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From: Mary Bakeman <>
Subject: Re: Ole Johnson, Nicollet County
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:49:38 -0600
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> From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
> Subject: Ole Johnson, Nicollet County
> To: <>
>
> My question is this: Is there a library in Nicollet County that
maintains a
> collection of obituaries? If not, what are the likely newspapers that we
> need to search for a possible obit?
>

The Minnesota Historical Society has microfilm of most newspapers in the
state and makes them available for interlibrary loan to local public
libraries. Their library catalog can be searched by county and by city.
The main website is <http://www.mnhs.org/>;, where you'll find free birth
and death cert indexes (and not the same as what Ancestry offers), as
well as a photo database, information on place names etc. A death
certificate typically has the place of burial on it.


> How about cemeteries? I couldn't find any on-line transcriptions for
> Nicollet County. If there are none, perhaps there are books and we could get
> a look-up from some kind soul.
>

If you don't find something at the Nicollet County Historical Society,
check with the MN Genealogical Society. They have compiled names of
contacts for cemeteries for many of them within the state.

Mary Bakeman

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