Hennepin County, Minnesota

Vital Records ~ Cemeteries ~ Obituaries B ~ M ~ D's: If you wish to look at other MN County Birth Records, Please Use This Link Minnesota Birth Files 1990-2020: Reclaim the Records The files are in csv format Uploaded in 2023 Please use this Link There is a very nice selection of records for specific Hennipen Locations  LDS Films "Rural Birth Records: 1870- 1915 and 1870 - 1913 [Film Chart Below] Minnesota District Count: Please use this link for the FS Catalog Please use this link for a chart which lists available films. More...Vitals State of Minnesota [Births] ~ Minnesota Department of Heath [Vitals, Indexes] Birth Records MN Official Marriage System Death Records and... Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980 [FS] Family Search: Vital Records, Wiki [ Minnesota] Family Search ~ "Collections" for Minnesota Neighboring States Iowa ~ North Dakota ~ South Dakota ~ Wisconsin Sign into your FS Account, then use the above links <<<???>>> Family Search ~ Michigan Marriages This link is for folks born in Minnesota and who married in Michigan: 1868 - 1925 [Available Info: Full Name, Place of Marriage, Residence, Place of Birth, Age, Occupation, Officiant, Witnesses] Sign into your FS Account, then use the above link. <<<???>>> There are a huge amount of FS Films for Marriages The First Set: Marriage License Indexes: Use this link for a Chart The Second Set: Marriage Application Books / Marriage Affidavit Books: Use this Link for a Chart The Third Set: Marriage License Books: Use this Link for a Chart <<<???>>> And... Marriages Recorded From ST. John The Baptist Church Dayton, Minnesota : June1864May 1921 The following marriages were transcribed by Ruth Charest, and submitted by Patty Guimont. The transcriptions are hand-written, some difficult to read, and may contain errors. Parents names were included in the original records, as well as witnesses and officiating clergy. Please use this Link: Searchable PDF Also... Family Search has a nice collection of Montana Marriages: 1865-1950 This Link contains records for folks born in Hennepin County and who were married in Montana "Rural Death Records" Use this Link for a Chart Time Frame: 1870 - 1913 - Please use this link for the FS Catalog Films Death Records: Minnesota Health Department <<<???>>> And... From the old Hennepin Files Independence, Minnesota Deaths: Recorded 1881 A partial list Submitted by Eugene Barnes As a matter of interest: Family Search has a nice collection of Vital Record Databases Minnesota Birth Index 1935 - 2002 ~ Minnesota Births / Christenings 1840 - 1980 Minnesota, Birth and Death Records, 1866-1916 ~ Minnesota County Birth Records 1863 - 1983 <<<???>>> Minnesota County Marriages 1860 - 1949 ~ Minnesota Marriage Index 1958 - 2001 Minnesota Marriages 1849 - 1950 ~ Minnesota Divorce Index 1970 - 1995 <<<???>>> Minnesota Death Index 1908 - 2002 ~ Minnesota Death Records 1866 - 1916 ~ Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001 Minnesota, County Deaths, 1850-2001 ~ Minnesota, Death Records and Certificates, 1900-1955 Minnesota Deaths / Burials 1835 - 1990 ~ Minnesota Will Records 1849 - 1985 ~ Minnesota, Church Records and... Vitals from Newspapers [From old Hennepin Files] Remember... Vital Data can be found in many types of Documents: Passenger Lists ~ Employment Records [US] ~ Naturalization Documents Here is a list of the US Passenger List 'Collections' on FS Newspaper Articles The Cemeteries of Hennepin County Cemeteries FS Film 868496 "A Descriptive List of 59 Old Minnesota Cemeteries and Names Of Those Buried Therein.[1936-1937]" Images # 670 - 755 Introduction, TOC According to the Introduction, these particular Cemeteries are no longer in use and have never been included in the "DAR Library".  The Introduction and information is here. Use this link for access to the Film Here is a link for the TOC and all of the Cemeteries that are in the Counties I host or 'sit' <<<???>>> There were several Cemetery Files in the old Hennepin Co., GW Files. St's Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery~ Congregational Church Cemetery Maple Hill [Excerp from MN Genealogical Magazine] Maple Hill Cemetery Veteran Burials, Information and News Articles [With Thanks to Shawne] <<<???>>> Minnesota, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, Layman Cemetery Burial Records, 1860 - 1926 Years: 1859 - 1861, 1869 - 1871, 1879 - 1881,1889 - 1891, 1899 - 1901, 1909 - 1911, 1919 - 1921 Please Use This Link: This is an index that I created from the above FS Database Explanation: There are thousands of entries for this Cemetery, the above linked Index is for the Census Years with 1 year before and after. The index includes only the Name and either the Year of Death or Burial. The files are on Family Search and contain much more information. Link to the Search Function Finally... The rest of the Cemeteries for Hennepin County can be found on Find~A~Grave. Family Search has a Search Function for F~A~G There are 3 Cemeteries listed on Interment.net Obituaries Obituary Indexes from the Legacy Collection of Jose Rivera Nieves  Here is the Index for Hennepin County Here is the Index for all of Minnesota Here is the Index for the United States Here is an index for Countries of the World Note: Many of the Obituaries might be found using Heritage Hub Digital Newspaper Collection which is available in many local Public Libraries. Check your local Library under 'Resources' - Access requires a Library Card Family Search: All Obituary Databases: With Clickable Links Obituaries [Heritage Hub, etc] for the other MN Counties I host: Blue Earth ~ Brown ~ Faribault ~ Freeborn ~ Steele ~ St Louis ~ Watonwan California, Oakland, Alameda Co.,  Newspaper Record Collection, 1985-2011 The images are available on Family Search,  Sign in for access. Here is a set of resources for Oakland, Alameda Co., CA Obituaries: American Historical Society German's from Russia, 1899-2012 [FS Searchable database with Newspaper Clippings] Here is the WebSite for the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia September 2024 Note: I will not be creating any more Obit Indexes: I have had no queries for them for a couple of years. But, that said, I will still do lookups on Heritage Hub Contact: Martha Obituaries: 1986 - December 2023 These are from HeritageHub which includes NewsBank. Please use this link for the updated index. Check in with your Library Card and look for "Heritage Hub" which is a digital database for newspapers. Below is the list of Hennepin County Newspapers which were accessed. Tribune: Web Edition Articles (Minneapolis, MN) Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities (Minneapolis, MN) St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) Crow River News (Hennepin-Wright County, MN) and... This is a really cool little set of Booklets "Tidbits from the Big Piney Examiner of Sublette Co., WY" 1912 - 2006 Some Years Missing Compiler: Anna Lee Woffinden There are Indexes for each Booklet, The files are here in the FS Catalog The Booklets are full of Obituaries, Death / Funeral Notices and Accidents, and the odd news article about local Pioneers Finally, Remember that Obituaries can be found in the many free Digital Newspapers. Below is a list of Free Online Digital Newspapers Minnesota Historical Society - General Resources Minnesota Historical Society: Digital Newspapers "Ancestor Hunt" All sorts of Free Databases Chronicling America ~ Google News Archives Century Past ~ Illinois Digital Collection Carnegie Mellon Library: Digital Collections Historical Newspapers: Indexed by State [Some Free]