Wisconsin State Genealogical Society - Rusk County

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Rusk County

Area Research Center (ARC):

Location: UW-Eau Claire Special Collections and Archives, McIntyre Library, 103 Garfield Avenue, Eau Claire, WI 54701

Website: https://library.uwec.edu/archives/genealogy-resources/

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.

List of Cemeteries Available

FindAGrave Rusk County, Wisconsin Cemeteries

Historical Societies:

Bruce Historical Society Museum - https://ruskcountywi.com/bruce-historical-society-museum/

Rusk County Historical Society Museum - http://ruskcountymuseum.com/, https://www.facebook.com/ruskcountymuseum/

Libraries:

Bruce Area Library - https://www.bruceal.org/

Hawkins Area Library - https://hawkinspl.org/

Rusk County Community Library - Ladysmith - https://ladysmithpl.org/

Links:

Cyndi's List - https://www.cyndislist.com/us/wi/counties/rusk/

FamilySearch Wiki - https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Rusk_County,_Wisconsin_Genealogy

GenealogyInc.com Rusk County, Wisconsin Genealogy, History & Facts - https://www.genealogyinc.com/wisconsin/rusk-county/

Historic Map Works

University of Wisconsin Digital Collection

Around the Four Corners: A Pioneer History of the Washburn, Sawyer, Barron and Rusk Counties, 1971 - https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/KXPNEMKKAOIC28X
Barron, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pepin, St. Croix, and Rusk Counties: Local History Collections - https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/IFLSLocHist
History of Rusk County, Wisconsin, 1983- https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/CGFWB5ABHXDGK8S
Rusk County map, ca 1933-1945 - https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/BGLXSZTTF45JE8Y

Wisconsin Historical Society Digital Collections

Elementary Village and City School Districts of Rusk County - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/13900/rec/4
Historic Rusk County (Map), 1976? - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/1482/rec/1
Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin Including a General Historical Sketch of the Chippewa Valley; Ancestral Records of Leading Families; Biographies of Representative Citizens, Past and Present; and Portraits of Prominent Men - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/13572/rec/1
History of Rusk County, Wisconsin - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/63022/
History of the Chippewa Valley: A Faithful Record of All Important Events, Incidents and Circumstances That Have Transpired in the Valley of the Chippewa from Its Earliest Settlement by White People, Indian Treaties, Organization of the Territory and State; Also of the Counties Embracing the Valley, Senatorial, Assembly and Congressional Districts, &c.: Also a Brief Biographical Sketch of the Most Prominent Persons in the Settlement of the Valley - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/wch/id/54567/rec/13
Ladysmith, 1909 (Sanborn map) - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/6515/rec/7
Ladysmith, 1914 (Sanborn map) - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/6633/rec/6
Ladysmith, Wisconsin - A Brief History - https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS2492
Map of Gates County Wisconsin, 1901 (Rusk County, Wisconsin, was known as Gates County from 1901 to 1905) - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/1848/rec/9
Map of Potato Lake in southwestern Rusk County, Wisconsin, 191-? - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/1483/rec/3
Map showing parts of Rusk, Chippewa, Taylor, and Barron Counties, Wisconsin, 191-? - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/1845/rec/14
Plat Book of Gates County, Wisconsin, ca 1901-1905 - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/19543/rec/15
Plat Book of Rusk County, Wisconsin, 1915 - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/19572/rec/2
Rich Farming Land, Rusk Township, Southwestern Rusk County, Wis., ca. 1912 - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/15314/rec/5
Standard Atlas of Rusk County, Wisconsin : Including a Plat Book of the Villages, Cities and Townships of the County, 1914 - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/22653/rec/11
Wisconsin State Lands North of Township 25, Rusk County, 1927 - https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/maps/id/14579/rec/16

Resources:

Index to the Historical & Biographical Album of Chippewa Valley Wisconsin

Published by Wisconsin State Genealogical Society (1979)

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