From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue Feb 21 18:21:43 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1M1Lhjb005088; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:21:43 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1M1LbM2019501 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:21:37 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k1LMqLFI004468 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:52:21 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k1LMqKAn004467 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:52:20 -0500 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [63.173.235.138]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k1LJk9FI003879 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:46:10 -0500 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [127.0.0.1]) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1LMFGW7027393 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:15:16 -0800 Received: (from karen@localhost) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k1LMFGRp027391 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:15:16 -0800 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k1LM2hjb032738 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:02:43 -0700 Received: from whs.wisc.edu (whs.wisc.edu [144.92.129.136]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1LM2dLQ001144 for ; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:02:40 -0700 Received: from shsw-MTA by whs.wisc.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:02:35 -0600 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.4 Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 16:02:15 -0600 From: "Melissa McLimans" To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by admin.rootsweb.com id k1LM2hjb032738 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] New Online Wisconsin Birth Index I've noticed that this has been posted to some email lists already (so please excuse any duplication), but thought I would send out some more information. The Wisconsin Historical Society has just made available an index to Wisconsin pre-1907 births at www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords. It was made by digitizing the 1970's microfiche index (with which some of you're probably familiar) and then expanding it with tens of thousands of delayed births. The Schoenleber Foundation of Milwaukee generously covered most of the conversion costs, and the Wisconsin State Genealogical Society graciously let us include their delayed birth records index. The result is free public access to more than 1,000,000 Wisconsin births. As you'll see, you can search in a variety of ways. When you find someone for whom you want a birth certificate, you can order hard copy from us online or use the results to locate the film yourself. We plan to add pre-1907 death and marriage indexes in the next few months, creating a comprehensive vital records index that will be entirely free and publicly searchable. Until the death and marriage indexes are available, you can request searches through our Wisconsin Genealogical Research Service at www.wisconsinhistory.org/genealogy/ogrs. Let us know how you like the index and happy searching! Melissa McLimans Administrator, Wisconsin Genealogical Research Service Wisconsin Historical Society