I am putting together a book for my husband relating to his family history. His mother and father are both gone as are his grandparents, which limit the...
Go to the library - ask the reference librarian to help you with the microfilm reader. If you have death dates, you can find obituaries from any Nobles County...
Hi Dana, I would recommend you contact the libraries where your relatives lived. My Roll relatives lived in Adrian and Ellsworth in Nobles County. Adrian did...
The Minnesota History center in St. Paul has all the newspapers published in
Minnesota and they are on microfilm and can be copied. If you know dates of
death...
Hi Dana, If you have the exact dates of death and know where they died you can go to your local library and do an inter-library loan for the newspapers on...
To save you time (and money in the long term) I personally recommend getting a membership to Ancestry.com. It provides access to many public records,...
Just a side note about Ancestry.com. I do have the subscription, and there isn't much on there for the newspaper, same goes for Green Bay, WI. It will bring...
Dear Dana, There is a wonderful new website - www.newspaperarchive.com - they offer a free 7-day trial period. I found it so useful that I took a subscription...
I would sift through the microfilms that the first reader mentioned. Keep in mind many of these small town newspapers had sections of "neighborhood" news. So...
There is also another newspaper site: GenealogyBank It costs about $20/month (I think) but I think the subscription length is only a month. So you can end it...
I would like to obtain an obituary for Edward Hans Olson, son of James Henry & Sara (Smith) Olson. He was born in Jackson Co. MN & lived most of his life in...
I recieved the obit. today. Thanks so much. I was wondering if you look up Edwards Olson's marriage that might give me his mothers maiden name. Thanks so...
Hi there. I just signed up with this group. I was hoping to get some suggestions on the types of resources I can check for my family tree research. I live in...
Hi meffa5 - I just did a quick search of the Gen. Soc. master database, it is an index for a large number of resources in Nobles County. I only found one hit...
We are developing a list of structures in Worthington that could be designated "Heritage Preservation Sites" kind of like the National Register of Historic...
Ray - I moved this discussion on to the Nobles County Yahoo Groups website in hope that others will contribute to the list. I hope that is OK with you. Your...
Ray, Thanks so much for the kind words! As for your page load problem, are you using Safari? If so, I found a web site where someone explained a ... "Clear...
Historic Preservation Tax Credit Acoalition of cities, historical groups, and property developers is activelypromoting proposed legislation that would allow a...
Raymond - Group - I have uploaded some photos to the NoblesCountyMN Yahoo Web Site that we have at the historical society. We don't know who or what these ...
The Nobles County Historical Society is in the process of cataloging their entire collection. In the past the historical society has never had a comprehensive...
... get is the ... Worthington ... Thanks for the transcription effort. I have found this useful in searching for references to Bathhouses ("bath") and Lake...
I just recieved a letter from my Mom saying that my ggggrandfather was killed in a prairie fire in Seward township, Nobles, Minnesota. He was living with his...
I have uploaded a photo the group's website call "Omaha Bridge", (link below). This photo is from the historical societies collection that we are cataloging....
I just joined the group. I am working on a friend's family. One of her branches was in Nobles County, having moved there about 115 years ago. They were...
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