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Welcome to Bayfield County, Wisconsin
Hello, my name is Mary Saggio and it is my pleasure to host this Bayfield County website. I don't live in Bayfield county, so am not able to do lookups here, but I am hoping to include as much information as possible for Bayfield County researchers and will be adding things as I find them. If you have contributions/suggestions or are willing to be a contact person for me or for area researchers, please email me. I have recently added a "What's New" link at the bottom of the Site Contents list. Once you have used the SEARCH box below or visited for the first time, please check back at the beginning of each month to see what's been added!
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About Bayfield County
Originally LaPointe County, Bayfield was created in 1845 from Ashland County. The county was named for English Admiral Henry W. Bayfield. Bayfield County is bordered on the north by Lake Superior; east by Ashland County; south by Sawyer County and the west by Douglas County.
About the WIGenWeb Project
In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to create this page for all states, establishing the USGenWeb Project. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for a state page. If you would like to contribute your data or create a county page within a given state, please contact the person responsible for maintaining that state's page. If you would like to volunteer in any way to help with this site contact Tina Vickery.
About the USGenWeb Project
In the spring of 1996, a group of genealogists with mutual interests in Kentucky genealogy got together and discussed ways and means of using the internet for comprehensive genealogical resources. This resulted in a project to build web sites for every county in Kentucky. This idea quickly spread to other states and by the end of the summer of 1996, the USGenweb Project was born.