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La Crosse County
Area Research Center (ARC):
Location: UW - La Crosse, Murphy Library, 1631 Pine Street, 130 Murphy Library, La Crosse, WI 54601-3748
Website: https://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/collections/area-research-center/
Cemeteries:
Directions: To obtain a copy of any of the cemeteries listed, please follow the steps below. Please make checks payable to "WSGS". Please note: These transcriptions are not complete and were copied during various years before about 1990, so will not have more recent graves in them.
1. Enclose $2.00 US for postage and $0.50 per page.
2. Include the county and exact name of each cemetery you wish to order copies of.
3. Include your email address in case we have a question about your order.
4. Mail your request to: WSGS Inscriptions, P. O. Box 5106, Madison, WI 53705-0106.
FindAGrave La Crosse County, Wisconsin Cemeteries
La Crosse County Cemetery Records (Robert H. Selbrede)
Family History Centers & FamilySearch Affiliates:
La Crosse, Wisconsin Family History Center - 701 Well St., Onalaska, WI 54650, https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/LaCrosse_Wisconsin_Family_History_Center
La Crosse Public Library - Archives Department, FamilySearch Affiliate Library - 800 Main Street, La Crosse, WI 54601, http://archives.lacrosselibrary.org/
Genealogical Societies:
La Crosse Area Genealogical Society - https://www.lacrosseareagenealogicalsociety.com/, https://www.facebook.com/LaCrosseAreaGenealogicalSociety
Historical Societies:
La Crosse County Historical Society - http://www.lchshistory.org/
Bangor Area Historical Society - http://www.historicbangor.com/
Holmen Area Historical Society - http://holmenhistory.weebly.com/
Onalaska Area Historical Society - https://www.facebook.com/Onalaskaareahistoricalsociety/
West Salem Historical Society - https://westsalemhistoricalsociety.org/
Libraries:
La Crosse County Library - https://lacrossecounty.org/library
- John Bosshard Memorial Library - Bangor - https://lacrossecounty.org/library/libraries/bangor
- F.J. Robers Library - Town of Campbell (French Island) - https://lacrossecounty.org/library/libraries/campbell
- Holmen Public Library - https://lacrossecounty.org/library/libraries/holmen
- Onalaska Public Library - https://lacrossecounty.org/library/libraries/onalaska
- Hazel Brown Leicht Memorial Library - West Salem - https://lacrossecounty.org/library/libraries/west-salem
La Crosse Public Library - https://www.lacrosselibrary.org/; Archives & Local History Department - http://archives.lacrosselibrary.org/
UW-La Crosse Murphy Library - https://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/; Special Collections, Archives & Area Research Center - https://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/collections/special-collections/
Viterbo University Todd Wehr Memorial Library - https://www.viterbo.edu/library; Archives - https://www.viterbo.edu/library/archives
Links:
Cyndi's List - https://www.cyndislist.com/us/wi/counties/la-crosse/
Exploring Cultural History Online - https://www.wrlsweb.org/echo/
FamilySearch Wiki - https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/La_Crosse_County,_Wisconsin_Genealogy
Historic Map Works - Plat Maps
- La Crosse 1867 Bird's Eye View - https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/LaCrosse_Wisconsin_Family_History_Center
- La Crosse 1873 Bird's Eye View - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/8316/
- La Crosse 1887 Bird's Eye View - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/8317/
- La Crosse County 1906 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/27826/
- La Crosse County 1913 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/8427/
- La Crosse County 1972 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/10005/
- La Crosse County 1983 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/10037/
- La Crosse County 1990 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/22263/
- La Crosse County 1992 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/23268/
- La Crosse County 1993 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/10038/
- La Crosse County 2005 - http://www.historicmapworks.com/Atlas/US/29625/
History of Northern Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development, and Resources; An Extensive Sketch of Its Counties, Cities, Towns and Villages, Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories; Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; Views of County Seats, etc. (1881) - https://archive.org/details/historyofnorther00west
PBS Wisconsin Hometown Stories: La Crosse - https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/wisconsin-hometown-stories/wisconsin-hometown-stories-la-crosse/
University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Great Lakes Maritime History Project - https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AGreatLakes
- History of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Collection - https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AUWLAbout
- Maps and Atlases of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, and the Upper Mississippi River - https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ALaCrosseLocHist
- UW-La Crosse Historic Steamboat Photographs - https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ALaCrosseSteamboat
Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collection
- Biographical History of La Crosse, Monroe and Juneau Counties, Wisconsin. Containing Portraits of all the Presidents of the United States, With Accompanying Biographies of Each; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of the Counties, with Personal Histories of Many of the Early Settlers and Leading Families, 1892: https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/59398
- Biographical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau and Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin. Containing Portraits of All the Presidents of the United States, With Accompanying Biographies of Each; Engravings of Prominent Citizens of the Counties, With Personal Histories of Many of the Early Settlers and Leading Families - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/35503/rec/5
- A Brief Sketch of La Crosse, Wisc'n: Showing the Location of the Place, Its Surrounding Scenery, Commercial Advantages, Early History, and the Social, Moral, Literary, and Religious Character of the Inhabitants, and Various Other Interesting Items, 1854: https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wch&CISOPTR=28&REC=1
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History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin: Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; An Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Villages--Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; The Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, Statistics of the State, and an Abstract of its Laws and Constitution and of the Constitution of the United States, 1881: https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wch&CISOPTR=4912&REC=4
- La Crosse County Maps and Atlases - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/search/searchterm/la%20crosse%20county
- Memoirs of La Crosse County: From the Earliest Historical Times Down to the Present with Special Chapters on Various Subjects, Including Each of the Different Towns, and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families in the County, Prepared from Data Obtained from Original Sources of Information, 1907: https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/3168
- Phillipi's La Crosse City Directory: Comprising an Alphabetical List of Names, Business Department, A List of Churches, Schools, Societies and Organizations, Street and Avenue Directory, Etc. - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/71538/rec/86
- Wisconsin Jubilee: Proceedings of the Celebration by the County and City of La Crosse on Wisconsin Having Achieved Fifty Years of Statehood: La Crosse County Historical Society Organized May 28, 1898: Grand Celebration Held at La Crosse, July 4, 1898 - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/3225
Resources:
Index to Biographical History of La Crosse, Trempealeau & Buffalo Counties, Wisconsin 1892, Published by Wisconsin State Genealogical Society (1982)
Index to the History of Northern Wisconsin 1881, Published by Wisconsin State Genealogical Society (1981)