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Welcome to Dunn County Genealogy!

Dunn County, Wisconsin was created out of a portion of Chippewa County in 1854, with the first county seat at Dunnville (earlier called Colburn's Landing). The county was named for Charles Dunn, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin Territory. Dunn had been appointed by Pres. Andrew Jackson in 1835.

Lumbering was an important industry in the development of Dunn County. The earliest lumbering operations were started in 1822 by fur traders Lockwood and Rollette who erected a mill at the confluence of Wilson Creek and the Red Cedar River, at what is the present site of Menomonie. A second mill was built in Menomonie in 1830 and another at Gilbert Creek in 1831. A settlement was established on the river near Dunnville about 1829-30.

According to H.C. Cooper, Jr., "Most of the pioneer settlers in Dunn County were attracted to this region by the opportunities for steady employment in the lumber industry, though there were a few, even in the early (18)60's, who took homesteads and began to build up farms."

This web site is here to assist you in researching your Dunn County ancestors. If you would like to contribute your information to this web site, or have books, cemetery surveys, vital records, census records or any other genealogical information for Dunn County, WI, please e-mail the coordinator. We can also use volunteers who are willing to look up information in Dunn County or Dunn County resources. Thanks!

County Coordinator since 1997: Linda K. Schwartz

"Dunn County Genealogy" is part of the WIGenWeb and USGenWeb Projects

Area Genealogy News . . .

Dunn County Genealogical Society Meetings:

Meets the third Saturday of the month, usually at the Dunn County Historical Museum in Wakanda Park, Menomonie. Please contact the organization for details about their meeting topics. The list below is tentative.
July 19 - Annual trip to the UW-Stout Archives
Aug. 16 - No regular meeting. Genealogy Library open house.

Wisconsin Historical Society News . . .

Descendants of Wisconsin residents now have the power to look up their ancestors online: The state historical society has launched a free online index of pre-1907 births, deaths and marriages at http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords. The database, built with a 1970s-era microfiche index and tens of thousands of delayed birth, death and marriage records, catalogs more than a million Wisconsin births from the 1840s through 1907.

Search the index by just a last name, or add a first name, county, birth date or birth year. If you know the birth date, you can search on it plus a first name. Or, when information is really sparse, browse by a county and a birth year. Once you find your ancestor, a quick click lets you order a $15 copy of the record.

Available online from the UW Stout - Research Center Archives:

Dunn County Cemetery Index [Tip: Wait for the page to fully load before you click on it.]
County Court Records Index

New web site for genealogists:
Do you have a family history website? Let us know and we'll add it to our "Family Pages". Who knows ... you might even find a new cousin by posting your site there. Email the County Coordinator (Remove the words NOSPAM from the end of the address).

Map of Dunn County, including the townships

New on the Dunn County Website . . .

Wisconsin County Formation Maps
Index to the 1963 Moundonian yearbook from Elk Mound, Wisconsin
New Biographies page added to this web site. This page will also contain links to family photos as well as any stories we have about them. It has just been started - I will continue to add bios and photos as I can. You will still find biographies posted on the Rootsweb/Ancestry Messages Board.
Index of Pre-1907 Dunn County Birth Records: Surnames A - L completed Partial data is also available in additional sections. Some of these pages contain large files and will be slow to load. If you have data to contribute to Deaths, Births, or Marriages, please contact the County Coordinator to have them posted.

QUERIES, BIOS, OLD OBITS, Etc.

Post your queries, obituaries, biographies, birth, death, immigration information, etc. to the Dunn County Message board. Choose an appropriate Classification as part of your message. Note: All messages posted to the board are also automatically posted to the Dunn County Mail List.

Neighboring Counties

If you are interested in hosting a Wisconsin County website, please contact Tina Vickery, the WIGenWeb Project State Coordinator, for the list of counties currently available for adoption.

Copyright Notice: All files on this site are copyrighted by their creator and/or contributor. They may be linked to but may not be reproduced on another site without specific permission from Linda Schwartz and/or their contributor. Although public information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in which they are presented, the notes and comments, etc., are. It is however, quite permissible to print or save the files to a personal computer for personal use ONLY.

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This page last updated: 07 Jul 2008 09:11 AM -0500

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In Memory of my Sister

Carol Tremble Barresi

Dec. 20, 1951 - Feb. 7, 2002