Sandy Louden has offered to get copies of original MN death certificates and obituaries at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. The death Certificate indexes are available for the years 1908-1966 online at: http://www.mnhs.org/index.html  If a death certificate is found, she will also look up an obituary for the individual in the newspapers for up to 7 days after the date of death in large newspapers, and for one month in small town papers. She will also check Death Cards from 1900 to 1907 which are searchable if you have the full name, complete date of death, city/town and county of death. No guarantees are made as they are not in real good order.

Please follow these guidelines when requesting Death Certificates:

1. Limit your requests to 3 Individuals
2. Please furnish the full name, the Cert ID # shown on the death index, date of death, and the county.

If just an obituary is needed, please furnish full name, date of death, county and city/town of death and/or residence plus any other information; i.e. spouse's name, children's names, parents/sibling's names. Fees: $3.00 per individual This will cover the cost of the copies and help defray parking costs for Sandy. Parking is $6.50 per day at the History Center, and we appreciate her valuable time as well. Please e-mail Sandy at permdogs@comcast.net

"MINNESOTA LOOKUPS" MUST be in the subject line of the e-mail or it may be deleted.

PLEASE BE PATIENT when waiting for your copies of death records and obituaries.