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 Tracing your family's history is a fascinating journey. We have a list of resources to help you along the way. The library also offers obituary retrivial (list of papers available below) that will help you dig deeper into your family's past.

Try our genealogy databases.

if you are outside of the library click here

Ancestry Library Edition - Your ancestors left clues along the way!

Not at the library? Try Ancestry.com for basic searches

 

Pioneer Village Genealogy Information

http://www.pvillage.org/cemetery.asp

The Pennington County Historical Society was incorporated on December 1, 1938. The society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge about the history of Pennington County and to relate it to the history of the State of Minnesota.

This site contains over 3100 photographs, digitally scanned and available online, plus nearly 20,000 cemetery records and over 115,000 obituary records.

 If you are interested in receiving past newspaper articles, such as obituaries, please email trfobits@nwrlib.org

We have these newspapers in our microfilm collection.

 

Other Online Resources

 

 

Need more resources?

Try these:

http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html
This site is an online compiled record of pedigrees for the royal families of Britain. Take a look at the pedigrees of Queen Victoria or Mary, Queen of Scots.


http://www.CyndisList.com/biograph.htm
Cyndi’sList, one of the largest sites for genealogical links, offers this great index of biographies. Biographies are considered compiled records because they usually include information gathered from a number of sources.


http://familysearch.org
This site is for the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. The Family History Library is the largest genealogical library in the world. Click on “Browse Categories”, and then click on “Family Histories and Genealogies” to see if someone has already given the library information on your family tree.

http://ssdi.genealog y.rootsweb.com/
This is a online Social Security Death Index. Give it a try to see what kind of information you might find on one of your ancestors!

http://www.genexchange.com/query.cfm
Post a query at this site, if you’d like.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/3959/Generev.htm
This site offers free genealogical software that you can download, if you think you’re ready for the whole enchilada!

http://www.familytreemaker.com/submit.html
Submit your pedigree or see if someone else has already submitted a pedigree on your family at the world family tree site housed by Family Tree Maker.

http://www.everton.com/oe3-18/papers.htm
Everton’s Genealogical Helper Online outlines “How Newspapers Can Help You With Your Research.”

WEBSITES ON GENETICS

http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9612/htm/family.htm
This is a helpful article from the Mayo Clinic. It reviews why collecting family medical information is so important.

http://www.oz.net/~markhow/w riting/helix.htm
In this interesting article, entitled “Double Helix Genealogy,” Mark Howells muses on what the future may look like for genealogists who begin doing family history using DNA samples instead of records.

http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0148-7299/
This is the homesite for the American Journal of Medical Genetics, a key source of research on genetic science.