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Links for Clay County, MN
 

Update in progress October 23, 2006
Index of Links
Census Links Genealogy & History Societies
Cemeteries & Obituaries Minnesota Genealogical Resources
Clay County Churches Online Minnesota Genealogy & History Articles
Vital Records & Genealogy Resources Personal Pages with Clay County Links
Clay County Newspapers North Dakota - Cass County Links
General Clay County Links General Genealogy Resources

 
 
 

 
Census Links

1849 Minnesota Territorial Census
1850 Minnesota Census Images
(The area that would eventually became Clay County was previously part of Pembina County)
1880 Census Index for Clay County, MN
1880 U.S. Census - LDS Searchable Database
1883 Pensioners Online - Minnesota
1895 Minnesota Census - Index for Georgetown
Norwegians living in Minnesota on the 1880 Census
(For Norwegians in Clay County, select "County" from the first pull-down menu and type "Clay" in the space provided.)

Census information for neighboring counties in Minnesota:

Becker County, Minnesota Census
Norman County, Minnesota Census


 
Clay County Cemeteries & Obituaries

Cemeteries of Clay County Lookups
Cemeteries of Clay County, MN
Dalby Cemetery Databasenew!
Detroit Lakes Online Obituaries
(contains obituaries of former Clay County residents)updated
Fargo-Moorhead Forum Obituaries Database
Forum Death Notices (current death noticies only)updated
Forum Archives (includes obituaries from July 1, 1995 - present, must pay for articles downloaded) updated
Interment.net - Cemeteries of Clay County, MN
Minnesota Historical Society Obituary Lookup Service updated
North Dakota: Bismark Tribune Obituaries (contains obituaries of former Clay County residents)
Political Graveyard - Clay County, MN
RRVGS - Funeral Home Indexes, selected North Dakota counties (many former Clay County residents were buried in North Dakota) updated
Time Passages - North Dakota Cemetery Records (includes Clay County, MN)
United States Cemetery Index - Clay County, MNupdated

 
Clay County Churches Onlineupdated

Bethesda Lutheran Church (Moorhead)
Bethlehem Lutheran Church (Ulen)
Christ the King Lutheran Church (Moorhead)
Comstock Lutheran Church
Concordia Lutheran Church (Glyndon)
First Presbyterian Church of Moorhead
Gloria Dei Lutheran Church (Felton)
Glyndon Lutheran Church
Grace United Methodist Church (Moorhead)
Gran Lutheran Church (Hawley)
Hawley Lutheran Church
Hawley United Methodist Church
Hegland Lutheran Church (Hawley)
Hoff Lutheran Church (Rustad)
Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd (Moorhead)
Lysne Lutheran Church (Hawley)
Minnesota Churches
Moorhead First Congregational UCC
Moorhead Seventh-Day Adventist Church
North Buffalo Lutheran Church (Moorhead)
Our Savior's Lutheran Church (Barnesville)
Our Savior's Lutheran Church (Moorhead)
Park Lutheran Church (Hawley)
Rollag Lutheran Church
Roman Catholic Diocese of Crookston
Salem Lutheran Church (Hitterdal)
Scandia Lutheran Church (Averill)
Solem Lutheran Church (Hawley)
St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (Georgetown)
St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center (Moorhead)
Trinity Lutheran Church (Moorhead)
Trinity Lutheran Church (Sabin)
United Church of Christ Minnesota Conference

 
Clay County Historical & Genealogical Societies

American Swedish Institute
Clay County Historical Society
Clay County Historical Society Archives Information
Minnesota Genealogical Society
Minnesota State Historical Society
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center (University Archives, Moorhead State University)
Norwegian-American Historical Association
Red River Valley Genealogy Society updated
Vesterheim Genealogical Center (Norwegian-American Genealogy)

 
Clay County Genealogical Resources & Vital Records

Birth Certificate Index, 1900-1922 (MHS) new!
Bureau of Land Management - Land Patent Search

Clay County MN GenForum
Clay County Recorder's Office updated
Clay County Vital Records Information
Concordia College Library - Genealogy Services
Death Certificate Index, 1904-2001 (MHS)
Death Record Index, 1872-1980 (Clay County Recorder)new!
Fargo-Moorhead Forum Obituaries Database

Genealogy Helplist - Minnesota
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
Local Minnesota History - Clay County
Marriage Record Index, 1872-1939 (Clay County Recorder)new!
Minnesota Biographies - Clay County

MnLINK - Minnesota Library Information Network
Northern Lights Library Network catalog
Park Genealogical Books - Clay County Books
Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness - Minnesota
VitalChek - Clay County, MN
Vital Records Information - Clay County, MN

 
Clay County Newspapers

Barnesville Record-Review (contact information, includes email)
Fargo-Moorhead Forum
Hawley Herald (contact information only)
Minnesota Newspaper Association
Ulen Union (contact information, includes email)

 
Personal Web Pages with Clay County Connections

Ancestors of Esther Elizabeth Nelson Huebner (Karla Huebner's genealogy page)
Barb Bednarz's Homepage (Thysell and Melhus families)
Cara Mumford's Genealogy Page
Fritz Hennebohle of Moorhead & Oakport Twp - Biography
Grover Family Tree (descendants of Tarje A. & Gelene Grover)
"Life on the Fraction" (Anfinson family from Norway to Clay County to Pennington County) 
Marilyn and Cliff Moen's Home Page (Ole & Anne Thorsrud Register Report)
Melhus / Thysell Gedcom (Barb Bednarz's gedcom)
Mumford Gedcom (Buckingham & Mumford families in Glyndon)
Onan Genealogy and Family History (Warren Onan & Marcus Onan migrated to Moorhead)
Purfuerst Family in Minnesota (includes some Hammerstrom's & Olson's from Clay County)
Tinjum Ancestry (Tinjum family from Ulen)

 
General Clay County Links

Town of Barnesville
City of Moorhead
Fargo-Moorhead Convention and Visitor's Bureau
Gateway to Counties - Clay County, MN
Lake Agassiz Regional Library
US Counties - Clay County, MN
Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion

 
Cass County, North Dakota Links

Cass County NDGenWeb Archives
Dakota Territory 1885 Census Database
North Dakota Biography Index Database
North Dakota Naturalization Records Database

 
Genealogical Resources for Minnesota

6th Minnesota Infantry in the Civil War
American Civil War Research and Genealogy Database
Archives and Manuscript Repositories of Primary Sources (Scroll down for Minnesota)
Books We Own - Minnesota
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System
Coleen's Cemetery Index Page
Demographical Database for Southern Sweden
Digital Archive of Norway
First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry (1861-1864)
Genealogy Resources Available at the University of Minnesota Libraries
Genie Angels - Minnesota
Immigration History Research Center
Iron Range Research Center
Microfilm Records for Minnesota at Heritage Quest
Minnesota GenWeb
Minnesota Historical Society Research Service
Norway List Lookups Page
Park Genealogical Books - Catalog
Pioneering the Upper Midwest: Searchable Online Books from MI, MN, and WI, 1830-1920
Polish Genealogical Society of Minnesota
Scandinavian Research on the Internet
Yahoo Genealogy Club Library

 
Articles on Minnesota History & Genealogy

A Brief History of Land Settlement in Minnesota (at the Becker County, MN site)
Ancestry.com - Minnesota State Resources
Description of the Land Survey System (at the St. Clair County, MI site but relevant to Minnesota)
Minnesota History: A Chronology
Minnesota Research Outline (LDS Family History Society site)
Park Genealogical Books - Minnesota Church Archives
Park Genealogical Books - Minnesota Research Notes

 
General Genealogy Resources

Ancestry.com
Cyndi's List
Daughters of the American Revolution
Family Tree Maker
GenCircles
GENDEX -- WWW Genealogical Index
GenForum
Higginson Book Company
LDS Family Search Site
Migrations
RootsWeb
Translating Dictionaries
USGenWeb

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