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=== Contact Information === | === Contact Information === | ||
Revision as of 17:50, 20 October 2015
United States 
Wisconsin Dane Archives and Libraries Norwegian American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library
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Contact Information[edit | edit source]
E-mail:[1] Contact Us form
Address:[1]
- 415 West Main Street
- Madison, WI 53703-3116
Telephone:[1] 608-255-2224
Fax: 608-255-6842
Hours and holidays:[2] Monday – Friday 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
Closed: Good Friday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Friday after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day.
Map, directions, and public transportation:[2]
- Google Map and Directions: Norwegian American Genealogical Society and Naeseth Library
- Public transportation: Madison Metro Transit routes 1, 10, 19, 38 and 82 all stop within a block of the library. Routes 5 and 75 stop within 2 blocks.
Internet sites and databases:
- Home research, databases, hire an expert, classes and events, e-store, support, membership, about, and contact us.
- Online catalog by keywords, title, subject, creator, or call number.
Collection Description[edit | edit source]
Collection includes thousands of genealogical books, microfilms, and resources relating to Norwegian and Norwegian-American genealogical research. This includes Norwegians in the following United States federal censuses:
- 1850 CA GA IL IA LA MI MS NY RI TX UT and WI
- 1860 AL AR CA CO CT, Dakota Territory, DC, FL GA IL IN IA KS KY LA ME MI MN MS MO NE, NY (in progress), RI TX UT WI
- 1870 WI (counties A-D)
- 1880 Dakota Territory, IL IA KS MI MN NE NV NH NJ NM TX WI
- 1850 CA GA IL IA LA MI MS NY RI TX UT and WI
Also cemeteries (320,000 names in 1,200 cemeteries), passenger arrival lists for New York 1830-1856, 1872, 1876, 1880, 1884, 1886, 1892, Philadelphia 1878-1879, and Quebec 1865-1873, North American church records 1840-1900, Norwegian immigrants card index 1820-1850, obituaries (200,000), printed family histories, maps, Norwegian church records, Norwegian censuses 1801, 1865, 1875, and 1900, Norwegian probate records, 1000 bygdebøker (farm histories), Bergen emigrants 1874-1924, Oslo emigrants 1867-1966, Kristiansand emigrants 1873-1927, Trondheim emigrants 1867-1925, and Kristiansund emigrants 1882-1959.[3]
- Databases (online for members only): births in Norwegian American church records pre-1901, Norwegian American cemeteries, Norwegian emigrants 1825-1860, Norwegian American marriages, Norwegian Americans in U.S. federal censuses 1850, 1860, and 1880, and a Montana database of Norwegian Lutheran church records, and marriages.
Tips[edit | edit source]
- NAGC members are welcome to visit Naeseth Library free of charge. Non-members will be asked to pay the $15.00 Daily Use Fee.[2]
- Please call ahead to make an appointment, if you will need staff assistance.[2]
Guides[edit | edit source]
{Optional: Internet or guide books describing this collection for genealogists. }
Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]
If you cannot visit or find a source at the Norwegian American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library, a similar source may be available at one of the following.
Overlapping Collections
- Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, best manuscript collection in Wisconsin, including censuses, tax, and land records. They hold the famed Draper Manuscript Collection of pioneer history, and the Wisconsin State Old Cemetery Society collection.[4]
- Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN, premier periodical collection, including Midwestern genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, and passenger lists.[5]
- Newberry Library, Chicago, a large repository with genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and the British Isles.[6]
- National Archives at Chicago old federal court and agency records for Illinois and Midwest U.S. federal censuses 1790–1940; military service and pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest, Fold3.[7]
Similar Collections
- Vesterheim National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center, Decorah, IA, photos, history, immigration history, and art.[8]
- Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center, Rock Island, IL, Swedish church records, census, passenger lists, lodges, newspapers, directories.[9]
- Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records.
Neighboring Collections
- Dane County Clerk, Madison, marriage licenses.
- Dane County Clerk of Courts, Madison, probate records.
- Dane County Recorder, Madison, birth, marriage, death, and deed records.
- Dane County Medical Examiner, Madison, suspicious deaths.
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin, Madison, civil and criminal cases.
- Dane County Historical Society
- Dane County Area Genealogical Society
- Madison Public Library genealogy resources.
- Norwegian Heritage Center, Stoughton, the story of Norwegian migration 1825-1910.
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Library, a very large manuscript collection with many historical documents.[4]
- Repositories in surrounding counties: Columbia, Dodge, Green, Iowa, Jefferson, Rock, Sauk
- Brown County Central Library, Green Bay, WI, a very large genealogy section with a good range of materials such as local histories, county histories, newspapers, obituaries, and family folders.[4]
- Milwaukee County Historical Society, a huge manuscript collection, Civil War, church records, obituaries, biographical news clippings, naturalization indexes, censuses, court and probate records, and coroners' inquests, specializing in German immigrant families.[4]
- Racine Heritage Museum Research Center, a very good genealogy collection.[4] Includes cemeteries, federal and territorial censuses, city directories, photos, maps, manuscripts, marriage card file 1838-1879, military records, naturalizations 1838-1906, obituaries and newspapers.[10]
- Wisconsin Vital Records Services, Madison, birth, marriage, divorce, and death records.
- Wisconsin Area Research Centers
- Wisconsin State Genealogical Society, Madison, WI.
- United Methodist Church Wisconsin Conference Archives, Sun Prairie, WI.
- Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee Archives
- Concordia Historical Institute (Lutheran Missouri Synod), St. Louis, MO.
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Archives, Elk Grove Village, IL.
- Repositories in surrounding states (or provinces): Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and in Canada: Ontario
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Contact Us in Norwegian American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library (accessed 20 November 2015).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Hours & Location in Norwegian American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library (accessed 20 November 2015).
- ↑ Available Research Tools in Norwegian American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library (accessed 20 November 2015).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 William Dollarhide, and Ronald A. Bremer, America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, UT: Heritage Quest, 1988), 119. WorldCat 39493985; FHL Book 973 J54d.
- ↑ Genealogy Center Collections in Genealogy Center (accessed 27 February 2015).
- ↑ Genealogy and Local History in The Newberry (accessed 27 February 2015).
- ↑ Genealogy in National Archives at Chicago (accessed 27 February 2014).
- ↑ Collections in Vesterheim: the National Norwegian-American Museum and Heritage Center (accessed 20 October 2015).
- ↑ Genealogy in Augustana College (accessed 30 March 2015).
- ↑ Research Center in Racine Heritage Museum (accessed 20 October 2015).
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