This might help you some. It is extracted from a list of counties in WI provided by the vital Statistics folks in Madison. Earlies Registration by County Milwaukee Births - 1835 Deaths - 1872 Marriages - 1851 That does not mean that all events beginning that date were recorded, though. I have a copy of a marriage in Milwaukee from a type of ledger book dating back to 1853 and, as I recall, there were numbers such as you show which tell in what ledger book and on what page you will find this event recorded. Bill in Denver