Rice Lake Public Library

Ancestry Library Edition (In Library Use Only)
Genealogy resource with over 1.5 billion names. Includes records from U.S. census, military, court, land, probate, church records, and passenger lists.

Blue Hills Geneological Society (Barron County)
BHGS has Directories, Church Databases, and other Barron County listings.

Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) - Gravesite Locator
This searchable database "contains more than three million records of veterans and dependents buried in VA's 120 cemeteries since the Civil War." It also has records of some burials in state veteran's cemeteries and burials in Arlington National Cemetery from 1999 to the present.

Ellis Island Organization

Family Search
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' (aka Mormon or LDS) genealogical site.

HeritageQuest Online
Collection of genealogical research materials for tracing family history and American culture. Includes the U.S. Federal Census Records, 1790-1930 and over 25,000 family and local histories.

JewishGen
Primary source for researchers of Jewish genealogy worldwide.

Kartenmeister Database
Database of over 62,000 Prussian place names in German and Polish.

L.E. Philips Memorial Library's History Search
This research tool will scan across all of L.E. Philips Memorial Library's (Eau Claire, WI) local historical databases:

• The Obituary Index - An index to obituaries found mainly in Eau Claire County, WI newspapers from 1858 to the present.
• Cemetery - An index to many cemeteries in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
• Barland Biographies - An index to over 75,000 Wisconsin biographies from 124 sources.
• Digitized Local History Documents & Books
• Marriage Records - An index to Eau Claire County, Wisconsin marriages between 1854 and 1928. This is only an index to records found at the Eau Claire County Courthouse.
• Local Biographies - A tool to help you find historic biographical information from the Eau Claire area.
• 1910 Atlas - This is an index to Standard atlas of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin : including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county, compiled and published by Geo. A. Ogle and Co., 1910.

National Archives' (NARA) Archival Databases

Wisconsin Historical Society - Research Portal
This resource offers databases of historical and genealogical interest in Wisconsin.

The Rice Lake Chronotype microfilm will be unavailable beginning May 10, 2012. It is being digitized.

Staff will not be able to search for vital records during this time. Depending upon circumstances, accomodations may be made for patrons to use paper copies of the newspaper. The paper copies are fragile.

Microfilm of local newspapers are located in metal cabinet. Microfilm does not circulate.

There is one microfilm readers available for use. The reader does print images of the microfilm.
 

Year books are available for viewing. Please seek the assistance of staff. These materials do not circulate.