Wisconsin

• Marathon County Genealogical Society Library, Wausau, WI:    Located in the Marathon County Historical Society and available for research during Historical Society library hours.       Website:   http://marathoncountygenealogicalsociety.org  

• Marathon County Historical Society  Address: 410 McIndoe Street, Wausau, WI, 54403.
  Tel: (715) 848-0378, call for an appointment.
  Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 9am - 3:30pm
  Website: www.marathoncountyhistory.com

• Marathon County Courthouse                        Address: 500 Forest Street, Wausau, WI, 54403. 
  Tel: (715) 261-1000 or (800) 236-0153       Register of Deeds Office: (715) 261-1470 
  Register of Probate Office: (715) 261-1260 
  Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am - 4pm
  Website: www.co.marathon.wi.us

• Marathon County Public Library                  Address: 300 North First Street, Wausau, WI, 54403. 
  Tel: (715) 261-7240 or (800) 236-0153      Reference Desk: (715) 261-7230 
  Hours: Mon-Thurs 9:30am-8:30pm; Fri-Sat, 9:30am-5pm; Sun 1pm-5pm 
  Summer Hour Changes (Memorial Day-Labor Day) Sat 9:30am-1pm; closed Sun 
  Website: www.mcpl.lib.wi.us

• Family History Center     Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
  Address: 5405 Rib Mountain Drive, Wausau, WI, 54401.
  Tel: (715) 355-4856
  Hours: Wed. 5:30pm-8:30pm; Thur. 12:30pm-4:30pm; 1st Sat. of month, 9:00am-3:00pm
  Website (the national one): www.familysearch.org

• Wisconsin Historical Society - Area Research Center (ARC)at Stevens Point,  for Lincoln, Langlade, Marathon, Portage, Wood, Waupaca, Waushara, Adams and Juneau Counties.    Address:   Room 506,  Learning Resource Center, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, 
  Tel: (715) 346-2586 - Always telephone ahead before traveling to verify hours. 
  Hours: Vary due to limited staff. 
  Websites: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives/arcnet/stevens.asp  And   http://library.uwsp.edu/depts/archives/archives.htm

• Other Wis. Area Research Centers/Archives:    Map & links to Area Resource Centers:    

• State Historical Society of Wisconsin         Address: 816 State Street, Madison, WI, 53706. 
  Tel: (608) 264-6400        Library: (608) 264-6535       Archives: (608) 264-6460 
  Website: www.wisconsinhistory.org

Especially for German and Pomeranian research;  the first two books are helpful for locating places anywhwere in Germany

(Prussia, German Empire, Pomerania, etc.) because they show how boundaries shifted with the years:

• German Maps and Facts for Genealogy by Wendy Uncapher and Linda Herrick, published by Origins (Janesville, WI) in 2002.

• Lands of the German Empire and Before, also by Wendy Uncapher, Origins, in 2000.

• Then the series  Atlantic Bridge to Germany, one for each region of Germany (e.g., Bavaria, Alsace-Lorraine, et al) have some maps but are better for their information on what records are available, and where and how to write for them.  Charles Hall was the original author; now Uncapher and Herrick have updated and reprinted some of them.

                              See the list of bookstores below for a link to the Origins company.

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A few of the best/classic reference books for genealogists. 

Check your public library and your local  Genealogy Societys library for these and other books.

• Clegg, Michael B. and Curt B. Witcher.PERiodical Source Index.[PERSI] Fort Wayne,Ind.:  Allen County Public Library Foundation, 1986+. [Indexes most genealogical periodicals in annual  volumes; retrospective series, 1847-1985, in production.]

• Colletta, John Phillip.  They Came in Ships: A Guide to Finding Your Immigrant Ancestors  Arrival Record. Revised ed. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1993.

• Dollarhide, William.,  Managing a Genealogical Project. Revised Ed. Baltimore, Md.:  Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996.

• Greenwood, Val D.,  The Researchers Guide to American Genealogy Second Edition, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1990.

• Hatcher, Patricia Law.  Producing a Quality Family History. Salt Lake City, Utah: Ancestry, 1996

• Mills, Elizabeth Shown.  Evidence! Citation and Analysis for the Family Historian. 1997.

• Szucs, Loretto D., and Sandra H. Luebking, eds.The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, rev. ed. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry Publishing, 1997.

• Thorndale, William, and William Dollarhide. Map Guide to the US Federal Censuses, 1790-1920. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987

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Cyndi’s List  suggests these books  (links to that website and to bookstores are below):

• The Complete Idiots Guide to Genealogy  by Christine Rose & Kay Ingalls.

• The Everything Family Tree Book : Finding, Charting, and Preserving Your Family  History by William G. Hartley.

• Family Chronicles Introduction to Genealogy by Family Chronicle [a magazine publisher].

• Finding Your Roots : How to Trace Your Ancestors at Home and Abroad  by Jeane Eddy Westin.

• The Genealogists Companion & Sourcebook  by Emily Anne Croom.

• The Genealogists Handbook : Modern Methods for Researching Family History   by Raymond S. Wright, III.

• Genealogists Question and Answer Book: Solutions and Advice for Maximizing Your  Research Results  by Marcia Yannizze Melnyk.

• Genealogy 101: How to Trace Your Family’s History and Heritage  by Barbara Renick.

• The Handybook for Genealogists  by Evertons publishers.

• How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy  by George G. Morgan.

• How to Trace Your Family Tree : A Complete and Easy to Understand Guide for the Beginner  by the American Genealogical Research Institute.

• Shaking Your Family Tree: A Basic Guide to Tracing Your Familys Genealogy  (2nd Edition)  by Ralph J. Crandall.

• The Sleuth Book for Genealogists: Strategies for More Successful Family History Research  by Emily Anne Croom.

• Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy  by Emily Anne Croom.

** Cyndis List is on the internet at this link:              http://www.cyndislist.com

or go to the index page about genealogy book categories:http://www.cyndislist.com/books.htm

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BOOK STORES

• Origins Book Store,  1521 E. Racine St.,  Janesville, WI 53545.   They have an internet site:  http://www.originsbooks.com/     or email at   Origins@Origins.com

• Higginson Book Company, 148 Washington Street, Salem,MA. 01970.  Their internet siteis:      http://www.higginsonbooks.com/  It’s good for reprints of old family histories, et al

• Heritage Books, Inc.  is on the internet at http://www.heritagebooks.com/,  but they havefrequent (free) catalogs too.  Email them at:  orders@HeritageBooks.com.  Give them your name and address and theyll send you the most recent catalog, Heritage Book News

  • Storbecks Virtual Genealogy Bookshop is on the internet at   http://www.storbecks.com/  Good for [old] maps.

Internet sites for doing German (and Pomeranian) genealogy           

These websites worked as of 03 March 2011.   They have been useful in my own research, but of course there are many more that can be found via Google or Cyndis List.

GENERAL

A brief history of Pomerania:    http://www.genemaas.net/Pommern.htm 

Federation of East European Family History Societies:  http://feefhs.org/dpl/pommern-home.html  

Die Pommerschen Leute  (The Pomeranian People):  The indices to immigrants’ genealogy and place names:  http://www.pomeranianews.com/dv_indices_intro.html

Die Pommerschen Leute , The newsletter   http://www.pomeranianews.com/   has the immigrant  genealogies submitted by subscribers.

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HERITAGE SOCIETIES

Pommerscher Verein Friestadt.  Pommerscher Verein Freistadt

Germanic Genealogy Society.  Germanic Genealogy Society

My Pomerania My Pomerania

Sacramento German Genealogy Society, Publishers of award-winning Der Blumenbaum.  Sacramento German Genealogy Society

Pomeranian Greif eV, Association for Family and Local History Research.   https://www.pommerscher-greif.de/

MAPS

The  FEEHS (Federation of East European History Soc.) “Map Room”:     http://www.feefhs.org/maps/indexmap.html

Pomerania in relation to other states in the German Empire, 1870:     http://www.genemaas.net/images/germany-1870.JPG

An outline map of Pomerania in 1939:   http://hinterpommern.de/Karten/Pommern/kreise1939.html

For West Prussia (and Ost/East Prussia) and Schlesien (Silesia):     http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/databaseuwe.asp
The maps are from the Ludwig Ravenstein series -- he (his company) made very detailed maps of the entire Prussian Empire for decades. The maps at the Kartenmeister site are from about 1905.

For locations anywhere in the German/Prussian Empire, try these sites:

      1883 Ravenstein map and gazetteer (place name index):          http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/ravenstein/
or
      http://gov.genealogy.net/index.jsp
The search works with either present-day (e.g. Polish) names or old German names. The map display is in present-day (Polish) terms.

[Note: if you are using "dial-up" for email and internet connections, then the maps and name indexes will take a long time to download, because each page is quite large.]

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SHIPS PASSENGER LISTS

Start with Cyndis List:      http://www.cyndislist.com/ships.htm