Things you can find out by mail, email, or phone:
Write to: Sibley County Recorder, Courthouse, Gaylord MN 55334.
Enclose a check or money order for at least $20.00 and a large self-addressed
stamped envelope. Any funds not used will be refunded to you. Be
specific what records you want, and whether you need a certified copy or
not. If you need them to do a search of an index, try to specify the
decade.
Do not send a copy of your family tree and ask them to fill in the
blanks. That is not their job. You will get far better results if
you ask for "all births between 1880 and 1890 to John and Jane Doe"
or "marriage of John Doe to Jane ??, about 1885" or "death of
John Doe, after 1900 and before 1909."
Records will cost $8.00 to $14.00 each. Non-certified copies can be
made of some books for $1.00 per page. For searches that take more than
just a few minutes, there is a very reasonable charge per hour for research.
In August of 2000, a new data privacy act went into effect in
Minnesota. You can avoid all of its restrictions by telling the person
at the records office that you want a non-certified copy for genealogical
purposes. You do NOT have to be a close relative or get anything
notarized.
Write to the Sibley County Recorder at the above address. You must
have the legal description of the land: township, section, and
quarter-section.
Write to: Sibley County Court Administrator, P.O. Box 867, Gaylord,
MN 55334, or phone 507-237-4053. Be specific about the name and date of
death. They can search the index for a decade, but cannot look for every
entry with a given surname. The cost is $5.00 per record. Enclose
a large self-addressed, stamped envelope.
The Sibley County Historical Society has been working on finding and
recording all the cemeteries in the county. Many of them have been read
and recorded. You can search our on-line database at: http://www.genealogy.history.sibley.mn.us/graves.php3
If you do not find what you are looking for there, the Sibley County
Historical Society may be able to help you.
The Sibley County Historical Society has information on the whereabouts of
many church records. More info soon.
The Minnesota Historical Society has books listing Minnesota soldiers in
the Civil, Indian, and Spanish-American Wars. With that information, you
can write for service records. You will need National Archives Form 80,
available from National Archives and Records Administration, 7th and
Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20408, or www.nara.gov/research/ordering/milordr.html.
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