Recent Updates

Olmsted County - Recent Updates

July 9, 2009

Cemetery/burial updates: 126 burials added to St. Paul cemetery; 20 burials to Cline Cemetery, and information/photo for Randall Fork Cemetery.

Biographies: 12 new biographies added

Maps: 1869 Aerial view/map of Rochester

Pictures/Postcards: 15 new pictures from Rochester; 1 from Dover; 1 from Eyota; Three from rural Olmsted co.

1937 Olmsted co. Professionals: Physicians and Surgeons, Dentists, Attorneys, Photographers listed.

May 23, 2009

Cemeteries: 117 burials have been added for St. Paul's Church cemetery.

Marriages and Births: added new announcements from newspaper.

"Social News" - updated for Stewartville, Byron, Othello, Douglas, Eyota, Oronoco, Rochester, Chatfield, Viola, Pleasant Grove, Simpson, and Salem, from 1915.

Obituaries: added obits for Dr. Laura Linton, and Eliza Vroman Hall.

Churches: added an article on the organization of the Union Church at Douglas.

April 23, 2009

Updates for April, 2009 are:

Biographies - 7 new biographies have been added:

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/olmsted/biographies/

Military - I've compiled data on 82 Civil War soldiers with ties to Minnesota (birth, death, residence, beginning and ending military dates, rank, pensions, etc.) This project is far from complete, and will be ongoing

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/olmsted/Military/

The Newspaper section will include newspaper articles; at the moment, there's only one lonely article, but there will be more!

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/olmsted/newspapers/

Censuses - census data has been updated for 1860, 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920.

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/olmsted/census/

Cemeteries - A listing of Olmsted county cemeteries, and their mapped locations is now online.

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/olmsted/cemeteries/index.htm

If you have anything from your research that you can contribute, it would be greatly appreciated. Each little bit of information has the potential to help someone else in their pursuit of their family history. Thanks for your consideration!

March 29, 2009

Updates include additional information on early churches in Rochster - the Universalist Society, Roman Catholic Church, German Methodist Churc, and the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Also included are churches of Marion and Kalmar township.

I added articles on the Cyclone of 1883, describing damage done in the County (previously only Rochester damage was online), and an article on the Second Minnesota Hospital for the Insane in Rochester.

Townships and Cities were updated with additional information.

Vinita Lynch Shaw so kindly sent information from the Social Security application of Carl Martin Mogen from 1936. Thanks so much, Vinita!

Biographies of Burt Eaton and Clifford Brimmer were also added.

There will be much, much more to come! If you had anything you could consider sharing with other researchers, don't hesitate to let me know. I'd be delighted to get it online for you!

Your hostess,

Karen Hammer

March 15, 2009

Updates for the Olmsted County, Minnesota include:

Biographies - Edwin F. Whiting

Church Histories - Congregational, Protestant Episcopal, Methodist, and First Baptist Churches of Rochester

Military - an article on the Civil War and Olmsted County; also a listing of Olmsted County Civil War Heroes by township.

Historical information for the towns of Byron, Chatfield, Chester, Cummingsville, Douglas, Dover, Eyota, Genoa, High Forest, Horton, Judge, Lair, Pleasant Grove, Potsdam, Predmore, Rochester, Simpson, Stewartville, and Viola.

Historical information for the townships of Cascade, Dover, Elmire, Eyota, Farmington, Haverhill, High Forest, Kalmar, Marion, New Haven, Orion, Oronoco, Pleasant Grove, Quincy, Rock Dell, Salem and Viola.

Information on county Lakes and Hills.

Articles on Olmsted County Origins, County Organization, some Early Murders, Crime & Casualties, Indians, Early Newspapers, and the Cyclone of 1883.

Enjoy!
Karen

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