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I don\u2019t do much research for Minnesota, although I do have some very distant cousins who have lived there at one time or another. Instead of working on those distant families, I wanted to see what types of online collections were available. For those with Minneapolis ties, you\u2019re in luck.<\/p>\n
The Hennepin County Library<\/a> has a wonderful digital collection (scroll to the bottom and look in the right-hand menu for Digital Resources). Of course, my favorite, is old photos. The Minneapolis Photo Collection<\/a> has a variety of photos going back to the 1840s, although they do not indicate how many are currently digitized. A search on the keyword \u201cchurch\u201d returned 586 photos, so I\u2019d say the collection is pretty substantial.<\/p>\n They also have Minneapolis city directories<\/a> digitized for the years 1859 to 1917. That\u2019s right, completely digitized and available for free. Oh, and did I mention they are searchable?<\/p>\n Additionally, they have digitized various Minneapolis high school yearbooks<\/a> during the period between 1890 and 1922. These are also free and searchable.<\/p>\n They even have an oral history collection, which has some really neat interviews.<\/p>\n If you have family from Minneapolis, I highly recommend you check out the Hennepin County Library\u2019s digital collection. Maybe you\u2019ll stumble across a high school photo of your great-grandfather or a picture of the church where your great-aunt and uncle married.<\/p>\n Genealogy By the States<\/a><\/em> is a theme created by Jim Sanders over at the <\/em>Hidden Genealogy Nuggets<\/a><\/em> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don\u2019t do much research for Minnesota, although I do have some very distant cousins who have lived there at one time or another. Instead of working on those distant families, I wanted to see what types of online collections were available. For those with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25,300],"tags":[351],"class_list":["post-4675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genblog","category-resources-genblog","tag-genealogy-by-the-states","cat-25-id","cat-300-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-1dp","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4692,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4675\/revisions\/4692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"HCLibraryPhoto\"](\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/Genealogy-By-the-States--Week-32--Minnes_13F77\/HCLibraryPhoto.jpg\" "\\"HCLibraryPhoto\\"")
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