Minnestota History Scrapbook Criteria
Adoption records contain information on the individual, birth parents and adoptive parents. The records are arranged by civil case file number within the court records. Adoption records are closed for 100 years from the date of adoption. A court order from the judge of the district court is required to view adoption records that are less than 100 years old.
ALIEN REGISTRATION RECORDS A February 1918 listing of all non-U.S. citizens in Minnesota, conducted by order of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. The two-page form includes information about a person's place and date of birth, port of entry and date of arrival in the United States, occupation, names and ages of children, financial situation, and male relatives taking part in World War I. The collection has been indexed, and both the index and the forms are on microfilm
Access: State Archives Microfilm (SAM 169 and SAM 169-I)
AMERICAN INDIANS: RESOURCES The Minnesota Historical Society collections are particularly rich in material about the two major Minnesota tribes--the Dakota (or Sioux) and the Ojibwa (or Chippewa). Collections include microfilms of United State Bureau of Indian Affairs records, as well as allotment papers, Indian rolls, censuses, land records, subject files, treaty papers, curricula, correspondence, reports, legal materials, newspaper clippings, railroad records, and other papers from American Indians, government officials, lawyers, missionaries, clergy, and others.
Consult the Visual Resources Database for holdings of thousands of photographs of Minnesota Indian individuals, groups, and activities.
Significant publications include items about wars, folklore, religion, social customs, biography, and government relations and treaties, as well as such multi-volume works as United States Indian Office, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1839-1943), and United States Department of the Interior, Biographical and Historical Index of American Indians
ALIEN REGISTRATION RECORDS A February 1918 listing of all non-U.S. citizens in Minnesota, conducted by order of the Minnesota Commission of Public Safety. The two-page form includes information about a person's place and date of birth, port of entry and date of arrival in the United States, occupation, names and ages of children, financial situation, and male relatives taking part in World War I. The collection has been indexed, and both the index and the forms are on microfilm
Access: State Archives Microfilm (SAM 169 and SAM 169-I)
AMERICAN INDIANS: RESOURCES The Minnesota Historical Society collections are particularly rich in material about the two major Minnesota tribes--the Dakota (or Sioux) and the Ojibwa (or Chippewa). Collections include microfilms of United State Bureau of Indian Affairs records, as well as allotment papers, Indian rolls, censuses, land records, subject files, treaty papers, curricula, correspondence, reports, legal materials, newspaper clippings, railroad records, and other papers from American Indians, government officials, lawyers, missionaries, clergy, and others.
Consult the Visual Resources Database for holdings of thousands of photographs of Minnesota Indian individuals, groups, and activities.
Significant publications include items about wars, folklore, religion, social customs, biography, and government relations and treaties, as well as such multi-volume works as United States Indian Office, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (1839-1943), and United States Department of the Interior, Biographical and Historical Index of American Indians