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• South Dakota Biographies
  • Martha Jane Cannary's Biography
    My maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in Princeton, Missouri, May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were natives of Ohio. I had two brothers and three sisters, I being the oldest of the children.
• South Dakota Cemetery Records
• South Dakota Census Records  
• South Dakota 1910 Census Edition Map
• South Dakota County Map
• Dakota 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.
• South Dakota 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.
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• South Dakota History
  • Marshall County, North Dakota History
    About the middle of the seventeenth century French explorers passed through what is now Dakota, and again in the beginning of the present century Lewis and Clark explored this region. In 1809 one of the Astor's parties, conducted by Mr. Hunt on their way across the continent to the mouth of the Columbia River, ascended the Missouri River to the 46 degree parallel, where they procured horses from the Indians and traveled overland.
  • Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Cannary)
    My maiden name was Marthy Cannary. I was born in Princeton, Missouri, May 1st, 1852. Father and mother were natives of Ohio. I had two brothers and three sisters, I being the oldest of the children. As a child I always had a fondness for adventure and out-door exercise and especial fondness for horses which I began to ride at an early age and continued to do so until I became an expert rider being able to ride the most vicious and stubborn of horses, in fact the greater portion of my life in early times was spent in this manner.
• Military Records
  • Revolutionary War
    • 1840 Pensioners Database
  • 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.
  • World War I Records
  • World War II Records
    • South Dakota Army - Army Air Corps World War II Casualty List
    • South Dakota Navy, Marines, and Coast Guard World War II Casualty List
  • Korean War Casualty List
  • Vietnam War Casualty List
• South Dakota Native American Records
  • Marshall County, South Dakota Indian Reservations
  • South Dakota Indian Reservations
  • Cheyenne Indians
  • Oglala Indian Chiefs and Leaders
  • Blackfoot Indians
  • Sioux Indian Family History
• South Dakota Vital Records 
  • South Dakota Birth Records Database
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• Alumni Lists
  • Brookings Co: The 1918 Bomb
  • Minehaha Co: USA: 1916 Washington High School Alumni, Sioux Falls, SD
  • Minnehaha Co: Washington High School Alumni 1954, Sioux Falls, SD
  • Pennington Co: School of Mines Alumni, 1888-1891
  • Union Co: Beresford High School Alumni, 1902-1909, Beresford, South Dakota
  • Union Co: Beresford Public School Alumni, 1898 & 1899, Beresford, South Dakota
  • Walworth Co: Northwestern Lutheran Academy Alumni List (1928-1982)
• Atlas/Gazetteers
  • Hand Co: 1910 Hand County, SD, Atlas County Residents List & Resident Information
• Birth Records
  • Pre-1900 Births-Birth Records
• Book Indexes
  • Brown County: History Index
  • Brule County: History Index
  • South Dakota Genealogical Society Quarterly Index
• Cemetery Records
  • Butte Co: Pineslope Cemetery, Belle Fourche, SD
  • Butte Co: St Paul's Catholic Cemetery, Belle Fourche, SD
  • Faulk Co: St. Mary's Cemetery At Zell
  • Hand Co: Calvary Catholic Cemetery at Polo (Fairview Township), Hand County, SD
  • Hand Co: Cedar Cemetery In Como Township
  • Hand Co: Ebeneezer Baptist Cemetery in Spring Lake Township
  • Hand Co: GAR Cemetery Hand County, Miller, South Dakota
  • Hand Co: Halen Family Cemetery in Rose Hill Township
  • Hand Co: Holden Cemetery
  • Hand Co: Howell Cemetery in Howell Township
  • Hand Co: IOOF Cemetery, Hand County, South Dakota
  • Hand Co: Mondamin Cemetery
  • Hand Co: Morningside Cemetery at Ree Heights, Hand County, SD
  • Hand Co: Orient Prairie View Cemetery in Spring Township, Hand County, SD
  • Hand Co: Rose Hill Cemetery
  • Hand Co: Saint Ann's Catholic Cemetery, Hand County, SD
  • Hand Co: Saint Lawrence Cemetery (Some IOOF), Hand County, SD
  • Hand Co: St. Joseph's Cemetery
  • Hand Co: Wessington Cemetery in Hulbert Township
  • Hanson Co: 9 Hanson County Cemeteries
  • Hyde Co: Bohemian National Cemetery in Hyde County (Eden Township), SD
  • Kampeska: Kampeska Cemetery Inscriptions
  • Lawrence Co: The West Lead Cemetery
  • Lincoln Co: Larsen Cemetery
  • Rauville: St. Johns Cemetery Inscriptions
• Census Records
  • Dakota Territories Census 1860
• Land Records
  • Charles Mix County, 1906 Atlas
• Naturalization Records
  • South Dakota and Dakota Territory Federal Naturalization Records
• Obituaries
  • Obituaries from the Bowdle Pioneer
  • Campbell County: Obituaries
    

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Census - Other Federal Census
South Dakota Census, 1870-90

Census - State Census
South Dakota State Census, 1895
South Dakota Territorial Census, 1885

Newspaper Records
Daily Mitchell Republican (Mitchell, South Dakota)
Mitchell Daily Republican (Mitchell, South Dakota)
Mitchell Sunday Republican (Mitchell, South Dakota)

Vitals - Birth Records
South Dakota Births, 1856-1903

Vitals - Marriage Records
South Dakota Marriage Certificates, 1905-1949

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  • Marshall County, South Dakota History and Genealogy
    Website providing information and genealogical records for researchers of Mitchell County, South Dakota.