Janesville Genealogy (in Rock County, WI)

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Janesville Birth Records

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1801-1928 Wisconsin Births and Christenings Index (incomplete) Ancestry online

1808-1907 Wisconsin Birth Index Ancestry online

1808-1920 Wisconsin Birth Index MyHeritage online

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin birth, death, marriage & misc. events. Volume II, 1911-1913 WorldCat

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin, birth, death, marriage & misc. events WorldCat

Janesville, Wisconsin Gazette : Birth, Death, Marriage & Misc. Event Index, 1907-1913 FamilySearch Library

Janesville, Wisconsin gazette : birth, death, marriage & misc. event index, 1907 thru 1910 WorldCat

Rock County births book FamilySearch Library

Rock County registration of births, ca. 1872-1907 FamilySearch Library

Wisconsin, Birth Records, 1907-present Wisconsin Vital Records Services

Janesville Cemetery Records

Afton Cemetery Billion Graves online

Bethel Cemetery Find a Grave online

Dillenbeck Cemetery Find a Grave online

Janesville, Wisconsin gazette : birth, death, marriage & misc. event index, 1907 thru 1910 WorldCat

Memory walks in Oak Hill Cemetery WorldCat

Milton Lawn Memorial Park Billion Graves online

Milton Lawns Memorial Garden Cemetery Genealogy Trails online

Milton Lawns Memorial Park Find a Grave online

Milton Lawns Memorial Park Mausoleum, Janesville, Wisconsin WorldCat

Mount Olivet Cemetery Billion Graves online

Mount Olivet Cemetery Find a Grave online

Mount Pleasant Cemetery Find a Grave online

Mount Zion Cemetery Find a Grave online

Mount Zion Cemetery Billion Graves online

Mt. Olivet Cemetery Genealogy Trails online

Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Janesville, WI : supplement : burial and death records, 1894-1944 WorldCat

Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin WorldCat

Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin, 1894-1944 FamilySearch Library

Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Genealogy Trails online

Oak Hill Cemetery Find a Grave online

Oak Hill Cemetery Billion Graves online

Oak Hill Cemetery Association: A History WorldCat

Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin FamilySearch Library

Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin WorldCat

Rock County Farm Cemetery Find a Grave online

Rock County Farm Cemetery Billion Graves online

Saint John Family Cemetery Find a Grave online

Trinity Episcopal Columbarium Find a Grave online

U.S. Civil War, Roll of Honor, Vol. XVIII: Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin Ancestry online

Janesville Census Records

1855 Wisconsin State Census Ancestry online

1875 Wisconsin State Census Ancestry online

1885 Wisconsin State Census Ancestry online

1895 Wisconsin State Census Ancestry online

1905 Wisconsin State Census Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 Ancestry online

U.S. Federal Census 1790-1950 MyHeritage online

United States Federal Census, 1790-1950 Family Search online

Janesville Church Records

1801-1928 Wisconsin Births and Christenings Index (incomplete) Ancestry online

Church records, 1832-1918 (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Janesville Branch (Janesville, Wisconsin)) FamilySearch Library

First Lutheran Church records (in U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records collection) Ancestry online

Parish records, 1904-1944 [Janesville, Wisconsin] (St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Janesville, Wisconsin)) FamilySearch Library

St John church records (in U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records collection) Ancestry online

Janesville City Directories

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Janesville (Wisconsin) city directories FamilySearch Library

Janesville City Directory 1889 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1892 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1903 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1907 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1909 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1911 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1913 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1915 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1919 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1921 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1923 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1925 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1927 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1929 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1931 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1934 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1936 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1939 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1946 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1949 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1952 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1954 MyHeritage online

Janesville City Directory 1956 MyHeritage online

Janesville city directory, 1902-1903 : comprising a complete list alphabetically arranged of business firms and private citizens FamilySearch Library

Janesville directory, 1858 LDS Genealogy online

Janesville directory, 1858 Internet Archive online

Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin Directory, 1931 Ancestry online

Janesville, WI 1857-1858 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Janesville, WI 1858 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Janesville, WI 1858 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Janesville, WI 1859-1860 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Janesville, WI 1903, 1907, 1909, 1911, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1923, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1934 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Janesville, WI; 1936, 1939, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1949, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958 - 1960 City Directories Allen County Public Library

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1884 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1889 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1892 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1894 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1903 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1907 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1909 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1911 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1913 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1915 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1917 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1919 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1921 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1923 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1925 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1927 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1929 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1931 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1934 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1936 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1939 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1941 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1943 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1946 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1949 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1952 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1954 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1956 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1958 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1959 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1960 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville, Wisconsin, city directory FamilySearch Library

Janesville, Wisconson, city : also a buyers' guide and a complete classified business directory FamilySearch Library

Owen's Janesville City, Rock County Gazetteer and Directory, 1876 (in U.S. City Directories collection) Ancestry online

Janesville Death Records

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1808-1909 Wisconsin Death Index MyHeritage online

1959-2004 Wisconsin Death Records Ancestry online

Janesville Gazette Obituary Index, 1849-1894 FamilySearch Library

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin birth, death, marriage & misc. events. Volume II, 1911-1913 WorldCat

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin, birth, death, marriage & misc. events WorldCat

Janesville gazette obituary index, 1849-1894 : Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin. WorldCat

Janesville, Wisconsin Gazette : Birth, Death, Marriage & Misc. Event Index, 1907-1913 FamilySearch Library

Janesville, Wisconsin gazette : birth, death, marriage & misc. event index, 1907 thru 1910 WorldCat

Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Janesville, WI : supplement : burial and death records, 1894-1944 WorldCat

Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997 Ancestry online

Wisconsin Deaths, 1820-1907 Ancestry online

Wisconsin, Death Records, 1907-present Wisconsin Vital Records Services

Janesville Immigration Records

Naturalization records, 1839-1982 [Rock County, Wisconsin] FamilySearch Library

Rock County (Wis.) naturalization records, 1839-1959 FamilySearch Library

US Naturalization Record Index, Northern Illinois, 1840-1950 ( includes Rock County, WI) MyHeritage online

Wisconsin, Federal Naturalization Records, 1848-1992 Ancestry online

Janesville Land Records

Land records, 1839-1901 [Rock County, Wisconsin] FamilySearch Library

Janesville Map Records

Janesville, Wisconsin Maps 1902, 1967 American Geographical Society online

Janesville-Beloit, Wisconsin 1980 Map American Geographical Society online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, April 1901 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, December 1890 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, February 1909 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, February 1915 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, July 1884 Library of Congress online

Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin, March 1895 Library of Congress online

Janesville Marriage Records

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1808-1907 Wisconsin Marriage Index MyHeritage online

1820-1907 Wisconsin Marriages Ancestry online

1820-2004 Wisconsin Marriage Records Ancestry online

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin birth, death, marriage & misc. events. Volume II, 1911-1913 WorldCat

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin, birth, death, marriage & misc. events WorldCat

Janesville, Wisconsin Gazette : Birth, Death, Marriage & Misc. Event Index, 1907-1913 FamilySearch Library

Janesville, Wisconsin gazette : birth, death, marriage & misc. event index, 1907 thru 1910 WorldCat

Wisconsin Marriages, pre-1907 Ancestry online

Wisconsin, Marriage Records, 1907-present Wisconsin Vital Records Services

Janesville Military Records

U.S. Civil War, Roll of Honor, Vol. XVIII: Oak Hill Cemetery, Janesville, Wisconsin Ancestry online

Janesville Newspapers and Obituaries

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Gazette 05/13/2018 to Current Genealogy Bank online

Janesville Daily Gazette 03/09/1860 to 10/21/1876 Genealogy Bank online

Janesville Daily Gazette 1845-1970 Newspapers.com online

Janesville Daily Gazette 1854 and 1859-64 (Janesville, Wisconsin) Ancestry online

Janesville Gazette 1845-52, 1854, 1857, 1859, and 1865 (Janesville, Wisconsin) Ancestry online

Janesville Gazette Obituary Index, 1849-1894 FamilySearch Library

Janesville Morning Gazette 1857 and 1859 (Janesville, Wisconsin) Ancestry online

Janesville Weekly Gazette 1858-1905 Newspapers.com online

Janesville Weekly Gazette 1864-65 (Janesville, Wisconsin) Ancestry online

Janesville Wisconsin Gazette death index 1845-1907 FamilySearch Library

Janesville [Wisconsin] recorder times index 1874-1913 FamilySearch Library

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin birth, death, marriage & misc. events. Volume II, 1911-1913 WorldCat

Janesville gazette index : Janesville, Wisconsin, birth, death, marriage & misc. events WorldCat

Janesville gazette obituary index, 1849-1894 : Janesville, Rock County, Wisconsin. WorldCat

Janesville, Wisconsin Gazette : Birth, Death, Marriage & Misc. Event Index, 1907-1913 FamilySearch Library

Marriages from the Janesville gazette 1845-1906 FamilySearch Library

Weekly Gazette And Free Press 1859-64 (Janesville, Wisconsin) Ancestry online

Offline Newspapers for Janesville

According to the US Newspaper Directory, the following newspapers were printed, so there may be paper or microfilm copies available. For more information on how to locate offline newspapers, see our article on Locating Offline Newspapers.

Badger State. (Janesville, Rock Co., Wis.) 1850-1851

Daily Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1894-1901

Democratic Standard. (Janesville, Wis.) 1851-1856

Evening Republican. (Janesville, Wis.) 1893-1900

Janesville City Times. (Janesville, Wis.) 1869-1884

Janesville Daily Gazette. (Janelville [I.E. Janesville], Wis.) 1880-1894

Janesville Daily Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1860-1865

Janesville Daily Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1901-1969

Janesville Daily Recorder. (Janesville, Wis.) 1878-1913

Janesville Free Press. (Janesville, Wis.) 1853-1855

Janesville Free Press. (Janesville, Wis.) 1855-1857

Janesville Gazette. (Janesville, Rock County, W.T. [I.E. Wisconsin]) 1845-1857

Janesville Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1865-1880

Janesville Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1969-2012

Janesville Morning Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1857-1860

Janesville Republican. (Janesville, Wis.) 1880s-1894

Janesville Semi-Weekly Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1866-1916

Janesville Times. (Janesville, Wis.) 1885-1886

Janesville Weekly Free Press. (Janesville, Wis.) 1856-1857

Janesville Weekly Gazette. (Janesville, Wis.) 1864-1865

Janesville Weekly Recorder and Times. (Janesville, Rock County, Wis.) 1886-1893

Janesville Weekly Recorder. (Janesville, Rock County, Wis.) 1885-1886

Janesville Weekly Sun. (Janesville, Wis.) 1882-1885

Recorder and Times. (Janesville, Rock County, Wis.) 1893-1913

Rock County Democrat. (Janesville, W.T. [Wis.]) 1846-1848

Rock County Recorder. (Janesville, Wis.) 1869-1885

Rock County Republican. (Janesville, Rock County, Wis.) 1860-1861

Rock County Sunday Mirror. (Janesville, Wis.) 1894-1895

Saturday Morning Sun. (Janesville, Wis.) 1886-1889

Weekly Democratic Standard. (Janesville, Wis.) 1856-1858

Weekly Gazette and Free Press. (Janesville, Wis.) 1857-1864

Janesville Probate Records

1800-1987 Wisconsin Wills and Probate Records Ancestry online

Janesville School Records

Craig High School yearbook, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Janesville High School - Phoenix Yearbook (Janesville, WI), 1906, 1912, 1914, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1960 E Yearbook online

Janesville High School yearbook, 1906, 1912, 1914, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Marshall Junior High School yearbook, 1968, 1978, 1979 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Marshall Middle School - Cardinal Yearbook (Janesville, WI), 1968, 1978, 1979 E Yearbook online

Marshall Middle School yearbook, 1968 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online

Parker High School yearbook, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1994 (included in US School Yearbooks) Ancestry online



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