Minnesota Historical Society
Time to start discussing the great research facilities in the Midwestern states!
The Minnesota Historical Society is housed in a beautiful building on Kellogg Avenue right off of Interstate 94 in St. Paul. Parking is readily accessible. There are two main research rooms- one housing research books and tables for research while you await requests from the stacks and the other room across the hall has the microfilm readers, reader-printers and well-labeled microfilm drawers, along with relevant printed indexes. Both rooms have computers for online index and catalogue searching.
Key holdings are birth and death records with great online indexes, microfilmed censuses for a variety of Midwestern states, microfilmed newspapers for the entire state, city directories onsite and a large collection of various indexes and genealogical helps. In researching the Minnesota branch of my Koenig relatives, I also found city and county histories, including maps and photographs, that were helpful.
Staff is helpful and patient and genealogy volunteers man a table for some hours in the reading room each week. The "Family History Link" webpage is at: http://www.mnhs.org/genealogy/index.htm
The Minnesota Historical Society is housed in a beautiful building on Kellogg Avenue right off of Interstate 94 in St. Paul. Parking is readily accessible. There are two main research rooms- one housing research books and tables for research while you await requests from the stacks and the other room across the hall has the microfilm readers, reader-printers and well-labeled microfilm drawers, along with relevant printed indexes. Both rooms have computers for online index and catalogue searching.
Key holdings are birth and death records with great online indexes, microfilmed censuses for a variety of Midwestern states, microfilmed newspapers for the entire state, city directories onsite and a large collection of various indexes and genealogical helps. In researching the Minnesota branch of my Koenig relatives, I also found city and county histories, including maps and photographs, that were helpful.
Staff is helpful and patient and genealogy volunteers man a table for some hours in the reading room each week. The "Family History Link" webpage is at: http://www.mnhs.org/genealogy/index.htm
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