Project: Minnesota

Categories: Minnesota | Minnesota Project | Minnesota, Projects

The Minnesota Project is part of the United States History Project.

Welcome to the Minnesota Project!

The purpose of this project is to coordinate all Minnesota related projects and resources and combine that information into one place.

Minnesota Counties
Aitkin Anoka Becker Beltrami Benton Big Stone Blue Earth Brown Carlton Carver
Cass Chippewa Chisago Clay Clearwater Cook Cottonwood Crow Wing Dakota Dodge
Douglas Faribault Fillmore Freeborn Goodhue Grant Hennepin Houston Hubbard Isanti
Itasca Jackson Kanabec Kandiyohi Kittson Koochiching Lac qui Parle Lake Lake of the Woods Le Sueur
Lincoln Lyon Mahnomen Marshall Martin McLeod Meeker Mille Lacs Morrison Mower
Murray Nicollet Nobles Norman Olmsted Otter Tail Pennington Pine Pipestone Polk
Pope Ramsey Red Lake Redwood Renville Rice Rock Roseau Saint Louis Scott
Sherburne Sibley Stearns Steele Stevens Swift Todd Traverse Wabasha Wadena
Waseca Washington Watonwan Wilkin Winona Wright Yellow Medicine

Contents

How to Join

It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of Minnesota or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:

Are you interested in the Minnesota Project?united_states.gif

For a full list of participants in the United States Project, see the badge report.

Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.

Templates

The template is {{United States|sub-project=Minnesota}} which will give you:

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... ... ... is a part of Minnesota history.
Join: Minnesota Project
Discuss: Minnesota

This above template is for use only on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd and managed by the project.

It is not for every single person from Minnesota. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance:

Minnesota Sticker Directions
Deceased persons {{Minnesota Sticker}}
... ... ... was a Minnesotan.
Living Persons {{Minnesota Sticker|living=y}}
... ... ... is a Minnesotan.

Goals

The overall goals of the US History Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in the state of Minnesota. To meet these goals:

  1. Add Minnesota-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
  2. If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
  3. Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
  4. Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
  5. Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
  6. Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.

List of Things to Do

  1. Need space pages created and developed for Minnesota counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
  2. If you have any Minnesota state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to Sources-Minnesota
  3. If you live in Minnesota, please consider adding Category: Minnesota Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.

Ongoing List of Things to Do

  1. Cemeteries in Minnesota need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the Minnesota Cemeteries Project
  2. Add profiles for those who obtained land grants and homesteaded in Minnesota. See the Homesteaders Project
  3. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about Minnesota state tribes.
  4. Work on Minnesota's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
  5. Create new profiles for people of Minnesota who are documented in a family member's profile, but might not have their own profiles yet. See Needs Profiles Created
  6. Work on Suggestions for profiles from Minnesota, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
  7. Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from Minnesota in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.
  8. Help find the Last Name at Birth (LNAB) for Minnesota Unknowns using the Profile Improvement Project Unknowns Team Process.
  9. Help add profiles with the US Black Heritage 1880 Project Teams

Town and County Projects

Minnesota Related Pages on WikiTree

Minnesota Related Categories on WikiTree

Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree

Online Publications

The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier by Charles E. Flandrau in multiple formats; concludes with a bibliography of 139 books related to Minnesota published prior to 1872 (starts on page 254).

Resources

Minnesota Historical Society

  • MNopedia: well source articles on various historical topics with illustrations, timelines, and This Day in Minnesota by MN Historical Society.

Minnesota Genealogical Society includes:

Minnesota Digital Library via MN University: items from 203 historical societies, libraries, archives, and cultural organization across Minnesota.

See also Sources-Minnesota



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