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have a link you think I should know about, please
send me an e-mail. I will make an effort to
remove broken links and add new ones as I find
ones of interest for your research in Scott
County and Minnesota in general.
MINNESOTA LINKS
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-
General Reference to MINNESOTA
GENEALOGY
CEMETERIES
Cemeteries
and Memorial Sites in Scott County This site
documents where various politicians and other
notables are buried. Created and maintained
by Lawrence Kestenbaum.
GENEALOGICAL &
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
Minnesota
State Historical Society
Minnesota
Genealogical Society
Scott County Historical Society.
Historical
information, collection, research center, and
e-mail contact
GENERAL
Park
Genealogical Books Research Notes Many
selections for research in MN Counties and
surrounding states.
MAPS
1895
Minnesota Atlas - Scott County
Panoramic Maps 1847-1929.
View a map of Shakopee in 1869!! The
panoramic map was a popular cartographic form
used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns
during the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views,
perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps
are nonphotographic representations of cities
portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique
angle. Although not generally drawn to scale,
they show street patterns, individual buildings,
and major landscape features in perspective. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/panhome.html
Minnesota Historical Society's Map
Collection: contains 1,350 historical
county atlases and plat books showing land
ownership, as well as fire insurance maps showing
individual structures.
A
Guide to the Records of Minnesota's
Public Lands, by Gregory Kinney
and Lydia Lucas, Minnesota Historical
Society, Division of Archives and
Manuscripts, 1985, 121 pages. This
publication is out-of-print, but can be
viewed at the Minnesota Historical
Society and other libraries.
"The records described in this guide
document the state of Minnesota's
acquisition, sale, and management of its
trust fund, railroad grant, and related
lands, as well as the federal land survey
of Minnesota and the initial transfer of
title to public lands from the federal
government to the state or to private
parties. The approximately 800 cubic feet
of records were created primarily by four
agencies: the State Land Office,
the Land Department of the State
Auditor's office, the U.S. General Land
Office in Minnesota, and the U.S.
Surveyor General for Minnesota. The guide
also summarizes land-related records in
other state agencies, with individual
descriptions of particularly pertinent
records series."
Windows
to the Past: a bibliography of Minnesota
county atlases, by Mai Treude,
Center for Urban and Regional Affairs,
University of Minnesota, 1980, Pub. No.
CURA 80-3, 187 pages. This publication is
out-of-print, so look for it at your
library, check interlibrary loan or
contact CURA directly. As
time permits, CURA staff may be able to
photocopy listings for a particular
county of interest.
"A comprehensive listing of
Minnesota's county atlases and where they
are available. Published from 1867 to the
present, these atlases contain records of
land use and land ownership, directories
of businesses and residences, photographs
of buildings and people, genealogies,
county histories, and advertisements. In
an introduction to the bibliography, a
brief history of the county atlas and how
it developed in Minnesota is presented
along with a number of illustrations from
Minnesota atlases."
SOCIAL SECURITY
Social
Security Death Index Search the SSDI at Rootsweb
SCOTT COUNTY
Official
Scott County page maps, history, politial info, etc
Early
Settlers of St. John's Parish Union Hill in 1867 Surnames
from a history written by Victorin Ruhland in
1967.
MISCELLANEOUS
LINKS
Genealogy Libraries on the
WWW. Genealogy friendly libraries from
the US and Europe. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~holdiman/LSG/libraries.html
AncientFaces
http://www.ancientfaces.com is the largest visual
genealogy exchange on the Internet.
Obituary Lookup Volunteers-
State/Country Index
The
Obituary Lookup Volunteers for the United States
are grouped by state. On each state's web page, the
volunteers are listed by county. For the rest of
the world, the volunteers are grouped by country
or continent, and on each web page the volunteers
are listed by region.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~obitl/ovlist.html
Books We Own
A list of resources owned or accessed by
individuals who are willing to look up
genealogical information for others. This is a
FREE service, but volunteers may ask for
reimbursement of copies or postage. There are
over 1500 volunteers. Please read the
"helpful tips" and other information on
this site before requesting a lookup.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~bwo/
Dating old Photographs - Many of us have photographs
that are undated, but this site will show you how
a photograph can be dated with a considerable
degree of precision.
http://www.familychronicle.com/phototip.htm
Cyndi's List of
Genealogy Sites on the Internet More than 185,150 links to genealogical
websites.
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