Research Room

NEWSPAPERS

County-wide papers on microfilm (list is alphabetical):

• De Soto Chronicle
  

  1886 through 1899

• De Soto Republican
  

  1870 through 1872

• LaFarge Enterprise
  

  1898 through 1914

• Prairie du Chien Patriot
  

  Sept. 22, 1846 - Feb. 13, 1850

• Westby Times
  

  1917 through 1919

Viroqua papers on microfilm (list is chronological):

• North Western Times
  

  June 7, 1856 - Aug. 16, 1865

• Viroqua Expositor
  

  Jan. 15, 1859 - Aug. 20, 1859
  1861 - Apr. 18, 1863

• Vernon County Censor
  

  Aug. 23, 1865 through 1876
  1879 through 1885
  1890 through 1943
  1954 - Nov. 3, 1955

• Vernon County Leader
  

  Oct 20, 1882 - July 19, 1889
  Aug. 7, 1894 through 1896
  Jan. 11, 1918 - July 28, 1919

• Viroqua Republican
  

  1897 - March 2, 1911

• Vernon County Broadcaster
  

  April 13, 1933 - Feb. 6, 1936
  Jan 6, 1944 through 1995

Many original newspapers are also stored in the 3^rd floor newspaper room - please ask for assistance. This is a brief list of those newspapers:

Viroqua newspapers, chronologically:

• North Western Times
  

  June 1856 - August 1865

• Viroqua Expositor
  

  August 1858 - 1859
  January 1861 - April 1863

• Vernon County Censor
  

  August 1865 - December 1876
  1877 - 1907 (incomplete)
  1908 - 1939
  1941 - 1955

• Vernon County Leader
  

  1884 - 1899 (incomplete)
  1901 - 1919 (incomplete)

• Viroqua Republican
  

  1894 (1 issue)
  1895 (2 issues)
  1896 (2 issues)
  1898 (11 issues)
  1900 (1 issue)
  1904 (1 issue)
  1906 - 1908 (incomplete)

• Vernon County Independent
  

  1920 (incomplete)
  1922 (incomplete)

• Vernon County Broadcaster
  

  1925 - current (early years incomplete)

County-wide newspapers, alphabetically:

• Epitaph and Epitaph-News
  

  1975 - 1981 (incomplete)
  1982 - 2001
  2009
  2012 - 2014

• Hillsboro Sentry
  

  1950 - 1954
  1957 - 1972 (few issues)
  October 1979 - December 1979
  2001
  2009
  2012 - 2014

• La Farge Enterprise
  

  1939 - 1961 (incomplete)
  1963 - June 1973

• La Farge Episcope
  

  August 1996 - July 2013

• Viola News
  

  January 1981 - June 1982

• Westby Times
  

  1944 (incomplete)
  1950-1952 (incomplete)
  June 1968 - November 1989
  2002 - 2008
  2012 - 2013

Nearby counties

• Bi-County Argus
  

  1913 – 1939 (incomplete)

• Crawford County Independent
  

  2009
  2012 - 2014

NEWSPAPER EXTRACTIONS

Births, marriages, anniversaries, deaths, etc., in binders and booklets

• 1846-1850, Prairie du Chien Patriot (handwritten notes) and
  1856-1910, Vernon Co. papers (primarily news articles)
• 1856-1876, genealogical gleanings from Vernon Co. newspapers
• 1870-1901, Genealogical Events from Newspapers for Crawford, Vernon and Grant Counties, WI, compiled by Vernon D. Erickson
• 1873-1910, Births, Deaths, Marriages and Other Genealogical Gleanings from Newspapers for Crawford, Vernon and Richland Counties, WI, compiled by Vernon D. Erickson
• 1897-1902, Genealogical Gleanings from Early Newspapers for Residents In and Near Crawford County, WI, compiled by Vernon D. Erickson
• 1915-1944, “Ferryville News” articles, most written by Nancy Alice Torgerson
• 1917-1922, Westby Times (primarily genealogical)
• 1938-1940, Westby Times (primarily genealogical)
• 1991-1995, The Freda Markee Collection of Births, Marriages, Engagements, Military Information, and General Interest Articles gleaned from the Hillsboro Sentry-Enterprise