Norman County, Minnesota

Obituary Look-Up Policy 2011

Norman County Genealogy Society members volunteer their time to provide obituary look-ups. Obituary collections are available at the following sites in Norman County: Log Museum at Prairie Village and Ada Public Library in Ada, Red River Museum at Shelly and the Heritage Center in Twin Valley. Obituary lookup service is for those who are not from this area and are not able to visit the four sites where the obituary collections are housed.

The following volunteers may be contacted for lookups:

Margit – Eastern Norman County margit@eot.com

Deb – Western Norman County dajacob@loretel.net

Roland – Civil War Veterans rlcarpe@gmail.com

We ask that you to limit the requests for look-ups to the following policy:

• *Volunteers will provide no more than 5 lookups per request. Three requests per

  person will be honored for a total of 15 lookups.

• *Lookups 1-5 are free.

• *Each additional 5 lookups are $5 up to a total of 15 lookups per person.

• *Volunteers must receive payment before lookups 6-10 and 11-15 will be done.

• *Make money orders or personal checks payable to the Norman County

  Genealogy Society.

  Index and Obituary Policy

The items below are ALL needed for a lookup

BOOK Number
NAME of Person
PAGE Number

Contact Margit (Nysetvold) Bakke

Dealing with Brickwalls —

When you hit a brickwall, leave it alone for awhile. If possible, have someone new look at your information and maybe they can see something you cannot and have ideas that you have not thought about on where to look.
For 20 years I had a brickwall, with persistence and determination and lots of trips to Houston County of Minnesota, I broke the wall down. All I knew was that my great-grandfather was born in Valders and came to America as a small child. With that information and the help of many along the way, I finally found his christening record in Bergen, Norway. His mother was from Valdres, she was not married to the father, she went to Bergen and gave birth to him and then they came to America.
Never be afraid to ask for help from others. There are many lists you can ask for help on at Rootsweb.

Facebook and Norwegian Genealogy

If you are on Facebook, you should check out the two Norwegian Genealogy sites I have seen to join. There are many people willing to help on both pages:


Norwegian Genealogy

Norwegian Genealogy

If you find more, just let me know and I will post them.

Help is just a click away!

There are many sites on the net that have free genealogy help. To find them is not always the easiest. One of the best free sites is:
Familysearch
https://www.familysearch.org/search
They have all of the United States Census records online up to 1930.
They have the following online for Minnesota:

• Minnesota Births and Christenings, 1840-1980
• Minnesota Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990
• Minnesota Marriages, 1849-1950
• Minnesota State Census, 1875
• Minnesota State Census, 1885
• Minnesota State Census, 1895
• Minnesota State Census, 1905
• Minnesota Territorial Census, 1857
• Minnesota Will Records, 1849-1985
• Minnesota, County Birth Records, 1863-1983
• Browse Images
• Minnesota, County Marriages, 1860-1949
• Minnesota, Death Records, 1866-19164
• Minnesota, State Census, 1865

When you sign up for free, you can then have access to the images of the records when available.