LAKELAND AREA
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
Mailing address: PO Box 308, Minocqua WI 54548
LAGS is a group of local genealogists who have varying
interests and degrees of experience in researching their
family histories. The society meets once a month for a brief
business meeting/educational program, and to help members
with their research. Meetings are held at the Minocqua
Library/Community Building in the third floor Torpy Room.
They meet on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 7pm
thru September 2008, then at 2PM thru March 2009.
Guests are always welcome.
The club has published two Birth, Marriage & Death Indexes.
The first is for for The Times & Minocqua Times 1891-1926. The
second is for the Lakeland Times 1927-1949. Both
reference publications are available at the Minocqua
Public Library.
Sites of interest:
Ancestry/Library edition:
This database must be accessed from a library computer.
Try your census searches here.
Heritage Quest Online:
From home, sign in with your library card
number (WVLS) to search this database. Check out the
searches for people and places, as well as census records.
PERSI is a great resource for information on your ancestor's
local history.
EBSCOhost: (BadgerLink Resource) From home, search for newspaper and
magazine articles. For those with ISPs not listed, such as
AOL or Verizon DSL, use the
Minocqua link and enter your
library card number. Especially useful is
NewspaperArchive.com. Try your ancestor's hometown as
a search term!
ProQuest:
(BadgerLink Resource) From home, search
for recent newspaper articles (around 1998 - present).
Great for obituary lookups! For
those with ISPs not listed, you must contact BadgerLink at
badgerli@dpi.state.wi.us
to request a user name/password.
RootsWeb.com:
The oldest and largest free genealogy site.
Cyndi's List
of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: categorized and
cross-referenced links and more!
Family Search:
search for ancestors on the LDS website.
USGenWeb
Project:
Search by state
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