Mary I. Murray Woods, Historian

715-284-4112

Monday 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday thru Friday 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

The Goals of the Jackson County History Room are:

1.  To assist in the collection and preservation of written historical information concerning Jackson County and its people.

2. To disseminate that information to the public for the purpose of enjoyment, education, and research, including genealogical research.

Jackson County History Room Research Materials

Databases

__ Ancestry Library Edition (in library use only)...claims to be “the largest collection of family history data online.” Over 900 million names can be searched in their extensive free database and premium subscription database. The Black River Falls Public Library currently holds a subscription to the library version of Ancestry.com complete with access to census images for two simultaneous users. Census images include the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Users must be in the library to use this subscription. The free databases (social security death index, etc.) can be searched using the general Ancestry.com link.

Books

__ Atlases/Platbooks

__ Biographical Files              

__ Black River Falls History/City Directories

__ Books by Local Authors (not necessarily local topics)

__ Church Histories/Records (Including Evangelical Lutheran Church Microfilms)

__ County, Village and Township Histories

__ Czech Immigration Passenger Lists

__ General Genealogy "How-to Books"

__ Local Family Histories

__ Military Histories/Civil War Materials

__ Native American Culture

__ Newsletters and Genealogy Magazines

__ School Histories/Jackson County High Schools Yearbooks

__ Scrapbooks

__ State Historical Society Proceedings

__ Subject Files/Locality Files/Community Files

__ Toddy Porath’s Biographical and Subject Files     

__ Telephone Books

__ Various Genealogical CD’s

__ Wisconsin History/Blue Books

Indexes

__ Births/Marriages/Deaths (Including Wisconsin Pre-1907 Indexes)

__ Jackson County Cemeteries (Read and compiled by Footprints Genealogy Club)

__ Jackson County Probate Files No. 1-998 on microfilm

__ Obituary Index from Banner Journal and Melrose Chronicle

Census

U.S. Federal

__ Crawford & Dane Counties 1850

__ Jackson County 1860-1870-1880-1900-1910-1920-1930

__ Michigan Territory 1820-1830

__ Wisconsin Territory 1840

Wisconsin State Census 

__ 1855 Jackson County-printout and 1905 Jackson County-microfilm

Naturalization Indexes and Records

__ Jackson County Naturalization and Citizenship Records (1853-1941)

__ Clark County Naturalization and Citizenship Records (1857-1952)

Newspapers: Microfilm

__ Alma Center Herald 1898-1899

__ Alma Center News 1906-1933 

__ Black River Falls Wisconsin Independent 1872-1888

__ Black River Falls Friday Evening Post 1891-1895

__ Black River Falls Badger State Banner 1867-1926

__ Black River Falls Jackson County Banner 1857-1864

__ Black River Falls Banner Journal 1926-1997

__ Black River Falls Jackson County Journal 1889-1926

__ Ettrick Advance 1919-1956

__ Fairchild Observer 1905-1918+ (Some Augusta Eagle & Eau Claire County Herald)

__ Humbird Enterprise 1904-1949

__ Melrose Chronicle 1896-1999

__ Osseo News/Tri-County News 1912-1966

__ Taylor Weekly Herald 1920-1931

__ Wisconsin Leader (Merrillan) 1877-1929

~Selection of books pertaining to the area on sale~