North American collection after the Library of Congress and in the top five institutions for genealogy research. In this presentation we will cover a brief history of the society and the scope of their collection, which extends beyond Wisconsin records. We will also discuss how to use the WHS's website search feature and why you should consider adding a trip to the WHS library on your genealogy to do list. 

Presented by Mary Risseeuw 

Mary Risseeuw is a genealogist, historian, writer and lecturer. She has researched 19th & 20th century Dutch immigration to Wisconsin for over 30 years and has published and lectured throughout the U.S. and the Netherlands. She serves on the Board of the Association for the Advancement of Dutch American Studies and hosted their 2011 conference in Wisconsin. She also organized and hosted the Dutch in Wisconsin Conference in 2008; the first Dutch studies conference to focus solely on Dutch immigration to Wisconsin. She has a B.S. from UW-Madison and M.A. & M.F.A. from Northern Illinois University.