Trempealeau County, Wisconsin Genealogy and History
Established: 1854
County Seat: Whitehall
Parent: Crawford & LaCrosse Counties
* Records before the establishment of the county may be in the parent records.
Neighboring Counties
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From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
TREMPELEAU.
pg. 103
Made out of Buffalo, in 1854. Its name is derived from the French name of a small hill in the Mississippi River. It is watered by the Trempeleau River and its branches, the Mississippi and Black Rivers passing along its bounds. It contains about twenty townships, most of which is of excellent quality for agricultural purposes. Already settlements have been made in the southern part, and fine tracts of Government land now remain unoccupied, which hold out inducements to immigrants seeking a home.
Monteville is a little village, at an excellent landing on the Mississippi. Galesville is the County Seat.
Trempeleau is in the La Crosse land district.
General Genealogy and History Links
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
- Trempealeau and Buffalo County Newspaper Tidbits - A gossip column called "Neighborhood News" appeared in the Winona, MN newspaper but included WI events. Be sure to use the advanced search check the "Search in all Publications" box. -
- USGenWeb Archives - Trempealeau County - US GenWebArchives -
- WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb -
Vital Records
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1845
Deaths 1847
Marriages 1856
Trempealeau Register of Deeds
P.O. Box 67, 36245 Main Street
Whitehall, WI 54773
Telephone: (715) 538-2311
- Pre-1907 Vital Records Index at the Wisconsin Historical Society - Pre-1907 Vital Records Index at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Search for births, deaths and marriages. -
Cemetery and Obituary Links
- Tombstone Photograph Pages Trempealeau County - Trempealeau County Wisconsin Cemetery pages with photos of select tombstones. -
- Trempealeau County Asylum Cemetery - Listing of graves in the Asylum cemetery -
Census Links
Censuses contain valuable information about families. This section contains links to transcribed censuses, census indexes or census images for the county.
Residents of the County
This section contains links to family tree websites, biographies and information about individuals that lived in the county.
Area History
This section contains links of published histories and historical information about the county, its villages, cities or towns. Sometimes within these histories is information about founders, or other people that settled in the area. It may also include ethnic or religious histories of the communities.
Maps and Atlases
Military
Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources
- Newspapers in Trempealeau County - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress -
