Dakota County, Minnesota
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History ~ Biographies ~ Maps ~ What's New ~ Lookups ~ Queries
Vital Records ~ Military ~ Obituaries ~ Cemeteries
Native American's ~ Family Search: Films & Historical Images ~ Crime & Punishment ~Odds and Ends
Dakota's Neighbors
Goodhue ~ Hennepin ~ Ramsey ~ Rice ~ Scott ~ Washington, Minnesota
Pierce ~ St Croix, Wisconsin
| Native American's ~ Family Search: Films & Historical Images ~ Crime & Punishment ~ Odds and Ends Native American Resources Dakota County is host to the Ojibwe Tribe "Tracing Your American Indian Ancestry" There are 11 federally recognized American Indian Tribes in Minnesota A search on Archive.org site using "Indians in Minnesota" gives this result. |||☺||| Native Americans ~ Wiki + Additional History which includes the Dakota Wars There are 11 federally recognized Tribes in Minnesota A search on the Archive.org Site shows these results. News Article: Burial Mounds U.S.,Records Related to Enrollment of Eastern Cherokee by Guion Miller, 1908-1910 WA Indian Enrollment / Allotments, 1911-1919 Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889 [Note: There are Bios for Native Americans]  Family Search: Historical Images Family Search has an awesome collection of Resources, many of which are in a separate section: These are filmed records that are not typically found doing generic searches on FamilySearch Here is the list for Dakota County |||☺||| Additionally there is a large list of Military Films Film #'s: 7552389: 1870-1992, 8610801: 1853-1939, 8594290: 1851-1976 8594291: 1819-1975, 8731285: 1919-1962, 8731283: 1917-1990 8731284: 1868-1990, 7796988: 1896-1936, 100132718: 1941-1946 4203990: 1918, 4204051: 1917-1918, 100132717: 1941-1946 Access: Log Into Family Search, Search, Catalog, Insert film # of Interest into 'Fiche/Film Slot |||☺||| Naturalization Records  |||☺||| Here are some Tax Record Films FS; Historical Images Tax Records 100857279: 1890-1895 ~ 100857278: 1880-1895 ~ 100857277: 1896-1901 Crime and Punishment Minnesota Public Criminal Hisotry |||☺||| Family Search FS: United States Prison Records Family Search, Catalog, Film: Prison Records 1617966 ~ Mc Neil Island 1906: Crime Booklet 956170 ~ Territorial Prison at Yuma, AZ 978902 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1851-1867 [Index] 978903 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1851-1867, Register 978904 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1876-1889, Register 978905 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1889-1897, Register 978906 Vol A ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, List of Convicts, AC 978906 Vol B ~ 978906 Vol C 978907 ~ CA State Prison, Folsom 978907 ~ Register, 1884-1886 [Prisoner #s 11092-12354] |||☺||| Historical Records: FBI "Vault" Historical Information: Minnesota State Prisons Bureau of Criminal Apprehension: Minnesota Odds and Ends >>>What's New<<< Medical Directories: "Medical and Surgical Directory of The United States" R L Polk & Co, Publishers, 1886 [MN Files] "Medical and Surgical Register of The United States" R L Polk, Publishers, Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago 1890 [MN Files] Military Information is also included in these Books. Such As... Officers Of the Medical Department of the United States Army And Hospital Stewards. Medical Corps of the United States Navy Medical Officers Of the U. S. Marine Hospital Service. Including Acting Assistant Surgeons And Hospital Stewards. Note: There are more of these Directories for the following years: Scroll [Archive.org Site] Years: 1890, 1893, 1896, 1898,1900, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1917 The National Archives has a really nice set of digitized records that can be free accessed. Please use this link for access. |||☺||| Book Assortment: Crime, Biography, Medical There are download links for Archive.org & Google E Book Items "The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States" Edited By: William B Atkinson, M D: Author of "Hints in the Obstertic Procedure," etc... Philadelphia: Charles Robson, 1878 There are three Indexes, "Alpha", "Local" & "Analytical" The two most useful are Alpha and Local The Indexes are Here The Book can be read online or downloaded. "Woman's Who's Who of America" A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada 1914-1915: John William Leonard, Editor-in-Chief New York: The American Commonwealth Company There is no Alpha Index, instead the Authors saw fit to make one that is titled: "Her Married Name". There is an Addenda - Corrections set of pages. The Bios are listed Alphabetically. The Addenda and 'Married Name' The book can be read online or downloaded "Men of America" A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries Edited By: John W Leonard L R Hamersly & Company One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1908 There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical : Google Books: Read Online or Download "Men and Women of America" A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries L R Hamersly & Company One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1910 Copyright 1909 By L R Hamersly & Company, New York There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical Read Online or Download "The American Bar" The Professional Directoy of Lawyers of the World Sarah Livermore: Editor Sixty-Second Annual Edition: 1980 Published by: Reginald Bishop Forster & Associates, Inc Minneapolis, Minnesota Please use this link for Index and Split Sections "Professional Criminals of America" By Thomas Byrnes Inspector of Police and Chief of Detectives: New York City Cassell & Company, Limited 739 & 741 Broadway, New York Copyright, 1886 By Thomas Brynes Index and Sections are Here Read Online or Download [FS] A new Archive Service: Archive-It Here is a new way to search MN Digital Newspapers Please use this Link I have left the Funeral Card Resource here because of the wide variety of locations of folks. Funeral cards, 1987-1989 Authors: Mankato Mortuary [Mankato, Minnesota] Film # 1651939 Microfilm of original records. The funeral cards are divided into three alphabets, one for each year 1987-1989. The information on the cards are not always complete but could give: the name and address of the deceased and the informant, birthdate and place of deceased, death date and place, where buried, length of residence in community and prior residence, parents' names and birthplace, spouse's name and marriage date, occupation, church membership, survivors' names, funeral costs, and other information. Image Ranges: 1987: 4 - 141 1988: 142-410 1989: 411-644 |||☺||| Canadian Records Canadian Digital Newspapers ~ Canadian Digital Archives ~ Canadian Genealogy There is a website dedicated to Canadian Obits from local papers.Please use this link |||☺||| Newspapers: More Lookups Free Digital Archival Newspapers Minnesota Historical Society - General Resources Minnesota Historical Society: Digital Newspapers |||☺||| Other Sources for Free Archival Digital Newspapers Chronicling America ~ Google News Archives Century Past ~ Illinois Digital Collection Historical Newspapers: Indexed by State [Some Free] Carnegie Mellon Library: Digital Collections |||☺||| California Digital newspapers This Site has a great collection of CA Newspapers, but many of them have articles from other States including Minnesota |||☺||| "Reclaim the Records" The above site uses the 'Freedom of Information' act to initiate access to records. |
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