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General
State
Wisconsin is divided in 72 counties. To see a complete list and information on each please go to www.rootsweb.com/~wioconto/county.info.htm.Counties
The county government oversees items that pertain to the interest of all county residents. This includes the county courts, keeping of all official county records such as vital records, land, taxes and etc., maintenance of county roads, social services and sheriffs department to name a few of the things they handle. They are the governing level one step down from the state and provide services all people in the county use. The state mandates by law the basic services they must provide.Townships
The next largest area designation, within a county, is townships, also commonly referred to as towns. These townships are less populated and cover large areas of the county. They oversee the functions within their own township, such as town roads, building permits, land use with in their town, fire protection and items related only to their town. Because of the larger area the services they must provide by state law are less.Villages and cities
Within the outer boundaries of a township there are villages and cities. Villages and cities only govern within their limits and are not controlled by the township, which may surround them. What determines a township (town), village or city is determined by state law and is based on the density of population and the area involved. The state laws also controls what services each must provide for their size governmental unit and what they have control over. In fact, villages and cities are allowed to annex land from the towns in order to expand their area.Unincorporated areas
There are also, within the townships unincorporated areas. These are areas that have a name, which may be a family, or Indian name; the name given to the school for the area or descriptive names like Brookside or Four Corners. They have or had at one time, a concentration of businesses, schools, churches and or homes to be a small community. They, however, never grew large enough to qualify as a village or city. They have no government function, but appear in many early records, obituaries, and newspaper articles. To the people familiar with the county they do define a given area of the county.Counties with Belgian Ancestry (1990)
Counties with +1% or +1000 inhabitants of Belgian Ancestry (1990 Census)
County Inhabitants BEL-1 BEL-2 BEL-S Belg.Anc. % Brown County 194.594 16.696 11.407 8.310 36.413 18,71% Calumet County 34.291 226 155 103 484 1,41% Dane County 367.085 761 662 293 1.716 0,47% Door County 25.690 2.864 1.248 1.844 5.956 23,18% Douglas County 41.758 594 308 327 1.229 2,94% Florence County 4.590 39 54 28 121 2,64% Kewaunee County 18.878 4.825 1.431 3.251 9.507 50,36% Manitowoc County 80.421 721 702 342 1.765 2,19% Marinette County 40.548 666 654 340 1.660 4,09% Milwaukee County 959.275 1.389 1.381 597 3.367 0,35% Oconto County 30.226 1.081 736 719 2.536 8,39% Oneida County 31.679 161 89 92 342 1,08% Outagamie County 140.510 1.303 1.500 543 3.346 2,38% Racine County 175.034 536 373 207 1.116 0,64% Shawano County 37.157 193 235 79 507 1,36% Waukesha County 304.715 639 690 225 1.554 0,51% Winnebago County 140.320 628 614 249 1.491 1,06% Towns
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Internet
WorldConnect
- PenBelGen: 19th Century Belgian Residents of Door Peninsula, Wisconsin PenBelGen is an inventory of the Belgian-American residents of Door, Kewaunee, and NE Brown Counties born before 1 January 1901. Data have been compiled from the sources cited; PRIMARY SOURCES should be consulted to confirm all data. (15703 entries on 10/06/2003).
- Wisconsin Local History Network
History
- 1852: Emigration of the farmers from Brabant and Hesbaye
- History of the emigration from Grez-Doiceau to Wisconsin and Illinois (USA), with many details and photos
- Submitted by Eric Mathieu
- French in Wisconsin
- A state of change (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- Ethnic Groups in Wisconsin: Historical Background by Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Memorials
Bibliography
- Mary A. Defnet, Jean Ducat, ... [e.a.]:
- "From Grez-Doiceau to Wisconsin: contribution à l'étude de l'émigration wallonne vers les etats-Unis d'Amérique au XIXe siècle"
- Bruxelles, Editions De Boeck-Wesmael Université, 1986, 175 p., ill, maps, ports, ISBN 2804109151
- text in French and English; includes information about +1000 people whose patronyms are widely knwon in NE Winconsin.
- Abstract: see site of GeniWal
- Lookup: GeniWal,
- Lookup: FHL US/CAN book - call number 977.5 F2f
- Jean Ducat
- "Arlonais fondateurs de BELGIUM - Wisconsin"
- Collection "Luxembourg Belge-Amérique", Mettet, 1993
- Mainly the migration from the town MESSANCY (BEL) to New-York, Ohio and Wisconsin (USA).
- Abstract (French): see site of GeniWal
- Jean Ducat
- "Namurois au Nouveau Monde"
- Namur-Amérique
- Abstract (French): see site of GeniWal
- Dorothy L. Heinrich & lynn C. McAuley; revised and enlarged by Marian A. Gould
- "Belgian-American research materials: a selected bibliography"
- University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI, USA, 1984, 40 pages
- Lookup: FHL US/CAN book - call number 977.5 A1 No. 155
On-Line Family Trees (Wisconsin)
- Submitted by Ron Flemal [ronflemal@tbcnet.com] (19 Jan 2000)
- The lists includes the author of the family tree, some of the principal surnames in the tree, and the website's URL.
- Note that on some of these sites is its necessary to use the site search engine to find the family tree in question.
- Robert James Du Bois
- BARRAS, BOURGUIGNON, DU BOIS, ENGLEBERT, JONET, LARDINOIS, LE COMPTE, NOEL, REIGNER, RENIER, THEYS, VANDE VELDE, WERY
- http://freepages.collecting.rootsweb.com/~robertdubois/
- Steven Patrick Dhuey
- http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/byker/116/
- DHUEY
- Martha A. Crosley Graham
- LE CAPTAINE, MASSART
- http://www.my-ged.com/massart/
- Gary A. Tremble
- CHAUDOIR, DEDECKER, LAMPEREUR, TREMBLE
- http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/r/e/Gary-A-Tremble/BOOK-0001/0000-0001.html
- http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/r/e/Gary-A-Tremble/ODT14-0001.html
- http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=gat1954
- Scott M. Crevier
- BOUCHER, DEKEYSER, GILSON, LEGRAVE, LEROY, MEUNIER, PIERRE, REINCE
- http://www.family.crevier.org/
- Richard M. Balza
- BALZA, BERO, BONCHER, LEURQUIN, VAN LANEN
- http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~balzarm/
- http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=balzarm
- Cindy M. Gordon
- GIGOT, JANDRIN
- http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=cmgordon
- Alvin J. Mathy
- DELWICHE, MATHY, REGNIER
- http://www.familysearch.org/
- T. Coulthart
- JANQUART, JEANQUART
- http://www.ancestry.com/main.htm
- Kim Potier
- DEBAKER, DEBECKER, DUCHATEAU, EVRARD, HERALY, MARCHANT, POTIER
- http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kimpotier
- Donna Detienne Martinez
- DETIENNE, JOSSART, HANNON, LECAPITAINE, BRASSINE, LHOST, DELVAUX, MOREAU, DEBAKER, DEGODT, DRAYE, ...
- http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/m/a/r/Donna-E-Martinez/
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