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 *[[U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin|'''U. S. Immigration Records: Finding the Town of Origin''']]
 ==Background==
+*Small groups of '''French''' fur traders came to the Green Bay and Prairie du Chien areas in the 1700s.
-Small groups of '''French''' fur traders came to the Green Bay and Prairie du Chien areas in the 1700s. They were followed by lead miners from the Southern states who settled near the Galena diggings on the Illinois border in the 1820s. Substantial immigration from the northeastern states began in the 1830s. Later American-born settlers were usually from New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.
+*They were followed by '''lead miners from the Southern states''' who settled near the Galena diggings on the Illinois border in the 1820s.
+*Substantial immigration from the northeastern states began in the 1830s. Later American-born settlers were usually from '''New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Vermont.'''
-Between 1840 and 1860, hundreds of thousands of immigrants came from Europe. Most came by way of the [[Erie Canal|Erie Canal]] and the Great Lakes to the port of Milwaukee, or they traveled up the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers and then by the railroads, which crossed the area soon after Wisconsin statehood.
+*Between 1840 and 1860, hundreds of thousands of
 The most numerous of the foreign-born immigrants were from Germany. They came from the Catholic provinces of southern Germany and from Protestant eastern Germany.