Douglas County Register of Deeds: the repository of the county’s military discharge records

The county's own sentence. The Register of Deeds' mission statement: "To serve as the official County repository for all real estate records, deeds, land contracts, military discharge records for veterans, mortgages, and vital records (birth, marriage, and death records)." The recording of a discharge is free under 45.05 (the State entry), and a veteran asked to pay cites it. The vault. The office keeps the county's bound discharge volumes - the Superior Telegram's June 2021 account of Register of Deeds Tracy Middleton's digitisation project records discharge papers "date back to the Spanish-American War" (one recorded in 1940 for the 1898 conflict), the 1919 volumes handwritten, and the project begun after the April 2018 Husky Refinery fire to back the paper records up: "Volume 1 is complete and work on volume 2 is underway." "But the confidential documents are not available to the curious, Middleton said. Typically, they are only available to the service member or their next of kin." The Veterans Service Office's then-case manager Carissa Skifstad reconstructed the records lost in the 1973 National Personnel Records Center fire. The office. Darcie J. Burbul, Register of Deeds; Courthouse Building, 1313 Belknap St., Room 108, Superior, WI 54880; (715) 395-1551, fax (715) 395-1553. Records search on Landshark; the Wisconsin Register of Deeds Association and the land notifications are linked from the office's page.