Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Dane County): Divorce Case Files
Inclusive Dates: 1839-1928

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Dane County)

Call Number: Dane Series 314

Quantity: 77 reels of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Dane County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court case files on divorce. Legal papers include complaints, summonses, affidavits, court orders, testimony, and decrees. Cases provide in-depth information on genealogy, family history, domestic violence, household and farm economy, division of labor, sexuality, gender roles, expectations of marriage, courtship, kinship networks, community surveillance and networks, and relationships among women. The series may include some non-divorce cases such as monetary disputes involving members of the same family. Although the cases came to the State Historical Society in the Circuit Court records, some cases were adjudicated in the Municipal or Superior court.

Note:

This microfilm consists of service copies of film produced by the Genealogical Society of Utah, which holds the master negatives, 1995-1996.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-dane0314

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