There are several options for getting help in researching your Wood County, Wisconsin roots. If you click on one of these links, it will take you to the appropriate section of this page.

HOWGS

The Heart O' Wisconsin Genealogical Society will perform a lookup for one surname for a $10 fee. They will search the following indexed materials and provide a report.

1. Wood County Cemetery Index

2. 1923 Wood County History

3. Local Newspapers, 1858-1906 and 1956

4. Wood County Centennial Papers

5. Civil War Soldiers

6. Wood County Plat Books: 1878, 1890, 1909

7. Marriage Records 1867-1907

Please send a large, SASE with two stamps for the initial search. Lookup requests without SASE will not be answered. Send your lookup request and $10 per surname to:

One free query which will be published in our newsletter and on our website is also available with payment of membership dues. See our membership page for more information.

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McMillan Library

McMillan Memorial Library will do basic searches such as lookups from specific sources, such as obituaries where the date of death is known, or searches of the cemetery index or the 1858-1906 birth/marriage/death indexes. Complex search requests will be forwarded to the Heart O' Wisconsin Genealogical Society.

The library does not charge a research fee for requests of reasonable length, however donations are welcomed and appreciated.

If a hard copy of research results is desired, you will need to include a SASE. For more detailed information on making a library lookup request, click on the following link:  Ask McMillan.

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RAOGK

Random Acts Of Genealogical Kindness (RAOGK) is a movement of volunteers that have agreed to do a lookup in their local area at least once per month as an act of kindness. The following link will take you to the list of RAOGK volunteers in Wisconsin:  RAOGK

At the time this page was created, there were no volunteers listed for Wood County, Wisconsin. If you see that a Wood County volunteer is available, please notify the webmaster so this message can be updated.

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RootsWeb Volunteers

The RootsWeb Wood County pages provides a list of people that have volunteered to do lookups on certain Wood County resource materials. Click on the following link to get specific information and contact the volunteers:  RootsWeb Wood County Book Lookups

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