For Further Reading

 

    If you are interested in genealogy or the Belgian-Americans of Wisconsin, I would recommend the following (along with the works cited in "Key to Abbreviations" on p. 5):

    SHSW = Available at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison.

    UWGB = Available at the University of Wisconsin&emdash;Green Bay Library.

Alltmont, Rene Charles. "Belgian Overseas Expansion During the 19th Century." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Delaware, 1969. (UWGB)

Belgian Laces. &emdash; #7 (Aug. 1978)- &emdash; Holyoke, Mass.: Belgian Researchers, Inc., 1978- . Quarterly. (SHSW has #38-to date)

Cerny, Johni, and Wendy Elliott, editors. The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Co., 1988. (SHSW)

Commemorative Biographical Record of the Counties of Brown, Kewaunee and Door, Wisconsin. Chicago: J.H. Beers and Co., 1895. (SHSW, UWGB)

Defnet, Mary Ann, Jean Ducat, Thierry Eggerickx, and Michel Poulain. From Grez-Doiceau to Wisconsin. Brussels, Belgium: De Boeck Universté, 1986. (SHSW, UWGB)

Filby, P. William, comp. American & British Genealogy & Heraldry: A Selected List of Books. 3rd ed. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1983. (SHSW)

&emdash;&emdash;&emdash;. American & British Genealogy & Heraldry: 1982-1985 Supplement. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1987. (SHSW)

Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Major Genealogical Record Sources for Belgium. Salt Lake City: The Society, 1976. (UWGB)

Handlin, Oscar. A Pictorial History of Immigration. New York: Crown Publishers, 1972. (SHSW)

Heinrich, Dorothy L., Lynn C. McAuley, and Marian A. Gould. Belgian-American Research Materials: A Selected Bibliography. Green Bay: Univ. of Wisconsin&emdash;Green Bay Library Special Collections, 1984. (SHSW, UWGB)

[Holand, Hjalmar R.] History of Door County, Wisconsin. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1917. (SHSW, UWGB)

Holand, Hjalmar R. Wisconsin's Belgian Community: An Account of the Early Events in the Belgian Settlement in Northeastern Wisconsin with Particular Reference to the Belgians in Door County. Sturgeon Bay, Wis.: Door County Historical Society, 1933. (SHSW, UWGB)

Holmes, Frederick L., Old World Wisconsin: Around Europe in the Badger State. Eau Claire, Wis.: E.M. Hale & Co., 1944. Repr., Madison, Wis.: Wisconsin House, 1974. (SHSW, UWGB)

Rose, Christine, and Kay Germain Ingalls. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Genealogy. MacMillan General Reference, 1997.

Smet, Antoine de, "La communauté belge du nord-est du Wisconsin: Ses Origines, Son Evolution jusque vers 1900 [The Belgian community of Northeast Wisconsin: Its origins, its evolution up to 1900]," Album Antoine de Smet. Brussels, Belgium: Centre National d'Histoire des Sciences, 1974, pp. 461-506. (SHSW, on microform; UWGB; English translation available at both)

Szucs, Loretto Dennis, and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, eds. The Source : A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Ancestry, Inc., 1997.

Tischler, William H. The Architecture and Landscape Characteristics of Rural Belgian Settlement in Northeastern Wisconsin. Madison, Wis.: (n.p.), 1986. (SHSW)

Wells, Robert W., Fire at Peshtigo. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968. (SHSW, UWGB)

Willard, Jim, Terry Willard, and Jane Wilson. Ancestors : A Beginner's Guide to Family History and Genealogy. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1997.

Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Newsletter. &emdash; Madison, Wis.: The Society, 1954- &emdash; Vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 1954)- . Quarterly. (SHSW)