Genealogy Help
Sheet
The Help Sheet below shows you where to
find genealogical source documents. It is only an attempt to point you in the right
direction. Records exist at a variety of sources. Don't forget that a great
source of family information may be your own RELATIVES! or your local Genealogical
Society. Additional help may be found at the South
Dakota Vital Records.
Abbreviations used below include: FHC-Family History
Center, SDGS-SD Gen. Society,
SDSHS-South
Dakota State Historical Society , NARA-National Archives, RCSGR
- Rapid City Society For Genealogical Research, LC-Library
of Congress, DAR-Daughters
of the American Revolution, WPA-Work
Projects Admin, CC-County Courthouses.
Genealogical Records Help Sheet |
|
Type of Records |
Some places to Look |
| Birth Records | Vital Records, FHC, CC, Churches, SDSHS |
| Death & Burial Records | Vital Records, FHC, CC, Funeral Homes, SDSHS, Churches |
| Mortality Schedules | FHC, SDSHS |
| Marriage & Divorce Records | Vital Records, CC, RCSGR, Churches, DAR, FHC |
| State & Territorial Census | SDSHS, FHC, CC, RCSGR |
| Federal Census | FHC, NARA, SDSHS, RCSGR |
| Genealogies | SDSHS, SDGS, RCSGR, DAR |
| Military Records | NARA, SDSHS, State Adjutant General's Office, FHC, CC |
| Land Records | SDSHS, FHC, CC |
| Naturalization and Citizenship | NARA, SDSHS, FHC, CC |
| Emigration / Immigration | Public and Private Libraries |
| Church Records | Churches, FHC |
| Court & Probate Records | CC-County Clerk, FHC, RCSGR (wills) |
| Newspaper Records | SDSHS, Library, RCSGR, Rapid City Journal |
| Manuscript Collections | SDSHS, LC, FHC, Public Libraries |
| Bible Records | Family Records, SDSHS, FHC |
| Biographies | SDSHS, FHC, SDGS, RCSGR, LC |
| Histories | SDSHS, SDGS, RCSGR, LC, Public Libraries |
| Cemetery Records | FHC, RCSGR, DAR, WPA, Funeral Homes |