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Wisconsin Genealogy Index
We've been adding and updating records for the last several months. If you haven't used this index to more than 2,500,000 Wisconsin birth, marriage and death certificates recently, have another look. You'll also find listings for more than 150,000 obituaries and biographical sketches.

Museum Collections Online
Nearly 4,000 artifacts from the Wisconsin Historical Museum have now been pictured and described on our website. Check out paintings, dolls, quilts, moccasins, samplers and children's clothing through the link above. And don't forget the Wis. Decorative Arts Database, showing 200 objects of all sorts from local historical societies around the state,

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Mondovi Man Scaled Windmills at Age 90
Don Quixote may have tilted at windmills, but octogenarian handyman Willard L. Standish (1845-1938) made a living by climbing and repairing them. And that wasn't his only trick. Standish told inquirers, "When I was 13 years old I came out to Wisconsin from Rutland Co., Vermont, and was left to shift for myself. And I did some shifting. This was...