Researching Minnesota Newspapers

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Need Minnesota historical newspaper research? Check out these pages on the Minnesota Historical Society’s website. 

 Don’t forget to check newspapers in bordering states and provinces, too. City and county libraries, college and university libraries, and county historical societies have a variety of indexes, microfilmed newspapers, and some have digitized newspapers. Some have subscriptions to major newspaper collection sites. check what is available that way before paying for a subscription. This blog post is not meant to be comprehensive coverage of locating newspapers related to Minnesota but do a bit more digging and you may find some neat surprises. Way before the advent of online newspapers, we had many indexes and abstracts in print form and those are still on many library shelves.

Some major sites with links to, indexes to, and/or searchable images of newspapers covering Minnesota. Don’t forget to check newspapers in bordering states and provinces, too. 

Final reminder, though MNHS is the main repository for historic and current newspapers in the state, many are still in paper format there and at other repositories. Copyright laws also mean many newspapers are not yet free to be digitized unless an active newspaper makes special agreements with a newspaper website. 

 

Chronicling America newspapers now includes all 50 states and more

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A press release from the U.S. Library of Congress surprised me. I had not known we still had someThis image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is Chronicling-50-1.jpg holdout states in the National Newspaper Project/Digital Newspaper Project in recent years. It now covers all 50 states+! “The success of the program over the past 18 years has extended the collection scope to the current date range of 1777-1963, to include any language published in the United States, and to include newspapers published in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands.”

 

 

From the website:

“The following is a guest post written by Robin Pike, Head of the Digital Collections Services Section in the Library’s Serial and Government Publications Division.

The National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) has reached two major milestones this September: the inclusion of New Hampshire as the 50th state to join the program and making 20 million pages freely available to the public on the Chronicling America website.

Dartmouth College will serve as the New Hampshire state hub, partnering with the New Hampshire State Library, the New Hampshire Historical Society, and the University of New Hampshire Library to identify historical newspapers that reflect the state’s political, economic, and cultural history for inclusion in Chronicling America. Among the first newspapers to be digitized and added to the online repository are

A handful of ways to view my genealogy presentations from your home.

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I receive emails and blog messages asking when I will be speaking in someone’s area. I’m still scheduling only virtual presentations. That can be 1-4 topics on one day/evening or more over a couple days. I’m still avoiding air travel and long car rides.

Virtual presentations also present savings for the sponsoring organization. No big hall rental, no airplane fare, baggage fee, parking cost, hotel stay or mileage cost to pay for me. traveling there. The organizations pay my speaking fee, and that’s it!

In the next two months, I will be appearing virtually in seven states and in all states and countries on your computer or tablet. In January, I will go to Illinois and Florida virtually. https://genealogybypaula.com/speaking/speaking-calendar/ Many of the organizations provide free access to the presentation(s) initially but to view it again or to access the handout requires membership in the organization. The initial free viewing opportunity is both a public service and a way to fulfill the educational aim of these organizations. That’s still a bargain. Some groups charge a fee for viewing presentations to recoup their costs and to provide future educational endeavors. Other groups require membership to view the presentation from the start. We need to support all historical and genealogical organizations. They also need to pay for equipment and for the platform such as Zoom or GoToWebinar for such presentations. Each has different levels of subscriptions and thus the reason some cut off registration at a certain point.

Another question is how do I view some of your future and past presentations? Several answers for that!

  1. Check my website https://genealogybypaula.com/ under the Speaking tab for “Paula’s Upcoming Presentations” and click on the name of the organization for details on joining the event.
  2. Then scroll down that page for a list of the last few years of my presentations. You will see the name of the organizations for which I presented. Then check that group’s website for a webinar library and the requirements to view them.
  3. Do a google search on my name and many past and upcoming dates appear.
  4. Check Conference Keeper https://conferencekeeper.org/ for not just my upcoming presentations but those by others.
  5. Check Legacy Family Tree Webinars for their humongous library of past webinars by a wide variety of speakers including me. The bulk of the first viewings are free. To review or view even months later, purchase a subscription for just $49.95 and that includes all syllabus (handout) material. My affiliate link for subscriptions is http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=1739and that also helps support this blog.
  6. Check the free handful of recorded presentations I did for Ancestry Academy https://www.ancestryacademy.com/browse where you’ll find the free presentations and handouts I did on Native American records, Railroad Records, and WPA research.
  7. Check Research Write connect Academy for my course on “Researching U.S. Government Records (101).” There is a fee but also a lengthy handout and a private Facebook group for questions and discussion.  https://www.researchwriteconnect.com/researching-u-s-government-records-101

  8. Next June 18-23, I will be instructing virtually in two courses at the annual Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh. Watch https://www.gripitt.org in a couple months for full details on the courses offered.

Addendum to my recent webinar, Michigan: An Upper Midwest Researcher’s Dream

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When I presented this webinar for Legacy Family Tree Webinars on September 14, I promised to add some things to my blog that weren’t in the syllabus but mentioned in the webinar. I thank Jamie W. for the reminder of that promise. 

Michigan genealogy research? View my webinar for free for a week.

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I had a great time last night presenting live my webinar, “Michigan: An Upper Midwest Researchers Dream.” It is now available to view at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for free for a limited time.

Webinar Description

Michigan is a state of many people: Native Americans, fur traders, French explorers, British military, and then settlers from all over the world including many from Canada and the Northeast U.S. The records and indexes are amazing as are the libraries, historical societies, archives, universities that are filled with resources. Online indexes and record images add to the dream. Learn about the people, resources, businesses, military, repositories, indexes, and vital records.

View the Recording at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 28 minute recording of “Michigan: An Upper Midwest Researchers Dream” is now available to view in the webinar library for free for a limited time. The webinar includes the Q&A at the end.

The 9-page syllabus is available only to Legacy Family Tree Webinars subscribers. Join today and you have a year to view all the webinars and syllabus material. Please join via my affiliate link http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=1739 which also gives you access to the past 1800+ webinars and thousands of syllabus pages for $49.95 a year. Thank you to Legacy and MyHeritage for hosting it.


Free Webtember continues: join me on September 14th for Michigan genealogy

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Michigan: An Upper Midwest Researcher’s Dream. That’s my title for this free webinar on September 14th at 8:00 p.m EDT including Michigan. That’s 7 p.m. for me in Minnesota. Michigan is a state of many people: Native Americans, fur traders, French explorers, British military, and then settlers from all over the world including many from Canada and the Northeast U.S. The records and indexes are amazing as are the libraries, historical societies, archives, universities that are filled with resources. Online indexes and record images add to the dream. Learn about the people, resources, businesses, military, and vital records. Learn about the places to find records online and off, see record content by generation, gather some history, and be ready to find your own ancestors and collateral lines. I’ll tell a bit about my connections to the “Great Lakes State” that is bordered by four of the five Great Lakes!

The presentation is free for everyone. It is accompanied by a 9-page syllabus for those who are members of Legacy Family Tree Webinars. (To join via my affiliate link http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/?aid=1739 which also gives you access to the past 1800+ webinars and thousands of syllabus pages for $49.95 a year.)

To register for this free webinar: https://familytreewebinars.com/webinar/michigan-an-upper-midwest-researchers-dream hosted by Legacy Family Tree Webinars and MyHeritage.com.

Webtember! Genealogy Webinars all September!

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Legacy Family Tree Webinars and MyHeritage are providing some fantastic free webinars plus a free genealogy conference this month. Check out the details below and let your audience know about September 2022’s live webinars:

  • Shackles, shekels and shrapnel: the exodus to the Southern seas by Michelle Patient
  • Changing Places, Changing Borders: Overcoming geographic challenges by Dave Obee
  • Tracing migrating ancestors: Who, what, where, when, why and how by Myko Clelland
  • Descendants of the Enslaved and Enslavers – Working Together to Discover Family by Cheri Hudson Passey and Sharon Batiste Gillins
  • mtDNA and YDNA in 2022 by Diahan Southard
  • Delivering the Mail: Records of the United States Post Office by Michael L. Strauss, AG
  • What’s Next When You Are Told Those Records Were “Burnt up” by J. Mark Lowe, FUGA
  • An introduction to Filae: the largest source of French archives by Emmanuel Condamine
  • Understanding and Using Scottish Kirk Session Records by Paul Milner, FUGA, MDiv
  • Michigan: An Upper Midwest Researchers Dream by Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS (September 14, 8 p.m. EDT; that’s 7 p.m. CDT for me.)
  • Germany to Pennsylvania: 18th Century Odyssey by James M. Beidler
  • Using Google Books to Find the Law by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
  • The Pros and Cons of Collaboration on Geni.com by E. Randol Schoenberg
  • Essential Immigration Records for Researching Your Mexican Ancestors by Colleen Robledo Greene, MLIS
  • Abstracting Documents: An Essential Skill for All Genealogists by Julie Miller, CG, CGL
  • Ransomware and your computer by Andy Klein
  • Strategies to Jumpstart Your Research by Teri E. Flack
  • A Deep Dive into the Map Collections of the Library of Congress by Rick Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA
  • Documenting Cemeteries with BillionGraves by Cathy Wallace
  • Mastering Digital Filing for Genealogists by Cyndi Ingle
  • Sweden Research with Online Records at MyHeritage and Beyond by Mike Mansfield
  • Start with You: Writing About Yourself by Brenda Hudson, Ph.D.
  • The Top Ten DNA Do’s and Don’ts! by Michelle Leonard
  • Separate Even in Death – Black Funerals and Cemeteries by Janice Lovelace, PhD
  • Indirect Evidence, A Case Study: The Parents of Elizabeth Wingate in Maryland (1795–1860) by Rebecca Koford, CG, CGL
  • 50 Mostly “Hot off the Press” Net Sites You Want to Check Out! By Diane L. Richard

For the details, to sign up for the free September offerings, and to access all those done previously:

Legacy Family Tree Webinars (this is my affiliate link to sign up for a webinars membership.) Members have full access to 1,830 webinars and 6,793 syllabus (handout) pages. Initial access to most webinars is free but to review them or to see the syllabus for each, you do need to be a member.

MyHeritage Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage says “Take your genealogy skills to the next level with this online genealogy conference, held each Friday in September: 31 live and pre-recorded webinars in all.”

Virtual US National Archives Talk: Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them

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The U.S. National Archives has virtual and in-person presentations year-round. One of the upcoming ones is The U.S. (Virtual Only) Book Talk – Democracy’s Data: Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them, Thursday, September 8, at 1 p.m. ET
Register to attend online; watch on the National Archives YouTube Channel
Data historian Dan Bouk examines the U.S. Census to uncover the meaning behind the numbers. He introduces us to those hired as door to door census takers and takes us to the Census Bureau, where civil servants work to divide and conquer the nation’s data. Democracy’s Data offers a new perspective on the relationship between representation, identity, and governance today. Joining the author in conversation will be author Maud Newton. See the National Archives 1950 Census resources. Census programming is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of Denise Gwyn Ferguson.

 

 

 

 

Genealogists & historians, the NEH gives 31.5m in grants for research, preservation, and education.

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I admit to being a history and preservation nerd. Add education to that and we have a need that is being supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). $31.5 million in grants to support these in the latest round of NEH grants. While huge, it’s still a drop in the bucket for what is needed to preserve history, create finding aids, digitize newspapers, encourage the written word, educate children and adults, tell the story of indigenous people, and show people what is available in our historical, archival, and educational institutions. NEH also provided grants in Puerto Rico, Canada, and England. History is everywhere. I skimmed through the list of grants that were awarded by NEH and it was amazing to see all the projects.

A couple excerpts from today’s NEH press release:

“WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 16, 2022) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $31.5 million in grants for 226 humanities projects across the country.  . .

This round of funding also marks the addition of the 50th U.S. state to the National Digital Newspaper Program. Dartmouth College received NEH funding to serve as the hub of the New Hampshire Digital Newspaper Program, expanding the scope of the Chronicling America online database of historical American newspapers published between 1690 and 1963. Additional funding awarded in this round will support ongoing newspaper digitization work in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.”

 

Click on the links in the above paragraphs to read the full press release and to see that lengthy list of projects. I’m disappointed to see only one in Minnesota and none for Wisconsin. The projects for and with institutions in other areas are amazing. 

 

 

Navigating Cyndi’s List. Helpful for genealogists and beyond!

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I am catching up on some of my reading this weekend. A few webinars are on my list, too. Cari Taplin’s blog was my first to tackle. She has a couple of posts about https://www.cyndislist.com/ and discusses the usefulness, ways to understand it, and about reporting broken links. Even though Cyndi checks and adds a lot of links each day, she may not know about a broken link you find. Why do websites change their URL and not provide a redirect!!! 

To read Cari’s last two blog posts on CyndisList, https://genealogypants.com/pantspockets/.