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
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 "The Fine Print"
Watonwan County Coordinator: Martha A Crosley Graham
State Coordinator: Tim Stowell
Assistant State Coordinator: Karen De Groote
For information about adopting a Minnesota County, Please Contact Tim
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