Pioneer Gold and Century Certificate Program

    The Century Silver certificate will be awarded to any person who can provide evidence of descent from a Barron County resident who lived in Barron County 100 years prior to application date.  Specific details of essential evidence of descent are set forth in the instructions to the application for the certificates.

    Applications may be obtained from this website (click on links below) or by writing the Blue Hills Genealogical Society-Barron County, P. O. Box 383, Cameron, WI 54822.  Any number of applications for different pioneers may be submitted with a $10.00 fee (effective May 11, 2009) for each submission.

    All Pioneer/Century applications received on or before September 1 will be reviewed and certificates awarded in January of the following year.  The Blue Hills Genealogical Society will host a banquet in January for certificate recipients.

    Applicants are encouraged to include photographs of their ancestors with their certificate applications.  These photographs may show their ancestors in some activity, with his/her family, or at his/her homestead.

    The purpose of the Pioneer/Century Certificate program is to recognize families with Barron County roots, encourage people to undertake genealogical research, develop a database of information for researchers, and to improve the quality of genealogical research.

    "We are very excited about this program," said Society president Denise Ervasti.  "We hope many people will take the challenge.  Applicants don't have to live in Barron County.  They just need to be descendants of a pioneer who lived here either before 1871 or 100 years ago.  We are looking forward to illuminating the history of our county with this information.  We consider this an ongoing program to encourage people to research their Barron County roots."

    The application form and instructions for these certificates can be reviewed and printed.  To see a list of those pioneer and century ancestors who have been documented, click here.

    A Pedigree Chart can be viewed and printed for your use.
 

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