The Minnesota Genealogical Society’s Mid-Month Education News for December 2024 lists classes and webinars as it usually does. It also lists the upcoming hours change for the Hoffman Library in 2025. Then I read about a possible new group that will meet at the Minnesota Genealogy Center. Forest Finns! Of course, I had to learn […]
I am always thrilled when historical organizations post lists of awards and grants to organizations. A few of the grants in Minnesota are listed after this press release excerpt. Shelving for collections, ADA access, preservation of historical buildings, histories, and other items are on the recipients list. Many more can be viewed at https://www.mnhs.org/media/news/legacy-amendment-large-grants-fy25 City […]
“WORTHINGTON, Minn. (AP) — Immigration from around the world has transformed Worthington, bringing new businesses to emptying downtown storefronts as well as new worship and recreational spaces to this town of 14,000 residents in the southwestern Minnesota farmland.” In my beautiful home state of Minnesota where I still reside.
A recent newsletter from the University of Minnesota reminded me to look at other parts of the Minnesota Digital Library. The MDL is best described directly from its website. MDL “supports discovery and education through access to unique digital collections shared by cultural heritage organizations from across the state of Minnesota. Our contributors include libraries, […]
The updates to digitized newspapers for Minnesota keeps adding to my research task list! I already found one new item about my late father-in-law. MN Digital Newspaper Hub – May 2024 content updateA content update to the Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub today added 10,025 new issues and 158,877 new newspaper pages. New publicly available titles […]
Big news for Minnesota and Saint Paul researchers. Finally, some additional years of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and Saint Paul Dispatch online. In a future post I will add more on the changing titles of Saint Paul newspapers but for now here’s this recent update from GenealogyBank. Update: check under Minnesota and then Saint […]
This afternoon, I was researching a church here in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I had not heard of it before. The pastor was the officiant at my Stuart grandparents’ wedding. Olga Theodora Carlsen married Earl James Stuart on 21 June 1916. The wedding did not take place in the church, but rather in the bride’s home. […]
From the Hennepin County Library Special Collections newsletter: March/April 2024Check out what’s new and noteworthy this spring in Special Collections.New in the Digital CollectionsMore Hennepin County City DirectoriesThe online city directory collection is growing! Last month we added three more years of Minneapolis directories, which now cover nearly 100 years (1859-1955). We also added Lake Minnetonka […]
I’ve written about Buckman before and I try to drive through the town about once a year. Several summers during my childhood were spent in Buckman. My maternal Aunt Jeannie took me there before she remarried to spend a few days with her late husband’s grandparents. As a city girl, it was a shock when […]
Another example has surfaced to show why we need to check again for family information we may have looked for 6 months or five years ago. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to learn that an 1880s high school record book for a family member’s high school had been discovered? If you have family who attended high […]