5-19-06
Dear Wisconsin Historic Society,
 
In January of last year we were in contact regarding a title history search 
for my vintage automobile. It was a 1964 Buick my father bought used in the Air 
Force, and you provided me with information it had only been owned in Wisconsin 
for one year. You had searched by owner file and could match it with the person 
who sold it to my father.
 
 I was able to provide you with copies of the Wisconsin title because the 
State of Tennessee, where my father register the car, required the previous 
title be surrendered to obtain a new title. 
 
 My question is: Would you be able to look through the Microfiche related to 
this vehicle again and see if the previous title that was surrendered to obtain 
the Wisconsin title is present? I never thought to ask this, but I have a 
strong suspicion the car came from D.C., which can only help me further my 
search if I have a D.C. title number, which hopefully is on a title that was 
surrendered to Wisconsin.
 
Please let me know if you can help with the request and what information I 
would need to re-supply. I realize that in over a year’s time the original 
request is probably not easily remembered.

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5-22-06
Dear Owner, 
In order to refresh my memory, I reviewed the paperwork from the search I did 
last year. Unfortunately the State of Wisconsin did not retain copies of the 
original titles, nor did they film copies of the titles to microfiche.
 
There would be no way for me to look up any additional information on your 
vehicle.

Wisconsin Historic Society

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5-22-06
Dear Historic Society,
I'm a little confused. Would it be correct to say Wisconsin made a computer 
database of what they thought would be relevant and then destroyed all the 
paper records they had during that time frame? 

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5-22-06
Dear Owner,
From what my contact at Wisconsin DMV has indicated, that is correct. The 
filmed copies of records were sent to the Historical Society, but paper records 
of motor vehicle registrations and titles were not retained or sent to us for 
archiving.