TYPES OF FAMILY HISTORY RESOURCES
Biographical Resources
- Biography Files (in-house card files)
- "Minnesota Biographies" contains approximately 9,000 of these entries
- Biography Reference Sets
- American Ancestry: … Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United State Previous to the Declaration of Independence
- The American Genealogical-Biographical Index
- Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, plus indexes
- Dictionary of American Biography, plus indexes and supplements
- Dictionary of American Negro Biography
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography, plus an Index to volumes 1-4
- Dictionary of National Biography, (Great Britain) plus supplements, indexes, additions/corrections/errata
- Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles Canadiennes Depuis la Foundation de la Colonie Jusqu'à nos Jours, by Cyprien Tanquay and the supplement, Complément au Dictionnaire Généalogique Tanguay
- Encyclopedia of American Biography
- French-Canadian Families of the North Central States: A Genealogical Dictionary
- Genealogical Index (Newberry Library)
- Lamb's Biographical Dictionary of the United States
- Who Was Who In America, plus an Index, 1607-1985
- Who's Who Among Black Americans
- Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans
- Who's Who Among Minnesota Women
- Who's Who in America
- Who's Who in Minnesota, 1941, 1964
- Who's Who in the Central States
- Who's Who in the Midwest
- Plus many more
- Manuscript Biographies Collections (P939) is a group of small collections of personal papers that have been cataloged together in a collection. Do a "Browse Search" in the library catalog by the call number P393 to see a list of the persons included.
- Minnesota Author Biographies
- Minnesota County Histories often include biographical sketches of pioneers. Search the library catalog using a subject search by the name of the county and the term "biography."
