by the MHS Staff
Paperback
This book is a tool for all genealogists, beginning and experienced, who are researching family, local, or state history. The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) has one of the richest collections in the nation, but such vast resources can be overwhelming. Compiled by the experienced MHS staff, this book is a great guide to the Society’s myriad holdings.
New and revised, this book features a lengthy, annotated list of resources related to biography, census, naturalization; cemeteries, schools, religious or business affiliations; legal, military, and veterans’ records; death records/index (1908-96); photos, personal papers, oral histories, ethnic resources; newspapers, directories, passenger ship lists; and maps, atlases, etc.
Also, general researchers will find it a source of information about new social histories: studies of gender, families, ethnic groups, urban and rural pasts, labor, material culture, and everyday life. In other words, this would be an excellent gift for both the researcher or genealogist in your family.
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by the MHS Staff
Paperback
This book is a tool for all genealogists, beginning and experienced, who are researching family, local, or state history. The Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) has one of the richest collections in the nation, but such vast resources can be overwhelming. Compiled by the experienced MHS staff, this book is a great guide ... ... more -
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by Linda Blinn
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Making Family Journals is a comprehensive and inspirational collection of how-to projects and activities, from handmade family trees to photo scrapbooks, to travel journals, family recipe books, and dream journals. The book is geared toward creating projects that the entire family can enjoy and participate in, from making actual mini books to keeping ... ... moreby Linda Blinn
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Making Family Journals is a comprehensive and inspirational collection of how-to projects and activities, from handmade family trees to photo scrapbooks, to travel journals, family recipe books, and dream journals. The book is geared toward creating projects that the entire family can enjoy and participate in, from making actual mini books to keeping a shared journal during a trip. Families, creative parents, children, and scrapbook artists seeking to expand their craft and book artists looking for projects to share with family will all benefit from this book. Included are outlines for making a family tree, and projects that show how to track a family's history, document travels, create a memory book of friends or special events. There are also tips for making a family memory collage, a homemaking journal of family traditions and recipes, as well as a time capsule scrapbook. -
by Maxine Shulstad
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This wonderful new book is more than a family history. It traces 200 years of Maxine's ancestor's lives, loves, trials and victories. Contains family photos and other treasures, including Sigrid's trunk. ... moreby Maxine Shulstad
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This wonderful new book is more than a family history. It traces 200 years of Maxine's ancestor's lives, loves, trials and victories. Contains family photos and other treasures, including Sigrid's trunk. -
by Stew Thornley
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In the introduction, Thornley writes, “Cemetery surfing has become an increasingly popular hobby... . People making treks include genealogists tracing their roots, artists and writers admiring the monuments and epitaphs, travelers looking to get off the beaten path... . Visitors respond in different ways to what they encounter, taking pictures, making rubbings, ... ... moreby Stew Thornley
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In the introduction, Thornley writes, “Cemetery surfing has become an increasingly popular hobby... . People making treks include genealogists tracing their roots, artists and writers admiring the monuments and epitaphs, travelers looking to get off the beaten path... . Visitors respond in different ways to what they encounter, taking pictures, making rubbings, leaving offerings. . . ." This guidebook — splashed with interesting, enlightening and often unknown factoids about the state's history — also contains a helpful appendix with a county-by-county listing of Minnesota's cemeteries and their specific locations and lists the 400 famous, infamous and just plain interesting Minnesotans whose graves were visited by Thornley. The author's interest in cemeteries is not new. He has also visited the grave of every member of Baseball’s Hall of Fame, a quest that took him across the United States and to Cuba. -
June Drenning Holmquist; ed.
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Why did emigrants leave their homelands and move to Minnesota? Where in the state did they settle? What did they do, and how did they organize? How did they maintain their ethnicity? These are just a few of many deep questions addressed in this massive document making the subtitle, "A Survey of ... ... moreJune Drenning Holmquist; ed.
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Why did emigrants leave their homelands and move to Minnesota? Where in the state did they settle? What did they do, and how did they organize? How did they maintain their ethnicity? These are just a few of many deep questions addressed in this massive document making the subtitle, "A Survey of the State's Ethnic Groups", almost a misnomer. This is not "survey", as in quick scan or exit poll. This is an 8 1/2" X 11", 614-page tome with photos, illustrations, and charts covering 60 ethnic groups that settled in Minnesota. This is by far the largest and most expensive book carried by Rural Route Bookstore, and if it weren't worth the price, we wouldn't carry it. The various scholarly contributors read like a Who's Who of ethnic studies. When published, the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press wrote, "If you are a descendant of Icelanders or Lebanese, Greeks or Japanese, you will find interesting material in this book about your forebears and how it was when they settled in Minnesota." And yes, all five Scandinavian groups are covered in detail in this "must have" book for historian or genealogist.