Kittson County, Minnesota
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Hello:
Kittson County has been rejuvenated and is available for adoption,
If you have a local connection to Kittson County and web design skils [or wish to learn],
please consider joining the MNGenWeb as a County Coordinator
Please contact the State Coordinator: Tim Stowell for more information.


Table of Contents
History ~ Biographies ~ Search ~ Maps ~ Queries ~ Lookups ~ What's New
Vital Records ~ Obituaries ~ Family Search: Historical Images
Cemeteries ~ Military ~ Native American Resources ~ Odds & Ends


Cemeteries ~ Military ~ Native American Resources ~ Odds & Ends

Cemeteries

 "People Legacy" ~ Minnesota Gravestones ~ Find~A~Grave

News Article: Kittson County Cemeteries
Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery : Marker survey sheets, ca. 1853-1939 -
Film #1392828 - Item 1 - This is a WPA Project #7886, 159 Images, November 1939 Image 4 - 163.

Cemetery Topo Maps "AnyPlace America" - Kittson County

The nice folks over at Genealogy Trails have Cemeteries listed for Kittson County - Thank You!


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 Societya> ~ 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 ~ SSource: 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: Kittson County, 1916-1918
Please use this link: FS Collection


Minnesota, World War I Records, 1918-1941 [Naturalization]

Family Search: Wiki & National Archives:
Cemetery, Burial & Casualty Records

The nice folks over at Genealogy Trails have a Military Section... Thank You!

FS has Prison Burial Records and Burials in National Cemeteries in their Catalog

Homes for Disabled Veterans:a> 1866-1938: Searchable Database on FS]
"Soldiers of the Great War" [MN]
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


Odds & Ends

>>>What's New<<<
Book Assortment: Crime, Biography, Medical
There are  download links for Archive.org & Google E Book Items
"What's New"

Medical Directories:
"Medical and Surgical Directory
of The United States"
R L Polk & Co, Publishers,
1886
[MN Files]

"Medical and Surgical Register
of The United States"
R L Polk, Publishers,
Detroit, Philadelphia, Chicago
1890
[MN Files]
Military Information is also included in these Books.
Such As...
Officers Of the Medical Department of the United States Army And Hospital Stewards.
Medical Corps of the United States Navy
Medical Officers Of the U. S. Marine Hospital Service.
Including Acting Assistant Surgeons And Hospital Stewards.


Note: There are more of these Directories for the following years: Scroll [Archive.org Site]
Years: 1890, 1893, 1896, 1898,1900, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1912, 1917



The National Archives has a really nice set of digitized records that can be freely viewed and downloaded
Please use this link for access.





"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

"
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]

>>>New<<<
A new Archive Service: Archive-It
Here is a new way to search MN Digital Newspapers
Please use this Link

Swedish  and Icelandic Genealogy

Family Histories: Books
John and Anna Blid in Kittson County, Minnesota
John & Hilma Poole Family History

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 "Collections"
There is a wealth of Family and Historical information contained on the FamilySearch WebSite.
It can be overwhelming to figure out where to start.
So, here are concentrated categories of databases


Cemeteries, Etc [Burial, Cemeteries, Coroner, Funeral Homes, Graves]ves]
Church Records [ Baptism's, Catholic Church, Christenings, Church [General]]
Legal Documents and Resources [Court, Estate, Probate Records]
Migration - Naturalization - Travel [ Border Crossings, Migration, Naturalization, Passenger Lists, Passports]
Military [Bounty [Land], Military [Misc], Pensions, Soldiers, Veteran's, War[s]]
Odds and Ends [Applications, Homestead, Membership, Native Americans, Parish [Location & Church], Pioneers, Prison, Voting, Obituaries, Veteran & Soldier's Homes, Children's Home]
Vital Records [Birth, Marriage, Divorce, Death, Mortality Records]


Minnesota Historical Society: Vital Records



"The Fine Print"
Kittson County Coordinator:
State Coordinator: Tim Stowell
Assistant State Coordinator: Karen De Groote

For information about adopting a Minnesota County, Please Contact Tim

If you have an idea or comment please let us know.
Information contained on all of the pages within the Kittson County portion of the MNGenWeb Project
may be used for personal genealogical and historical purposes.

Please be considerate of copyright information and give credit where credit is due.
Donated data will remain with the County in the event of the resignation of the County Coordinator.
Any person donating information in the future retains the right to have it returned to them upon request

Site Updated: 29 July 2024

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