Steele County, Minnesota
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Hello:
My name is Martha, I do not live in Minnesota, but have roots deep in her soil.
I am the new Coordinator for Steele County
Questions? Research Query?
I might be able to assist in locating that missing piece of your 'Ancestral Pie'.
Contact: Martha
With Thanks to Kathy Hines for her years of dedication to the MNGenWeb
Table of Contents
History ~ Biographies ~ Search ~ Maps ~ Queries ~ Lookups ~ What's New ~ 'Old Steele County Files'
Vital Records ~ Obituaries ~ Family Search: Historical & Catalog Resources
Cemeteries ~ Military ~ Native American Resources ~ Crime & Punishment ~ Odds & Ends
New Site> 'Minnesota Meanderings' [Off Site] Eclectic MN Resources
This Site is part of
The MNGenWeb and The USGenWeb®
Hello:
My name is Martha, I do not live in Minnesota, but have roots deep in her soil.
I am the new Coordinator for Steele County
Questions? Research Query?
I might be able to assist in locating that missing piece of your 'Ancestral Pie'.
Contact: Martha
With Thanks to Kathy Hines for her years of dedication to the MNGenWeb
Table of Contents
History ~ Biographies ~ Search ~ Maps ~ Queries ~ Lookups ~ What's New ~ 'Old Steele County Files'
Vital Records ~ Obituaries ~ Family Search: Historical & Catalog Resources
Cemeteries ~ Military ~ Native American Resources ~ Crime & Punishment ~ Odds & Ends
New Site> 'Minnesota Meanderings' [Off Site] Eclectic MN Resources
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Cemeteries ~ Military ~ Native American Resources ~ Odds & Ends
Cemeteries "People Legacy" ~ Minnesota Gravestones ~ Find~A~Grave There were Cemetery Files found in the old Steele County Files Cemetery Locations and Transcriptions: All of the Cemetery files have been reformatted, Searchable pdf files: These were old static files recorded from the mid 1980's until about 2005. Ron Houghtelin [Deceased] Use the links below for Cemeteries on This List  They are in alpha Batches: A - C ~ D - F ~ G - L ~ M - N ~ O - R ~ S ~ T - Z The Memorial for George Sawyer is in the 'G-L' File There are Cems in the above files which are also on F~A~G There is a Text File for Mansfield Lutheran Cemetery Below is the listing of Steele County Cemeteries on F~A~G  Cemetery Topo Maps "AnyPlace America" - Steele County and lastly: Film #4128791 List of Cemeteries by Township: With Location, Contacts, Phone Numbers & Directions Pages: 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5 ~ 6 ~ 7 ~ 8 ~ 9 Odds from the Old Steele Co Files Aurora Lutheran Cemetery (offsite) - contact Christine Larson [Not updated since 2003 -RW Page] Dalby database and lookups (offsite) - contact John Dalby Thompson Cemetery (offsite) - contact Christine Larson Union Cemetery in rural Blooming Prairie (offsite) - contact Gary Jacobsen  Military Records & Resources Civil War Civil War Veteran Burial Listings Vol X Sherman Lee Pompey Covering Men In Regiments From Minnesota |||~☺~||| Union Soldiers Buried at Andersonville, 1866 The Book is arranged alphabetically by State and is fully searchable. There are also Army & Navy Burial Lists at the end of the State Lists. |||~☺~||| 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 Reports of Civil War [Union Army] Generals ~ Source: Family Search Catalog Schedules enumerating Union veterans and widows of Union veterans of the Civil War - FS:Collection |||~☺~||| 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] WWW II Honor List of Dead or Missing Rosters of Enlisted Men: County, 1916-1918 [ FS Wiki, Many Years & States] Please use this link: FS Collection |||~☺~||| Minnesota, World War I Records, 1918-1941 [Naturalization] Family Search: Wiki & National Archives: Cemetery, Burial & Casualty Records |||~☺~||| 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] - Very Nice Pictures Military Headstone Applications: FS 1890 Veteran's Schedule: FS Searchable Database |||~☺~||| Military Medical Records: National Archives Records of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery |||~☺~||| USGW Archives Contributions: Search: DAR ~ GAR ~ SAR Native Americans There are 11 federally recognized American Indian Tribes in Minnesota A search on Archive.org site using "Indians in Minnesota" gives this result./a> "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 Index and Sections are Here Read Online or Download [FS] Odds & Ends >>>What's New<<< 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. "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 "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 Swedish ~ Icelandic & Norweigian Genealogical Resources Steele County Directory: 1938 [Extracted from Waseca, Steele, Dodge City Directory [Archive.org]] |||~☺~||| There are miscellaneous Resources in both the Historical and Catalog Sections of FS. Below is a list with links: Minnesota, Steele County, nationalization records, 1853-1954 Author: Minnesota. Disrtict Court (Steele County); Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minnesota) Minnesota, Steele County, obituary file, 1865-2006 Author: Steele County Historical Society (Owatonna, Minnesota); Steele County Historical Society (Owatonna, Minnesota) Minnesota, Steele County, will records, 1858-1984 Author: Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minnesota) Minnesota, Clay and Steele County obituaries : [Collection] 1865-2006 Minnesota, Steele County, cemeteries by township, 1865-2006 Minnesota, Steele County, naturalization records, 1918 Author: Minnesota. Commission of Public Safety; Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul, Minnesota) Minnesota Quaker Records [Family Search] Minnesota, World War I records : Large Listing Probate records, ca. 1856-1940 Author: Minnesota. Probate Court (Steele County) |||~☺~||| Did any of your Family go to Colorado? Here is info on Colorado Divorces: State Widespan> Filmed Records: Family Search 1900 > 1939 & 1975 > 1992 Information Entered: CO County of Divorce ~ Date & Place of Marriage Number and Names of Minor Children, if any MMaiden Name Restored ~ Date of Decree FS Catalog: Films and Links |||~☺~||| "Reclaim the Records" The above site uses the 'Freedom of Information'/span> acact to initiate access to records. |||~☺~||| Family Search: "Searchable Collections: Minnesota" If you wish to look at FS Collections that are Specific to Content, Go Here Minnesota Historical Society: Vital Records Naturalization Record search at at the Iron Range Research Center (offsite) BLM Records |||~☺~||| lastly... 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 |
"The Fine Print"
Steele 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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