Polk County, Minnesota USGenWeb Project

Please welcome Shirley Dorgan as the coordinator
of Polk County as of July 21, 2001

Researchers: Please see note * at bottom of page!

just type in what you are looking for, placename, surname etc., - if it is on this site the search engine will show you where it is!

USGenWeb HISTORY	How and when the USGenWeb Project Started
BIOGRAPHIES View biographies surnames histories and obituaries Post biographies surnames or histories and obituaries Minnesota Biographies Project - Fontaine Family History* - submitted Feb 2007*	add surnames, biographies, histories, obituaries
BOOKS with LOOKUPS - Lookup volunteers listed POLK COUNTY RESOURCE BOOKS - lookup volunteers listed Red River Valley Gen Society CEMETERY BOOKS - VOLUME 9 complete index now online VOLUME 10 - COMING SOON *VOLUME 11 - COMING SOON* *VOLUME 12 - COMING SOON* *EUCLID HISTORICAL PAMPHLET 1879-1979* *WINGER HISTORICAL PAMPHLET1904-1954*	Book recommendations about Polk County. (Many with lookup volunteers) Including Cemetery Books, War Records, Histories, Atlases and School Year books. More Books with lookup volunteers needed
CEMETERIES OF POLK COUNTY Cemeteries Sorted Alphabetically Cemeteries Sorted by Township Lakeside Cemetery - update Nov 2006	Cemeteries in Polk County - contact me if you find errors or want to add any new transcriptions. We are always looking for new cemetery listings - if you have partial or complete listings, or could take the time to walk through some of the cemeteries in Polk County, please send them to me and I will post them. See Rural Church Database Website by Steph - pictures and info about many of the churches in Polk Co and other MN Counties.
CENSUS RECORDS	1860 Polk County US Federal Census - index - offsite 1890 Veterans Schedule Districts- Polk County Federal Census offsite 1895 State Census, Euclid Township, Polk Co., MN 1900 State Census, Euclid Township, Polk Co., MN 1905 State Census, Euclid Village, Polk Co., MN
*CHURCHES* Polk County, including Grand Forks, ND	A listing of the churches in Polk County, Minnesota, some with contact information and pictures. Please let me know if you find any more and I will post them. See Rural Church Database Website by Steph - pictures and info about many of the churches in Polk Co and other MN Counties.
CITIES AND TOWNSHIPS Fosston City - 1906 high school program and menu	Every city and township listed by township and range number and nearest post office
CITY DIRECTORIES	Link to site with City Directories of the USA - MN
HISTORY of POLK COUNTY	A short overview of the history of Polk County, MN
HISTORIES of Polk Co. MN View histories, biographies, surnames, obituaries and queries Post histories biographies, surnames and obituaries and queries	Norman Nelson - History and autobiography Crookston, Polk Co., MN - submitted Fall 2006
HISTORICAL SOCIETIES and Museums in Polk Co. *Minnesota Historical Society - searchable database of deaths 1908-1996**	Red River Valley Genealogical Society - cemetery indexes here Crookston Museum Euclid Historical Society Polk County Historical Society Polk County Historical Society PO Box 214 Crookston, MN 56716-0214 Minnkota Genealogical Society - Grand Forks, ND & East Grand Forks, MN *Minnesota Historical Society - searchable database of deaths 1908-1996 Minnesota Genealogical Society** -5768 Olson Memorial Highway Golden Valley MN 55422 (763) 595-9347
LIBRARIES	Lake Agassiz Regional Library - The Website for the McIntosh, Crookston, Climax, Fosston, and Fertile Public Libraries. The Crookston Public Library Branch of the Lake Agassiz Regional Library System". They have microfilmed copies of the Crookston Daily Times beginning in Nov 1891. Many of the smaller communities submitted news to the Times. They also have the Polk County newspaper for some years, beginning in 1877. The newspapers are indexed, so the library can do a search or you may wish to do it yourself if you visit the library located at: 110 North Ash Street; Crookston, MN 56716 Phone: (218)281-4522 Fax: (218)281-4523 Toll Free Telephone Reference: 1-800-247-0449 E-mail: Crookston@northernlights.lib.mn.us
LINKS to MN information	Some helpful links - genealogy and others.* See Rural Church Database Website by Steph - pictures and info about many of the churches in Polk Co and other MN Counties.
MAILING LIST - Polk County MN	To subscribe to the Polk County Mailing List send e-mail message to: MNPOLK-L-request@rootsweb.com with subject line blank no signature line and the only word in the body: subscribe . For digest version MNPOLK-D-request@rootsweb.com.
MAPS of POLK COUNTY	Map of Polk County Euclid Plat Book Map 1905 Township Map of Polk Co Map of Gully, Trail, Fosston area cemeteries
*NEWSPAPERS* NEWSPAPERS IN MN - MN Historical Society link page - type in Polk County NEWSPAPER ARTICLES - Crookston Times 1909 forward (partial) *NEWSPAPERS IN CROOKSTON AREA*	MN Newspaper lookups for a fee - contact Mary Crookston Times Articles - some obits and biographies of residents of MN Lake Agassiz Regional Library Crookston Daily Times beginning in Nov. 1891. Many of the smaller communities submitted news to the Times. We also, have the Polk County newspaper for some years, beginning in 1877, so that might be another source. The newspapers are indexed, so we can do a search or you may wish to do so yourself at the library.
OBITUARIES - Surnames page will show if there is an obituary posted Post Obituaries Surnames Biographies and Queries View Surnames Obituaries Biographies and Queries Norwegian Obituaries of Norwegian Immigrants from MN	Polk Co., MN obituaries only
PHOTOS	Unidentified Photos - can you help identify these people? See Rural Church Database Website by Steph - pictures and info about many of the churches in Polk Co and other MN Counties.
RESEARCHERS IN POLK COUNTY	Polk Co. Resident please volunteer to do an occasional lookup for others researching MN information.
*REUNIONS -* UPCOMING GENEALOGICAL EVENTS Let me know of your upcoming reunions and events and I will post it here	Anton Haugen, Haugen and Paul Paulson Reunion - July 7, 2007 - click for more details Vigness Reunion July 8, 2007 - click for more details
SCHOOLS - Student listings if anyone has information about old schools in MN, please contact me and we can add the information.	East Grand Forks High School Graduates - Central and Sacred Heart 1920-1967 Fosston High School Graduates 1904-1940 Fertile - Beltrami Public Schools 1887-1987 All School Reunion - link to index
*SURNAME QUERIES - Surname Registry* Post Surnames Obituaries Biographies and Queries View Surnames Obituaries Biographies and Queries	add biographies, surnames and queries about surnames to this site - Polk Co. MN Surnames only
VITAL RECORDS - POLK COUNTY- or MINNESOTA	contact information
VOLUNTEER YOUR TIME AND TALENT WALL OF HONOUR	A few projects that could use your help in Polk County

*Researchers unfamiliar with western Polk County, especially the East Grand Forks area, should be aware of important facts.

just type in what you are looking for, placename, surname etc., - if it is on this site the search engine will show you where it is!

* "Links to sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the sites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project or its members. Neither the USGenWeb Project nor its members are responsible for the contents of any "third party" site which you may access from a link on this page."

The USGenWeb Project's Official Copyright Policy

The USGenWeb Project will not tolerate any copyright violations. Lookup requests from copyrighted books should be limited to one name, or perhaps two if it is a married couple. Information given should be minimal, for example:

If it is a cemetery lookup, the information should be the name of the cemetery and the dates on the headstone.

If someone asks for "everybody with X surname" or an entire family group, or for hardcopies to be mailed, please advise that The USGenWeb Project volunteers have been asked not to comply with such requests.

Lookups can extend to searching the copyrighted material to determine if the material would be helpful to the requester in their research. Should the copyrighted material prove useful, the volunteer can provide the author's address and ordering information.

Cemetery listings and pictures may be posted to the site if the cemetery was walked and transcribed by the submitter. The submitters name, address and date obtained will be made available to the County Coordinator BEFORE it is posted.

The USGenWeb Project will endeavour to get a WRITTEN statement from each copyright holder which stipulates which books may be used for lookups.

For questions or comments about this web page or site,
please contact Shirley Dorgan, Polk County MN Coordinator