Cemeteries ~ Military ~ Native American Resources ~ Odds & Ends

Cemeteries
F~A~G - Links to Each Cemetery
Cemetery List "People Legacy" ~ Minnesota Gravestones
First Mennonite Cemetery in Watonwan County: Interment.net
Watonwan Cemeteries "LDS Genealogy"
Riverside Cemetery, Madelia, Watonwan Co., MN
Genealogy Trails: Cemetery Listing with GPS


Military Records & Resources

"What's New"
Civil War Veteran Burial Listings
Vol X
Sherman Lee Pompey
Covering Men In Regiments From Minnesota

FS Wiki:
Minnesota in the Civil War
Another MN Site with War Data "Genealogy Village"

Minnesota Historical Society ~ Fort Snelling
Minnesota Civil War Units ~ Battlefield Maps
Civil War Burials - National Search Engine ~ Civil War Veteran Burials
Compiled Service Records: Union Soldiers

Minnesota and 'The Wars'
Colonial Wars ~ Dakota War of 1862 ~ 150 Years Later
1862 Indian War Claims ~ Civil & Indian Wars: 1861-1865
Spanish American War & Philippine Insurrection
G A R Membership Records
Modern Wars, WW I, WW II, Korea [Ralph Carlson]
WW II Honor List of Dead or Missing
WWII Honor Roll: "In The World War" 1917 ~ 1918 ~ 1919 [FS Book]
Union Soldiers - Burial Locations

Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville, 1866
Here is the list for Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
Here is the List for Army Burials ~ Here is the List for Navy Burials
Minnesota, Veterans Grave Registration Reports, 1930-1975

U.S. Army Generals' reports of Civil War service, 1864 - 1887 [Union Army]
Family Search, Catalog: These records are really interesting, Please use this Link

FS has Prison Burial Records and Burials in National Cemeteries in their Catalog
Homes for Disabled Veterans: 1866-1938: Searchable Database on FS]
"Soldiers of the Great War" [MN]
Military Headstone Applications: FS
1890 Veteran's Schedule: FS Searchable Database

Military Medical Records: National Archives
Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Search: DAR ~ GAR ~ SAR


Native Americans in Watonwan County
There are 11 federally recognized American Indian Tribes in Minnesota
A search on Archive.org site using "Indians in Minnesota" gives this result.
"How to trace Native American Ancestry"

Repatriation Database: Minnesota


"Crime & Punishment"

Minnesota Public Criminal History ~ Search
Prison Records: Family Search Films - Please use this link for a Chart with film Numbers
and...
Prison Records can be found in the FS Catalog, but they take a bit of tweaking to
find them.

Please use this link for Prison Records that can be found on Family Search: Google Drive Link with Folders
The links include Film Numbers Listed Below

LDS Films: 956170 Records of Yuma territorial prison, 1884-1910 [Search]
and
978903: San Quentin Records
Records of the Dead in Federal Prisons - Index
978907: Folsom Prison

Family Search: Prison Record Databases: Chart with Database Names and Dates

"Professional Criminals of America"
By
Thomas Byrnes
Inspector of Police and Chief of Detectives: New York City
Cassell & Company, Limited
739 & 741 Broadway, New York
Copyright, 1886 By Thomas Brynes
The Addenda and Index begin on Page 412
Read Online or Download [FS]


Odds & Ends

Book Assortment: Biography ~ Crime ~  Medical ~ Who's Who
There are  download links for Archive.org & Google E Book Items
What's New - Minnesota Books
Indexes for Minnesota Books Listed Below: Google Drive

All of the Books below may be found either in the FS Catalog, Archive. org Site or Google Books ~ They are fully searchable pdf files.

"Illustrated Album of Biography
of
Southwestern Minnesota..."
Chicago:
Occidental Publishing Company: 1889

"Men of Minnesota
A Collection of the portraits of men prominent in business..."
Published By
The Minnesota Historical Company
215 Nat. Ger. Am. Bank Bldg: 1902

"Memorial Record
Of
Southwestern Minnesota, Illustrated"
Chicago, The Lewis Publishing Company: 1897

"Minnesota and Its People"
Illustrated: Vol's III & IV
Chicago: The S J Clarke Publishing company: 1924

"The United States
Biographical Dictionary
and
Portrait Gallery
of
Eminent and Self-Made Men"
Minnesota Volume
New York and Chicago
American Biographical Publishing Company: 1879

"Who's Who in Minnesota"
Centennial Edition: 1858 - 1958
Hugh L White, Publisher ~ Bernice White, Editor ~ Avis Person, Assoc. Editor

"Who's Who
Among
Minnesota Women..."
Compiled and Published
By
Mary Dillon Foster: 1914

"The Physicians and Surgeons of the United States"
Edited By:
William B Atkinson, M D: Author of "Hints in the Obstertic Procedure," etc...
Philadelphia: Charles Robson, 1878
There are three Indexes, "Alpha", "Local" & "Analytical" The two most useful are Alpha and Local
The Indexes are Here
The Book can be read online or downloaded.

"Woman's Who's Who of America"
A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada
1914-1915: John William Leonard, Editor-in-Chief
New York: The American Commonwealth Company
There is no Alpha Index, instead the Authors saw fit to make one that is titled: "Her Married Name".
There is an Addenda - Corrections set of pages.
The Bios are listed Alphabetically.
The Addenda and 'Married Name'
The book can be read online or downloaded

"Men of America"
A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries
Edited By: John W Leonard
L R Hamersly & Company
One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1908
There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical :
Google Books: Read Online or Download

"Men and Women of America"
A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries
L R Hamersly & Company
One West Thirty Fourth Street, New York city: 1910
Copyright 1909 By
L R Hamersly & Company, New York
There is no TOC or Index ~ Entries are Alphabetical
Read Online or Download

"The American Bar"
The Professional Directoy of
Lawyers of the World
Sarah Livermore: Editor
Sixty-Second Annual Edition: 1980
Published by:
Reginald Bishop Forster & Associates, Inc
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Please use this link for Index and Split Sections

>>>New<<<
A new Archive Service: Archive-It
Here is a new way to search MN Digital Newspapers
Please use this Link

The Funeral Cards are included here because there is a wide variety of locations for folks
Funeral Cards, 1987-1989
Authors:
Mankato Mortuary [Mankato, Minnesota]
Film # 1651939
Microfilm of original records.

The funeral cards are divided into three alphabets, one for each year 1987-1989. The information on the cards are not always complete but could give: the name and address of the deceased and the informant, birthdate and place of deceased, death date and place, where buried, length of residence in community and prior residence, parents' names and birthplace, spouse's name and marriage date, occupation, church membership, survivors' names, funeral costs, and other information.
Image Ranges: 1987: 4 - 141 ~ 1988: 142-410 ~ 1989: 411-644

Swedish Genealogy

Did any of your Family go to Colorado?
Here is info on Colorado Divorces: State Wide
Filmed Records: Family Search ~ Please use this Link
1900 > 1939 & 1975 > 1992
Information Entered:
CO County of Divorce ~ Date & Place of Marriage
Number and Names of Minor Children, if any
Maiden Name Restored ~ Date of Decree


The File below is for Brown County, but there might be Watonwan Folks Registered...

Poor Farm Register, Brown County, 1901-1937
FS Catalog, Film # 175086, Item 2, Img Range: 391-466
There is No Index Register Headings: Top Left Side of Register
Cause of Application / Sick or Well / If Sent away, to what place / Date of Death / Where Buried / Clothing Account [Months]
Top Right Side of Register
Date of Application / Name of Poor Person / From com's Dist No / Nationality / Married or Single / Widow or Widower / Age
Where Born / How Long Resident in: State County, Town, Village / Occupation
Image 396 Begins: Jan 1904

"Reclaim the Records"
The above site uses the 'Freedom of Information'
act to initiate access to records.

"Minnesota Only" Family Search Collections

Minnesota, Brown County, Obituaries, 1855-1990 Minnesota, Cottonwood County, Obituaries, 1850-1990 Minnesota, Obituaries 1865-2006 Minnesota Naturalization Card Index, 1930-1988 Minnesota Naturalization Records and Indexes, 1872-1962 Minnesota Passenger and Crew Lists, 1912-1956
Minnesota Will Records, 1849-1985/ Minnesota, Church Records, 1798-1991 Minnesota, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1869-1940 Minnesota, Military Discharge Records, ca.1917 - ca.1990
Minnesota, Veterans Grave Registration Reports, 1930-1975/ Minnesota, World War I Records, 1918-1941 Minnesota, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947

Minnesota State Census Records
State Records for 1865 ~ 1875 ~ 1885 ~ 1895 ~ 1905
Minnesota Territorial Census: 1857
and lastly...
Minnesota Historical Society: Vital Records