TYPES OF FAMILY HISTORY RESOURCES
School Records
- College and University Resources
- County Superintendent of Schools Records
- Records provide countywide information about students and teachers
- Search the library catalog by county name and "Superintendent of Schools," e.g. Crow Wing County Superintendent of Schools
- Private School Records
- Search the library catalog by the name of the school
- Public School District Records
- Records of approximately 3,000 rural and independent school districts. The records are cataloged under the school district number at the time the records were created.
- Search the library catalog by:
- the county name and school district number,
- the name of the school, or
- the township or city name and the term "school," plus the county name if the township or city is a common name.
- School Publications
- Primarily yearbooks, although there are some other publications, for college-level institutions, and junior and senior high schools. There is an in-house guide for yearbooks.
- You may also search the library catalog by name of school and the term "yearbooks"
- State Special Educational Facilities
- Glen Lake Sanatorium
- Students: Pupil Index Cards, ca. 1932-1958
- Minnesota School for the Blind (Faribault)
- Students: Patient Registers and Indexes, 1900-1950
- Minnesota School for the Deaf/Faribault School for the Deaf
- Students: Admission Books, 1863-1888
- Students: Applications for Admission, ca. 1883-1921, including those rejected
- Students: Class Journals, 1897-1926
- Students: Patient Registers and Indexes, 1885-1903
- Students: Photographs, ca. 1910-195?
- Students: Register of Applications for Admission, ca. 1878-1885
- Students: School Exercise Books, 1893
- Minnesota State Public School (Owatonna)
- Glen Lake Sanatorium