From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Apr 7 20:01:24 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3821Ojb015779; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:01:24 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3821Mvo003753 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:01:22 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k37NTPFI016204 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 19:29:25 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k37NTP8N016203 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 19:29:25 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k37JXDFI015751 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:33:14 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k37M507Y010710 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:05:00 -0600 X-Envelope-From: Kith-n-Kin@cox.net Fri Apr 7 16:05:00 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k37M50jb010701 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:05:00 -0600 Received: from fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (fed1rmmtao08.cox.net [68.230.241.31]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k37M4x0Y019725 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 16:04:59 -0600 Received: from TOWER ([68.0.155.47]) by fed1rmmtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060407220454.MJWV26964.fed1rmmtao08.cox.net@TOWER>; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 18:04:54 -0400 From: "Kith-n-Kin" To: , Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Don't forget MINNESOTA records!! Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:04:55 -0700 Message-ID: <01ae01c65a8f$50dbc0c0$6601a8c0@TOWER> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 In-Reply-To: <2e8.53b0874.3167e336@aol.com> Importance: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by admin.rootsweb.com id k37M50jb010701 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Gretchen and All |However, of those of you who might be new to ROOTS or have |forgotten about |them, the Minnesota Historical Society has great Birth and |Death records |online also. Their Search Engine is one of the best I have seen. | |They will even search for obits for you. Last I checked the |were $12 for a |Minnesota resident and $15 for everyone else. I asked for one |about a year ago |and they were very fast and efficient PLUS they sent me three |articles about |the person I was interested in. Thought that they went above |and beyond in |finding the three. It is possible that they had a "vertical file" on folks. I ran into this quite by accident when I had a list of obits to find in the Honolulu papers. Being from out of town, I had used the Library of Hawaii website as much as possible, then went to the "newspaper archives" in the basement, used the index books, searched the microfilm, got the obits. All was fine. On the way out, I happened to stop by the vertical files (file cabinets with files and misc. ephemera in them) to see what was there. Of course, several of the people were represented, with both the obituary and whatever other news articles and other information they had. Jackpot! Would have saved much time, if I had gone there first! Now, I know. Whether in a historical society, library, or ??? Always check to see if there are vertical files on the town citizens. OH, and leave behind a brief note and your address/phone number. You never know when another cousin will happen by! Pat (in Tucson)