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Roseau County LookUp Room

Remember: 

  • Limit lookups to one name (or two, if it's a married couple).

  • Be Specific (no 'anything with x surname' requests)

  • Thank your volunteer!


Lookup Volunteer: Arlene Seydel
Title Description/Notes
Roseau County Heritage Published by the Historical Society and written by the People of Roseau County-1992; this is a great book with personal family history on just about everybody with a lot of pictures.
County of Roseau Centennial - 1895 - 1995  History of the County and personal stories of the people who lived here.
Pioneers and Progress- Badger, MN 1906-1981  History of the town of Badger and it's people.
Up Home - The land & the people 1994 Roseau County Writing, Art, and Music written by locals
Footsteps in Education History of Roseau County Rural Schools (1894-1970)
Remembrances, Anthology of Roseau County Early settlers.
Pioneers! O Pioneers - Book 1 and Book II Stories of early settlers in Roseau County written by their families.
The North Land (1975) History of Roseau County
Roseau Lutheran Parish (1989) Roseau, Salol, Stafford churches - congregation members listed with pictures
Roseau County Land atlas (1973) Township & landowners
Bi-Centennial Pictorial Atlas 1776-1976 Roseau County
Heritage Atlas Roseau County (1981) Townships, residents, pictures
Land atlas (1997) Townships & landowners

Lookup Volunteer: Don & Ann
Roseau County Heritage Book
Pioneers to Pioneers I and II
The Northland
The Northwest Angle
Remembrances

Lookup Volunteer: Holly Evans
1910 Roseau Census (Heritage Quest CD)
Pioneers! O Pioneers!: A History of Early Settlers in Roseau County, 1885-1910


Lookup Researcher: Lynn Hargreaves
Minnesota Death Certificate Index 

The Minnesota Death Certificate Index covers the years 1908-1966 and is online at the Minnesota Historical Society's website (http://people.mnhs.org/dci/Search.cfm). 

If you find the name you are looking for and would like a copy of the certificate, Lynn will copy and mail the certificate to you. The cost is $3.00 per certificate.

To request a copy:

  • Put MN Death Index in the subject line.

  • Include the following in the body of your email: Certificate ID#, full name of the individual, date of death, county in which s/he died.

  • There is no limit to the number of certificates you can request.

 

 Obituary Lookups 

Lynn will do obituary lookups in any newspaper available at the Minnesota Historical Society (http://collections.mnhs.org/newspapers/arsearch.html).

If you would like an obituary lookup, Lynn will do the lookup and mail it to you. 

If you know the date of death of the individual:

  • Put MN Obituary Lookup in the subject line.

  • Include the following in the body of your email: full name of the individual, date of death, city and county in which s/he died.

  • There is no limit to the number of certificates you can request.

  • The cost to search one newspaper is $5.00. To search all newspapers covering that area is $8.00. Search consists of 7 days after the date of death in daily newspapers and 4 weeks after the date of death in weekly newspapers.

If you DO NOT know the date of death of the individual the guidelines are the same as above EXCEPT:

  • The cost is $10.00 for a one-newspaper search and $14.00 for all extant newspapers covering that area. 

 


 

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