From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:55:25 -0500 Subject: List Serve FW: Wis County Histories now online Message-ID: <488E289A5C909049B0E55F6B651B5B35015490816E56@MEWMAD0PC01G02.accounts.wistate.us>
Janet Seymour
Field Services Representative - Northern Region
Wisconsin Historical Society
Voice: 715-836-2250
Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846
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From: Edmonds, Michael - WHS
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 8:46 AM
To: WHS DL All Staff
Subject: Wis County Histories now online
This is an invitation to dive into the Society’s newest online collection
, Wisconsin County Histories, at
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wch/
It gives free access to more than 80 standard county histories totaling mor
e than 55,000 pages. You can browse by county, jump to specific accounts of
nearly 500 cities and towns, or discover facts about people, events, and t
opics with a keyword search. Every book can be downloaded for free to your
own computer as a PDF for easy copying and printing. Scott Jennings did the
programming, Jonathan Cooper and Omar Poler created the metadata, and a va
riety of staff did the scanning.
Wisconsin County Histories joins these other basic research collections on
our state's heritage:
Wisconsin Magazine of History (more than 2,000 feature articles, 1917
through 2008)
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wmh/archives/
Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles (15,000 historical articl
es)
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wlhba/
Wisconsin Historical Images (40,000 pictures)
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi
Wisconsin Historical Collections (10,000 pages of early primary source
s)
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whc
Turning Points in Wisconsin History (more than 1,000 original document
s on pivotal events)
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints
The Dictionary of Wisconsin History answers your questions about nearly 10,
000 topics
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary
Please tell friends and colleagues about this new tool for local history an
d genealogy research. Feel free to mention it in a blog, link to it on your
site, or email this note to interested contacts. And don't hesitate to con
tact me with questions or suggestions.
Best wishes,
Michael Edmonds
Head, Digital Collections & Web Services
Library-Archives Division
Wisconsin Historical Society
816 State St.
Madison, WI 53706
608-264-6538
michael.edmonds@wisconsinhistory.org<mailto:<mailto:michael.edmonds@wisconsinhistor
y.org>
Web site: www.wisconsinhistory.org<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org>
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