Minnesota Genealogy

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• Minnesota Biographies
  • Lucy Ann Lobdell Slater
  • Dr. Frederick Noah Ripley, Dr.
• Minnesota Cemetery Records
• Minnesota Census Records
  • 1885 Minnesota State Census
    Indexes and images of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the State of Minnesota as of 1885.
  • 1895 Minnesota State Census
    Name indexes of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the State of Minnesota as of 1895. Microfilm copies of original records are available at the Family History Library and at family history centers.
• Minnesota County Map
• Minnesota Counties
  • Meeker County
    • County Commissioners 1856-1876
    • County Officers 1858-1875
• Minnesota Forts
  List of colonial forts, trading posts, named camps, redoubts, reservations, general hospitals, national cemeteries, etc., established or erected in the United States from its earliest settlement to 1902.
• Minnesota Genealogy Lookups
• Minnesota History
  • Hinckley, Pine County, Minnesota, Forest Fire Deaths, 1894
    The exact origin of the fire is somewhat indefinite; the one that visited Hinckley must have started in the region south of Mission Creek. Around this little village much of the pine had been cut. There was in the hamlet twenty-six houses, a schoolhouse, a small sawmill a general store, hotel and blacksmith shop. At the time of the fire there were seventy-three people living in, and adjacent to, this village; a great number of the population were away from home, having gone to Dakota for the harvest.
  • Dassel, Minnesota Those were the Days
    Most of the early settlers of Dassel and its vicinity came from Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia and, last but not least, Sweden, especially from Vastergotland and Varmland. And some energetic families came over from Hutchinson and Kingston, which were thriving little villages at that time.
• Minnesota Immigration
  • Meeker County Immigration-Norwegians- Christiania Port
  • Meeker County Immigration-Norwegians-Trondheim Port
• Military Records
  • Revolutionary War
    • 1840 Pensioners Database
  • Minnesota Civil War Map
  • Civil War Records
    • Civil War Pensions Index Cards
      Each card gives the soldier's name, unit, the application number, the certificate number and the state from which the soldier served. In some cases, the soldier's rank, terms of service, date of death and place of death are given. The index cards refer to pension applications of veterans who served in the U.S. Army between 1861 and 1917. The majority of the records pertain to Civil War veterans, but they also include veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection, Indian wars, and World War I.
    • Elected Officers, Meeker County, Minnesota
    • Mustered in, August 24th 1862
  • World War I Records
    • Pipestone County World War I ~ Names and Photos
  • World War II Records
    • Minnesota Army - Army Air Corps World War II Casualty List
    • Minnesota Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
  • Korean War Casualty List
  • Vietnam War Casualty List
• Minnesota Native American Records
  • Minnesota Land Patents ~ Chippewa
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: A-B
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: B
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: C-F
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: F-J
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: J-L
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: L-M
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: M-O
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: O-S
    • Minnesota Chippewa Land Patents: S-T
    • Minnesota Fond du Lac Land Patents
  • Indian War in Meeker County, Minnesota ~ Sioux
  • Mdewakanton Sioux Census ~ 1889
  • Minnesota Federally Non-Recognized Tribes
• Minnesota Vital Records
  • Dassel, Meeker County, Minnesota Death Notices
• Minnesota Wills
  • Minnesota Will Records 1849-1918
    This collection is sponsored by the Minnesota Historical Society State Archives, the National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrations, and FamilySearch. Name indexes of the Probate Court will books for the counties of the state and territory of Minnesota. Some testators who resided outside of Minnesota recorded their wills in these Probate Courts. Four Minnesota counties are not in this collection: Hennepin, Marshall, St. Louis, and Wadena. Currently, data is only available for the following counties: Brown, Dakota, Freeborn, and Ramsey.
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• Alumni Lists
  • Anoka Co: Anoka: 1926 Anoka, Minnesota Graduation Class
  • Brown Co: 1912 Sleepy Eye High School Graduates
  • Clay Co: Moorhead State Teachers College Alumni 1952-1954
  • Dakota Co: 1938 So. St. Paul High School
  • Douglas Co: Alexandria High School Class of 1922, Alexandria, Minnesota
  • Douglas Co: Alexandria High School, Class of 1903
  • Douglas Co: Class of 1903
  • Hennepin Co: 1910 Senior Class of West High School
  • Hennepin Co: Alumni, University of Minnesota College of Pharmacy 1916
  • Hennepin Co: Long Lake School - Class of 1949
  • Hennepin Co: Minnehaha Academy Class of 1921, Minneapolis, MN
  • Hennepin Co: North High School Graduates and Faculty of 1923, Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • Hennepin Co: Richfield High School Class of 1976, Richfield, Minnesota
  • Hennepin Co: West High School Alumni and Faculty, Minneapolis, MN, 1924
  •  Houston Co: Houston High School Class of 1912, Houston, MN
  • Houston Co: Houston High School Graduates 1909 and 1911, Houston, MN
  • Marshall Co: Argyle High School 1948-1951
  • Morrison Co: Royalton High School Classes of 1952 & 1956
  • Murray Co: 12th Annual Commencement of the Rural Schools of Murray County Minnesota 1921
  • Ramsey Co: Central High School Class of 1898, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Ramsey Co: Central High School Class of 1917, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Ramsey Co: Central High School, Class of 1931, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Ramsey Co: Mechanic Arts High School , St. Paul, MN, Teachers 1921
  • Ramsey Co: Mechanic Arts High School Class of 1921, St. Paul, MN
  • Ramsey Co: Mechanic Arts High School, St. Paul, MN, Class of 1924
  • Ramsey Co: Mechanic Arts High School, St. Paul, MN, Class of 1925
  • Ramsey Co: St. Catherine's College Class of 1926, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Ramsey Co: St. Catherine's College, 1922, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Ramsey Co: St. Catherine's College, Class of 1924, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Ramsey Co: St. Paul Central High School Class of 1937, St. Paul, MN
  • Ramsey Co: Summit School, Class of 1932, St. Paul, Minnesota
  •  Rice Co: St. Olaf College Alumni, 1925-1927, Northfield, MN
  • Rice Co: St. Olaf College, 1923 & 1925 Alumni, Northfield, MN
  • Sibley Co: District # 35 Metcalf School, New Auburn, Mn. 1895
  • Sibley Co: New Auburn Graded School, 1903, New Auburn
  • Stearns Co: Holdingford High School Classes of 1950-1951
  • Stearns Co: Kimball High School Class of 1943, Kimball, Minnesota
  • Stearns Co: Sauk Centre High School Class of 1916
  • Stearns Co: Sauk Centre High School Class of 1937
  • Stearns Co: Sauk Centre High School Class of 1938
  • Stearns Co: Sauk Centre High School Class of 1939
  • Stearns Co: Sauk Centre High School Class of 1941
  • Stearns Co: Sauk Centre High School, 1936 Alumni, Sauk Centre, MN
  • Stearns Co: Sauk Centre Normal School Class of 1916
  • Stearns Co: St. Cloud State Teachers College - Class of 1940
  • Todd Co: Todd County Ungraded Elementary Commencement, July31-1934, Long Prairie
  • Traverse Co: Graduates of Wheaton High School, 1932
  • Traverse Co: Tintah High School Class of 1938, Tintah, Minnesota
  • Waseca Co: 1949 Graduates, Janesville HS, Janesville MN
  • Washington Co: Stillwater High School Class of 1925 and Faculty, Stillwater, Washington
  • Yellow Medicine Co: Hanley Falls High School Class of 1945
• Birth Records
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1871
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1872
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1873
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1874
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1875
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1876
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1877
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1878
  • Fillmore Co: Norway Township Births 1900 to 1907
• Book Indexes
  • Pioneers of Polk County, MN
• Cemetery Records
  • Crow Wing Co: Minnesota Cemetery Records
  • Faribault Co: St. Pauls Cemetery, Minnesota Lake MN
  • Freeborn Co: St Mary's Cemetery Newry & Geneva Townships
  • Houston Co: German Ridge Cemetery, Hokah Township, Houston County, MN
  • Otter Tail Co: Lakeview Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Sverdrup Twp
  • Red Lake Co: St. Joseph's and St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemeteries, Red Lake Falls
  • St. Louis Co: Saiman Cemetery, Breavator Twp.
• Census Records
  • 1920 Census, Wood/Woods surname
  • McLeod Co: 1920 Minnesota Census Records
• Church Records
  • Ramsey Co: St. Adalberts Catholic Church, St. Paul, Ramsey Co, MN
  • Goodhue Co: Red Wing Lutheran Church Records, Partial Extraction, 1871,1875,1876
• City Directories
  • Ramsey Co: Selected City Directory Listings, Steidel Surname, St.Paul/Minneapolis, MN
  • St. Louis Co: Assorted City Directories 1902-1906, Dunham & Longmuir Surnames, Duluth, Minnesota
• Death Records
  • Olmsted Co: Selected Death Records for Sattre Surname, Rock Dell, Minnesota
  • Stearns Co: Selected Surnames Death Record Index
  • Winona Co: Deaths of Members of the Old Settlers' Association, Winona County, MN, 1897
• Land Records
  • GLO/BLM Records-Land Records
• Marriage Records
  • Blue Earth Co: Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Marriages -- Selected Records
  • Houston Co: Houston County, Minnesota, Marriage Records, Book A (1854-1858)
• Military Records
  • Chisago Co: North Branch Home Guards, World War I, Chisago County, Minnesota
• Naturalization Records
  • Hennepin Co: Hennepin Co, Naturalization for Olaf, Conrad & Carl S Olson brothers 1918
• Obituaries
  • Stearns Co: Obituary Index 1998-2000, Sauk Centre
  • Wright/McLeod Co: Obituary Index
• Professional, Society, Religious Groups
  • Chisago Co: Liberty Loan Purchasers (World War I), Chisago County, Minnesota
  • Chisago Co: Patriotic Speakers Bureau, World War I, Chisago County, Minnesota
  • Freeborn Co: Members of Old Settler's Association, 1882, Freeborn County, Minnesota
  • Winona Co: Members of Old Settlers' Association, 1897, Winona County, Minnesota

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Cemetery Records
Minnesota Cemetery Inscription Index, Select Counties

Census - 1920 Federal Census
Faribault, Minnesota Census, 1920
Northfield, Minnesota Census, 1920
Rice County, Minnesota Census, 1920
Winona County, Minnesota Census, 1920

Census - Other Federal Census
Minnesota Census, 1835-90
Rice County, Minnesota Census, 1900-10

Directories - City Directories
Duluth, Minnesota Directories, 1890-92
Minneapolis, Minnesota Directories, 1889-91
Rice County, Minnesota Directories, 1888-1953
St. Paul, Minnesota City Directories, 1889-91

Directories - Farm Directories
Benton, Meeker, and Todd Counties, Minnesota Farm Directory, 1913-14
Winona and Wabasha Counties, Minnesota Farmers Directory, 1914

Ethnic - Native American
Arnold Sevareid, Canoeing with the Cree in Minnesota
Minnesota Native Americans, 1823
Minnesota Native Americans, 1851
William Warren, History of the Ojibwe Nation

History
Alice Mendenhall George, Story of My Childhood
Bill Ledyard, Health Benefits of Minnesota
E. S. Seymour, Sketches of Minnesota
Fort Snelling, Minnesota History, 1825-85
Frank Moore, Reminiscences of St. Paul, Minnesota
Frank O'Brien, Minnesota Pioneer Sketches
Gertrude Vandergon, Pioneering Days in Minnesota
Harlan Hall, Minnesota Politics, 1860-1900
Harriet Bishop, First Years of Minnesota
Henry Sibley, Autobiography
Hoffman, Minnesota Tales
James Manahan, Trials of a Lawyer
James Witham, Fifty Years on the Firing Line
Lyon County, Minnesota History and Description, 1884
Margaret Fuller, Summer on the Great Lakes
Maurice Farrar, Five Years in Minnesota
Minnesota County History Name Index
Minnesota Guide, 1869
Minnesota Historical Society Anniversary
Minnesota Historical Society, Vol. 1
Minnesota History and Biography, 1915
Minnesota History, 1655-1908
Minnesota Holiday Anecdotes, 1805-1900
Minnesota Land Concerns
Minnesota Pamphlet for Settlers, 1878
Minnesota Progressive Men
Minnesota Railroads, 1849-75
Minnesota Region, 1823
Minnesota's Early Explorers
Minnesota, 1870
Minnesota, Advantages to Settlers, 1869
Minnesota, An Anecdotal History
Minnie Carrigan, Captured by the Indians
Nathan Dally, Tracks and Trails
Nicholas Brewer, American Painter
Nils Ronning, Fifty Years in America
St. Olaf College, Minnesota, 1874-1925
St. Paul and Ramsey County, Minnesota History

Immigrant Records
Andreas Ueland, Recollections of a Minnesota Immigrant
Hans Mattson, Story of an Emigrant

Immigration - Naturalization Records
Minnesota Naturalization Records Index, 1854-1957

Land Records
Minnesota Land Records

Letters and Correspondence
Jane Swisshelm, Letters of an Abolitionist

Military Records
Minnesota Volunteers in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection

Military - Civil War Records
Minnesota Civil War Soldiers

Miscellaneous
Minnesota Governors

Newspaper Records
Fergus Falls Daily Journal (Fergus Falls, Minnesota)
Freeborn County Standard (Albert Lea, Minnesota)
Freeborn County Standard, The (Albert Lea, Minnesota)
Minnesota Newspaper Headline Index

Surnames - Biographies
Joseph Gilbert, Biography
Minnesota Biographical Sketches, 1907

Uncategorized Links
Minnesota and Its People, 1890

Vitals - Birth Records
Rice County, Minnesota Births, 1870-74

Vitals - Death Records
Minnesota Death Index, 1908-2002

Vitals - Marriage Records
Minnesota Marriages, 1849-1850
Rice County, Minnesota Marriages, 1860-1895

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