Basic Genealogical Websites
St. Michael Local Area
Church Records - St. Michael and Frankfort Township
St. Walburga Parish in Fletcher [Hennepin County] - Starts with image 554
Vital Records - St. Michael and Frankfort Township
Vital Records of St. Michael and Frankfort Township, beginning 1871
Cemeteries - St. Michael Area
St. Michael Cemetery [Old] in St. Michael
St. Michael Cemetery [New] in St. Michael
St. Albert's Cemetery in Albertville
St. Mark's Cemetery in Buffalo (near Pellican Lake)
See findagrave.com for other cemeteries.
Obituaries and Funeral Homes - St. Michael Area
The Peterson Chapel - St. Michael
Evans-Nordby Funeral Homes - Osseo/Brooklyn Center
Dare's Funeral Home and Cremation Services - Elk River/Monticello
Wright County
Historical Societies
Wright County Historical Society
St. Michael Historical Society
Hanover Historical Society
Delano and Franklin Township Historical Society
Minnesota Area
United States
Ancestry.com - Commercial site - available for free at all branches in the Great River Regional Library system
FamilySearch.org - World's largest genealogical collection - requires account (free) to access various archival records
Find A Grave - US and Canada graves locator
Language and Handwriting - Translation Tools
Translator - Translate from a foreign language to English
UsGenWeb Project - United States
Passenger Arrivals
People Locators
moms.mn.gov/ - Minnesota Official Marriage System - Check for possible marriage, which may change name
Whitepages - US phone directory - Search by Person, Reverse Phone, Reverse Address
https://www.infobel.com/ - International phone directory
Select Midwestern USA States
ILLINOIS
MINNESOTA
Minnesota Official Marriage System
MISSOURI
WISCONSIN
Outside the United States:
Austria
Surname Distribution Map - AustriaDenmark
France
Calendar - Convert French Republican Calendar (Napoleon era) to Gregorian Calendar
French Word List - French to English
Surname Distribution Map - France
German Empire
Germany Genealogy Internet Portal - German genealogy site
Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg - Digital images of some parish registers
Telephone Directory - Modern Germany
Latin-English Dictionary - Online
Handwriting Sample in Wiki
Handwriting (Click on Examples Box)
German Gazetteers & Maps
Baden - Online help to determine where
Bayern (Bavaria) - Digitized, but not yet available online
Search the index of the Prussian gazetteers:
Heft 4 - Pommern (Province of Pomerania)
Heft 5 - Posen (Province of Posen)
Heft 6 - Schlesien (Province of Silesia)
Heft 7 - Sachsen (Province of Saxony)
Heft 9 - Hannover (Province of Hanover)
Heft 11 - Hessen Nassau (Province of Hesse-Nassau)
Heft 12 - Rheinprovinz (Province of Rhineland)
Eifel Region - Five Counties - by Stephen S Barthel - Kreis Bitburg, Cochem, Daun, Prüm, and Wittlich - Note the church or civil (vital) records localities for village, then check type in the name of the records locality on https://www.familysearch.org/catalog/search.
Eifel Region - Birth and Marriage Search by town - by Tom Pick - (Does not include all localities in the Eifel Region.)
MAPS
Surname Distribution Map - Modern Germany
Map of the Former German Empire - Historical Maps - Scroll to grid map, enlarge map, select number in upper-right corner of desired map, scroll down further to select detailed map from selected number given in parenthesis.
Meyers Gazetteer - Type in name of German Empire locality - Zooming in reveals modern map.
Luxembourg
Poland
MAPS
Modern Map - Poland
Meyers Gazetteer - Type in former German name of the locality
GAZETTEERS
Under German Empire - see under GERMAN GAZETTEERS & MAPS
Deutsch-fremdsprachiges (fremdsprachig-deutsches) Ortsnamenverzeichnis. This name-change gazetteer is for areas lost from Germany to Poland after WWI, such as Posen, and further north.
Amtliches Gemeinde- und Ortsnamenverzeichnis der deutschen Ostgebiete unter fremder Verwaltung - for Schlesien (Silesia), which German lost after WWI. You may find this at family history centers on LDS microfiche 6053256 (not yet digitized). This type of gazetteer shows that Falkowitz, Kreis Oppeln, Silesia became “Germanized” to Falkendorf during the Hitler era, then changed to Fałkowice, Opole, Poland after WWII.
Kartenmeister - scroll the page and enter German or Polish info into appropriate field - incomplete.
Spis miejscowości Polskiej Rzeczypospolitej Ludowej is the standard gazetteer for Poland, used by catalogers at the Family History Library. It does not give parish jurisdictions.
Słownik geograficzny królestwa polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskych lists localities.
Skorowidz miejscowości rzeczypospolitej polskiej - Poland between WWI and WWII
SOCIETIES AND ARCHIVES
Internet Polish Genealogical Source - Links to sites, databases, and other sources
Poznan Project - Database
Lublin Roots - Scroll the page for the parishes
WORD LISTS
Polish Genealogical Word List - Polish to English
Latin Genealogical Work List - Latin to English
German Genealogical Word List - German to English
Russian Genealogical Word List - Russian to English
(For German Handwriting Guide, see under German Empire)
Slovenia
Sweden
Riksarkivet - (Digital Archives of Sweden)
Digitized Records from FamilySearch
Switzerland
Telephone Directory - To see where surnames are today
United Kingdom & Ireland
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News & Events
Our next meeting will be on February 13th, 2023 at 7pm in the Craft Room at St. Michael City Hall. Meetings are typically held quarterly on Mondays at 7:00 PM in the Lenhardt Public Meeting Room adjacent to the Library in the St. Michael City Hall building at 11800 Town Center Drive, NE, St. Michael, Minnesota
Interested in a Ken Zylla signed and numbered print depicting a Central Avenue street scene in St. Michael, circa 1960? Email zahlerb66@gmail.com for further information and/or Order Form. Prints also available at our on line "store" tab above.
Visit Our Location
St. Michael Historical Society
11800 Town Center Drive
St. Michael, MN 55376