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Pre-1907 Birth Indices for Eau Claire Co., WI

Please read before using these indices (linked below)

The Pre-1907 Vital Records Index is a compilation of births, marriages and deaths that occurred prior to 01 October 1907.  Before that date, it was not mandatory that these events be recorded or reported to the state or county officials.  Therefore, because this law did not come into effect until 01 October 1907, many of the vital records events (births, marriages and deaths) were never properly recorded.  If you do not find a name within this index on these pages, it probably was because of this fact. 

The indices within these pages are typed exactly as the state has them recorded.  No attempt has been (nor will be) made to change history by making known corrections in spelling or dates.  Several of the records have either question marks (?) or a notation that reads "(unknown)".  These records were either unreadable or not fully reported at the time of recording.  Please keep this in mind when using the indices within these pages.  You will also note there are some names that appear more than once, particularly in the birth index. 

There are several reasons for this, including: 

• Corrections made to the first record made resulting in two certificates on file for the same person, and/or
• Unnamed children (either because of stillbirths or indecision on naming a child at the time of reporting the event) resulting in these records being filed under the father's first name with the middle initial being an M or an F to designate the sex of the child. 

HOW TO ORDER A CERTIFICATE

Please note that I do not have access to the actual records and cannot verify any of the information within these indices. If you would like to obtain a record of a person listed here, it is suggested that you print out and fill in a request form for the type of record you wish to obtain (birth, marriage or death) and mail it along with the appropriate fee (effective as of 27 Oct 2007, birth, marriage and death records are now $20.00 - if you order more than one copy of the same record at the same time, the cost for the additional copies will remain at $3.00 each), in the form of a money order, to the Eau Claire Co. Register of Deeds Office.  The forms are available in either PDF or Word format on this page.  The address for the ROD office is: