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Find out how Maps
Can Help You Trace Your Family Tree.
Use this system to find Faribault Co. towns, rivers,
lakes, railroads, etc. - Blue
Earth in the Tiger Map System
View U.S.
County Outline Maps (by
state) from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the
University of Texas at Austin.
View a list of 188 selected Faribault
County Features
(cemeteries, churches, populated places, streams, etc.) from the
GNIS (Geographic Names Information System) or
you can make your own query
of the GNIS for other
locations.
How to order 7.5' quadrangle and other maps from the
USGS (US Geological Survey).
If you would like to order 7.5' quadrangle maps for your
computer visit the USGS (US Geological Survey) and check out their
DRG
Maps (Digital Raster
Graphics) on CDROM. All of Kentucky is now available. Check
DRG
Availability.
Would you like to know what the United States looked
like during a particular time in it's history? View some of the
Historical
Maps of the United States
from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the
University of Texas at Austin.
Here are some Minnesota links and ones of general interest for genealogy research:
Minnesota Libraries
- University Of Minnesota Genealogy Web Page
- University of Minnesota Libraries Home Page - catalog and more.
- University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center
- WEBPALS - Minnesota Statewide Project for Automated Library Systems
- PALS Library Catalog System - TELNET SITE - library catalog system for MN History Center and other state library systems.
Other libraries
Obituaries
- Minnesota Obituaries - for selected newspapers since July 95 - searchable online. Newspapers included are St. Paul Pioneer Press, Mpls Star Tribune, Brooklyn Park Sun Post, Lamberton News, New Ulm Journal, Redwood Gazette, Sun Current (S. St. Paul/Inver Grove Heights), Wabasso Standard & Washington Co. Bulletin.
- Obituary Daily Times - US and Canadian newspaper obituaries beginning in 1995.
Additional Minnesota Societies/Organizations
- Directory of Minnesota Historical Organizations
- Nowegian-American Genealogical Association
- Minn Genealogical Society Computer Interest Group
- Genealogical CIGs located in Minnesota
- Irish Genealogical Society, Int'l - based in Minnesota but covering all Irish research, with some extra on Minnesota.
- Minnkota Genealogical Society (East Grand Forks, MN and Grand Forks, ND area).
Databases - US
- Minnesota Family Genealogies Online
- Genealogy Helplist for Minnesota
- The Genealogist's Index to the World Wide Web by John Rigdon. This is where queries and databases are indexed for the entire project.
- ROOTS-L Minnesota databases and files - searchable index and lots of links to Minn genealogy resources.
- Roots-L Surname List from RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative.
- WorldGenWeb - your link to the world.
- Olive Tree Genealogy Home Page - a little of everything - even ships' passenger lists.
- Research Tools - CD Lookups
- Ancestry's Social Security Death Index Search online
- Gene Stark's Gendex
Index
