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Minnesota Polk County
Guide to Polk County Minnesota genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.
| Polk County, Minnesota | |
| Map | |
 Location in the state of Minnesota | |
 Location of Minnesota in the U.S. | |
| Facts | |
| Founded | July 20, 1858 |
|---|---|
| County Seat | Crookston |
| Courthouse | |
| Address | Polk County Courthouse 612 N Broadway Crookston, MN 56716 Phone: 218.281.3464 Polk County Website |
Contents |
County Courthouse
County Administrator has birth, death, probate and court records from 1875.
County Recorder has land records. [1]
History
Parent County
1858--Polk County was created 20 July 1858 from Pembina (Old) County. County seat: Crookston [2]
Boundary Changes
Record Loss
Places/Localities
Populated Places
Neighboring Counties
- Clearwater
- Grand Forks County, North Dakota
- Mahnomen
- Marshall
- Norman
- Pennington
- Red Lake
- Traill County, North Dakota
- Walsh County, North Dakota
Resources
Cemeteries
Church
Most church records are held by individual churches. For contact information, check a phone directory, such as SearchBug or Dex Knows. Some denominations are gathering their records into a central repository. For more information about these major repositories, see Minnesota Church Records.
Lutheran
Elk Valley Lutheran Church, Grand Forks
- Records of the Elk Valley Lutheran Church, Grand Forks, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).[3]
Fisher
- Records of the American Lutheran Church, Fisher, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).
Fron Lutheran Church, Starbuck
- Records of the Fron Lutheran Church, Starbuck, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).[3]
Hafslo Evangelical Lutheran Church, Crookston
- Records of Hafslo Evangelical Lutheran Church, Crookston, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).[3]
Court
Land
The county register of deeds keeps land records once the land was transferred to private ownership. Abstracts and indexes for these records are generally available at the county courthouse.
Land records for Minnesota are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:
MINNESOTA, Polk – LAND AND PROPERTY
Local Histories
Local histories are available for Polk County, Minnesota. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Minnesota Local Histories.
- McCall, T. M. Centennial History of Polk County. Crookston, MN: McGarry Printing Co., 1961. Print.
Maps
Military
Newspapers
Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Polk County, Minnesota newspapers in online catalogs like:
- WorldCat
- FamilySearch. Do a Polk County, Minnesota Place-name search for these and other records in the Family History Library Catalog (For instructions see, FHL Catalog Place-name Search).
Probate
Probate records may include, wills, bonds, petitions, accounts, inventories, administrations, orders, decrees, and distributions. They may include the decedent’s date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, etc. See Minnesota Probate Records for additional information.
Taxation
Minnesota tax records complement land records and can be used in place of censuses before 1820 or to supplement the years between censuses. Because only persons who owned taxable property were listed, many residents were not included in tax lists. There may also be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties. For more information, see the wiki page Minnesota Taxation.
Vital Records
Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents.
A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Minnesota State Registrar of Vital Records or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred. See also Minnesota Vital Records. For information about restrictions and costs for certificates, see the CDC Where to Write for Vital Records site.
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
References
- ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Polk County, Minnesota page 367, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
- ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: An Inventory of Selected Congregational Records of the American Lutheran Church in Minnesota at the Minnesota Historical Society," Collection Finding Aids, Minnesota Historical Society, http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01009.xml, accessed 10 June 2013.
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