For simplicity's sake and to maintain some original order, the collection has been carved up into three large series and has been treated as three separate manuscript collections because of the merger of the Family Services Association and the La Crosse Home for Children in January 1983. These three series are:
Family Services Association records (1881-1982),
La Crosse Home for Children materials (ca. 1890-1983), and finally the
Family & Children's Center records (1983-1990). A fourth series,
Allied Organizations, contains just a smattering of miscellaneous materials associated with the Family & Children's Center and its predecessors.
