We would like to invite you to re-visit our website, The POORHOUSE STORY (a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses) at http://www.poorhousestory.com We have just published the results of our search to find the poorhouse holdings of the Wisconsin State Archives (Wisconsin Historical Society). Their on-line catalogue reveals that they hold various types of poorhouse records for the following counties: Brown, Chippewa, Dane, Dunn, Fond du Lac, Forest, Grant, Green, Iowa, Lincoln, Pierce, Polk, Racine, Rock, and St. Croix. So we have posted a table showing you their descriptions of those records. The way their search engine yields results makes it difficult to provide URLs, so you may need to do your own search to get more information about the specific location of the records as well as information about access to them. It's always a good idea to do your own search; and if you come up with any that we missed, please let us know. (Those search engines are so variable!) An examination of the list of holdings for Dane County will provide you with an example of the variety of such records. DIRECTIONS: At the homepage (link above) click on POORHOUSES BY STATE, then on WISCONSIN on the table of states. If you have been to the website recently you may have to click REFRESH or RELOAD on the browser to see the new information. There are other pages on the site which may give you some interesting perspective on poorhouses. They are off the homepage and include: the HISTORY page and the LETTER TO GENEALOGISTS as well as FEATURED ARTICLES. There are great tips for researching poorhouse records for yourself on the RECORDS page; and you might want to subscribe to our (almost) monthly newletter (which you can do in the lower right corner of the homepage). The information on our site will only grow through the submissions of generous readers. If you would like to e-mail me ... please do so off-list because I cannot maintain subscriptions to as many lists as we post messages on. (You can use an e-mail link off one of our web pages.) We hope you enjoy the site! Thanks, Linda Crannell (aka=The Poorhouse Lady)