Vital records

July 1, 2024. Original birth certificates accessible for most Minnesota adoptees.

Paula Stuart-Warren  Adoption, Minnesota, Vital records  ,  1 Comment

The media has been reporting about the change in Minnesota about adoptees being able to obtain their original birth certificate (OBC) starting in July of 2024. I wanted a few more details and some official words from the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) before I started writing about it. The MDH website page about the […]

Hubbard County, Minnesota records preservation

Paula Stuart-Warren  Uncategorized  ,  Leave a comment

Records preservation and access is of vital importance to family historians. On Saturday, 21 September, The Park Rapids Express carried an article about an important transfer of township level records to the proper storage facilities at the Minnesota State Archives. It also told of efforts to discover more township records from the county. The Hubbard […]