This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Savidge Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DIB.2ACE/340.3.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There are three basic local history / biography books for the area. History of the Minnesota Valley - has short one paragraph biographies, but has lots of them, published 1882 Memorial Record of Southwestern Minnesota - longer biographies on Civil War veterans, published 1897 Nicollet and LeSueur Counties (two volumes) - volume one is county histories while volume two is biographies, published 1916 I have posted transcriptions to the LeSueur county web site of all three, for what I had photocopied. I checked the indexes of the latter two but did not find any Savidge references. Someone has a CD-ROM version of the first history which they sell on eBay, which go for $15-20.