Walworth County Genealogical Society

P.O. Box 159
Delavan, WI 53115

An Affiliate member of the
Wisconsin State Genealogy Society


Current Notices

All Meetings are on Tuesdays and at 6:30 pm unless otherwise noted.


Upcoming Events

Aug 3rd, 2010 - Ice Cream Social, also R. Gray Betzer: Writing Your Own Obituary

Aug 7, 2010 from 1-3 pm at Brick Church Cemetery (3/4 mile west of US Hwy 14 on Brick Church Road)-
Free Re-enactment and Cemetery walk. The following persons or families will be depicted by relatives or professionals: Cyrus Church, Rev. Reader, and Hone, Featherstone, Worden, Bulger, Pearce, Boorman families. The depicters will be Ruby Harness, Ken Ryer, Debra Ryer Mancusi, Kathryn Worden Shebiel, Rev. Steve Buchanan, Rev. Steve Wessing, Barbara Shreves, a Bulger family member and a Church family member.
Stroll through this beautiful cemetery containing many old gravestones with a map and booklet to guide you and hear the stories of the local early settlers and their families.
For additional information, please call 262-275-2426.

Sept 7th, 2010 at 5:30 pm - Special time as this is the Annual Meeting Dinner & Program
Jane G. Haldeman: Working With Family Tree Maker

Sept 25th, 2010 from 9am-3pm at Burlington High School Commons (400 McCanna Parkway, Burlington, WI) -
Family History Fair: Mike Karsen will present two workshops on Creating Your Family History. At 10 am “Write Your Family History NOW!” and at 1 pm “Liven Up Your Family History with Images”. In addition to the workshops there will be vendors, food and a silent auction. Admission is $5 for adults which includes 5 tickets for the silent auction. Children are free.

Oct 5th, 2010 - Shirley Sisk: What Is A Second Cousin?

Nov 2nd, 2010 - Nancy Lehman: Ghost Towns, Haunted Places &
Old Lost Post Offices and Where They Were Located

Dec 7th, 2010 at 6 pm - Special time as this is the Xmas Potluck & BINGO
Bring a dish to pass & a wrapped gift (value up to $5.00)
Display of German Xmas by Diana Bird


Membership Information and Officers

Our Library

Publications for Sale

Researchers for Hire

Walworth County Visitors Bureau


Genealogist's Code of Ethics

  1. That I will treat with the greatest care and respect all public records and library books which may be available for my use.
  2. That I will speak with courtesy to all employees of a vital records office, or of a public library, when requesting to see any vital records or library book, and when finished with such record or book, I shall express my thanks to the person attending to my request.
  3. That I will not tear, erase or remove any public record or library book, and will refrain from mutilating, defacing or otherwise destroying any part of such public record or library book.
  4. That when I have finished viewing any public record or library book, I will return it to the proper or designated place.

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