Archives Biographical Index FAQs

Archives Biographical Index FAQs

How do I request a record?

Each record look up is $5. When you locate a record in the index, click the "View" button on the right. Copy the Record ID number and Entity (name of person) and send an email to archives@uwrf.edu requesting a copy. We will follow up with payment options.

What's in the index?

Check back often because we are continually adding new entries! The search page has a counter that will give you up-to-date statistics on the number of records in the database.

The entries currently include:

• Birth, death, and marriage notices in the local newspapers, 1853-1910 (incomplete).
• Burnett County Circuit Court Civil Case Files, 1888-1971.
• Pierce County Circuit Court Criminal and Civil Case Files, 1866-1930.
• St. Croix County Naturalization Records, 1850-1954 (incomplete).
• Pierce County Naturalization Records, 1852-1963 (incomplete).

You can learn more about each of these record collections by searching in our online repository. 

A special thank you to members of the St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society who have been indexing the Pierce County court records for us!

 
Search Tips

• This is a name index only.
• Although you are searching both the "Surname" field and the "Alternate Name" field at once, the results appear in their own columns. Results give you the "Surnames" as they appear on the record in one column and any alternate spellings in second column. The "Alternate" column includes maiden surnames, either from the record itself or from another record. Finally, business names and government entities that appear in the court records also get listed in the "Surnames" column. Names added by us from another record will be in square brackets.
• You don't need to know which results column the name will appear in, just enter any name in this box and it will search multiple fields for you. All "Surnames" will display alphabetically first, followed by anything in the "Alternate" field.
• The same applies to the "Given Name" and the "Nickname" fields. Both get searched together but then display in separate columns. The "Nickname" column is slightly misleading in that we put the name as it appears on the record in the "Given Name" field. If that name is just initials or is a nickname and we know what the actual name was, the true name will appear in the "Nickname" field in square brackets.
• The results list names from the "Surname" or "Given" name column first, then the "Alternate Names" columns second.