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Minnesota Genealogy Resources

  • Dalby Database: Minnesota Database Search.
     
  • DeLorme Mapping Company. Minnesota Atlas & Gazetteer. Freeport, ME: DeLorme Mapping Company, 1994.

  • 1849 Minnesota Territorial Census.
     
  • First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment. The First Minnesota Infantry Regiment was one of the first units organized after President Lincoln's call for 75,000 troops in April, 1861. The regiment was quickly filled with enthusiastic men from all parts of Minnesota and was one of the few regiments that received training by a qualified officer. Colonel Gorman was an unpleasant but competent taskmaster and by July, 1861 the regiment had been sent east and fought with distinction at the battle of Bull Run under Colonel Gormans leadership. The regiment participated in all the major campaigns of the Army of the Potomac through the fall of 1863 and a portion of the command called the First Battalion was present at Appomattox, the final battle of the war.
     
  • Glaus, Marlene, with valuable information by Glenn W. Glaus and Idella M. Cornwell. My Mantorville: 150 Years. Mantorville, Minnesota: Dodge County Historical Society, 2006.
     
  • Johnson, Martin William. Old Lutherans in Wisconsin & Minnesota [microform] : membership lists, cemeteries, passenger lists, etc. / transcribed by Martin Wm. Johnson. Belvidere, IL : M.W. Johnson, [1990]  2 microfiches : ill. Includes records from Lutheran churches and cemeteries in Wisconsin and Minnesota, passenger lists of Lutherans 32 . Arriving in New York, N.Y. and emigrating to upper New York State and Wisconsin in 1843, and the 1870 census for Pierce County, Neb. Title on header: 1842-1899 old Lutherans in Wis. & Minn. Includes passenger lists of Lutherans arriving in New York, N. Y. who emigrated to upper New York State and Wisconsin in 1843.
     
  • Minnesota Birth Certificates Index. 1900-1916.

  • Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980 – Name index to birth, baptism and christening records from the state of Minnesota. FamilySearch.

  • Minnesota County Marriages, 1860-1949 - Name index and images of county marriage records for Minnesota. Currently the following counties are represented in this collection: Anoka, Blue Earth, Brown, Carver, Cottonwood, Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, and Goodhue - 156,395 records from 88,640 images as of 13 Apr 2011.
     
  • Minnesota Death Certificate Index. Currently, this database indexes the death cards from 1905 to 1907 and the death certificates from 1908 to 2001. Minnesota Historical Society.

  • Minnesota Death Records, 1866-1916 - Name index of municipal death records in St. Paul (Ramsey County) and Minneapolis (Hennepin County), Minnesota. The collection includes death registers, mortuary records, and death certificates. FamilySearch.

  • Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990 – Name index to death and burial records from the state of Minnesota. FamilySearch.

  • Minnesota Digital Library. Minnesota Reflections is the initial digitization effort of the MDLC. This digitization project, begun in 2004-05, now involves more than 95 participating historical societies, special archives, libraries and other organizations.
     
  • Minnesota Genealogist.

  • Minnesota Historical Society.
     
  • Minnesota Historical Society Visual Resources Database. Many of the photographs are family oriented.

  • Minnesota Marriages 1849-1950 - Name index to marriage records from the state of Minnesota - 459,384 records after 6 May, 2010. FamilySearch.org.

  • Minnesota State Archives.
     
  • Minnesota State Census, 1865. Microfilm of original manuscripts by the Minnesota State Library and Records Service, 1969, 3 rolls. FHL film #565714, 565715, 565716. See also: Inventory to a Microfilm Edition of the Minnesota State Population Census Schedules, 1865. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society, 1977.

  • Minnesota State Census 1865 – (FamilySearch) Imaged Records – Indexes and images of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the State of Minnesota as of June 1, 1865.

  • Minnesota State Census 1875 – (FamilySearch) Imaged Records – Images and index of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the State of Minnesota as of May 1, 1875.

  • Minnesota State Census 1885 – (FamilySearch) Imaged Records – Images and index of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the State of Minnesota as of 1885.

  • Minnesota State Census 1895 – (FamilySearch) Imaged Records – Images and indexes of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the State of Minnesota as of 1895.

  • Minnesota State Census 1905 – (FamilySearch) Imaged Records – Indexes and images of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the State of Minnesota as of June 1, 1905

  • Minnesota Territorial Census 1857 – (FamilySearch) Imaged Records – Indexes and images of the population schedule listing inhabitants of the Minnesota Territory in 1857. NOTE: “All entries for the following newly created [23 May 1857] counties were fabricated to cover voter fraud: Cottonwood, Jackson, Martin, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, and Rock. (For further information see Robert J. Forrest, ‘Mythical Cities of Southwestern Minnesota,’ Minnesota History, 14 (1933), pp. 243-52).” This collection coincides with NARA publication T1175 – 45,567 records and 3,990 images as of 20 July 2011; From the Central Plains Region, National Archives.

  • Minnesota Territory (Federal) Census, 1857.  Microfilm of original records located at the National Archives, Central Plains Region. Filmed by NARA, 1973, series T1175, 8 rolls. FHL film #944283, 944284, 944285, 944286, 944287, 944288, 944289 and 944290.
     
  • Minnesota GenWeb Project.
     
  • Minnesota Veterans Graves Registration Index. This database indexes the Veterans Graves Registration reports from 1857 to 1975, the bulk of which are in 1927-1969. It is not a list of all veterans ever buried in Minnesota.
     
  • Warren, Paul Stuart. Research in Minnesota. Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1992.