In a message dated 10/8/2007 12:35:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Only goes back to 1904. Using index cards it goes back to 1900 and even some before from delayed registrations. Annie in Minnesota ************************************** See what's new at http://www.aol.com

At 06:22 AM 10/8/2007, you wrote: > >In a message dated 10/8/2007 12:35:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time, >[email protected] writes: > >Only goes back to 1904. > >Using index cards it goes back to 1900 and even some before from delayed >registrations. > >Annie in Minnesota The death records that are on-line were collected by the Minnesota State Department of Health. The index is theirs as well. The state got a lot more interested the late 1890s, which is why Minnesota has the ONLY 1900 mortality census in the U.S. The index cards came from reports to the state, the death records after 1908 from actual copies of the certs filed at the local levels of government. However, the first Minnesota law requiring the filing of vital records in Minnesota was in 1870 (they were to be filed in local governmental offices -- villages such as White Bear Lake, townships such as Rose and New Canada), and some in St. Paul go back before 1870. The microfilms made by the Genealogical Society of Utah for the Family History Libraries were made from the records at the County level, and will include the earlier records. For more info and links, see my research note at <http://www.parkbooks.com/Html/res_vitl.html>. Mary Mary Bakeman [email protected] Ramsey MnGenWeb Coordintor http://www.parkbooks.com/MnGenWeb/ Park Genealogical Books http://www.parkbooks.com/