Things you can find in the Twin Cities area:
Birth records after 1900 and Death records after January 1908 for all of Minnesota
except Ramsey and Hennepin Counties are kept at the Minnesota Department of
Health, Section of Vital Statistics Registration, 717 Delaware Street SE,
Minneapolis, MN 55440. You will need the exact date (at least the month
and year) and the county. At the moment, non-certified birth records cost
$11.00, and both certified and non-certified death certificates are $11.00.
For more information, see http://www.health.state.mn.us/
Be sure to specify that you want a non-certified copy, for genealogical
purposes. You do not need to be a close relative or have anything
notarized in order to get a non-certified copy. Those restrictions are
only for certified copies. The state law specifically says that vital
records are public information.
You may be able to find some Swedish Lutheran church records at the
American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis. The Swedish Genealogical
Society of Minnesota , c/o MGS, 5768 Olson Memorial Hwy, Golden Valley, MN
55422-5014 is a good general resource for Swedes in Minnesota and especially
for tracing them back to Sweden.
The Bethel Seminary Archives in Arden Hills have some material from Swedish
and other Baptist churches in Minnesota that became part of the Baptist
General Conference. It does not contain much in the way of actual church
records, but some churches published anniversary books which might be of help
to the genealogical researcher.
The Luther-Northwestern Seminary Library contains some material on
Norwegian and German Lutheran synods in the Midwest. It does not contain
any church records, but some of the synodical yearbooks may be of help in
tracing ancestors who were ministers. There are some Norwegian records
at St. Olaf College, in Northfield, too. The St. Olaf Norwegian web site
is www.naha.stolaf.edu
The web site is: www.mngs.org
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