County Resources

• Cemetery Directories for Calvary and Assumption Cemetery
• Inventory of Gravestones in Stearns, Benton and Sherburne Counties, in alphabetical order.
• All newspapers published in Stearns County on microfilm. Index to St. Cloud Daily Times from 1928, microfiche. Index cards on obituaries in St. Cloud Daily Times from 1887 - 1927.
• Naturalization papers for Stearns County on microfilm from 1853 - 1954.
• Census records for Stearns County, 1850, 1857, 1860, 1865, 1870 (indexed), 1875, 1880, 1885, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, and 1930 on microfilm.
• First property transfers by federal government in central Minnesota by tract description on microfilm.
• Plat maps of Stearns County from 1880 - current
• St. Cloud City Directories 1888 - 1999
• 100 Town and parish histories
• Regional school annuals
• 17,000 family histories
• 1,800 oral histories, indexed by subject
• Vertical files on local institutions, businesses, clubs, sports, tranportation, etc.
• 13,000 biographical vertical files
• Glanville Smith Diarys

• Photo collections, library & archives: 17,500
• Myron Hall photo collection: 273,000
• Studio portraits: 75,000
• Slides: 1,500
• Home movie frames: 1,800,000

Resources Beyond the County

• Minneapolis Irish Standard Newspaper 1886 - 1920
• Luxemburg Gazette, Dubuque, Iowa, 1871 - 1918, indexed
• Printout of all Luxembourg households 1880, 1930 & 1984
• Meyers Ort. German Empire Gazetteer, 1912
• Austro-Hungarian Empire Gazetteer, 1845
• Detailed maps of Germany & Luxembourg
• Germans to America 1850 to 1897
• Germans to America Series II, 1840 - 1847
• The Famine Immigrants, 1846 - 1851
• Westphalian Emigrants - Muenster, 1803 - 1850, indexed
• Westphalian Emigrants - Minden, 1816 - 1900, indexed
• Jos Mergen’s Trier Emigrants, Volumes 1 - 8 plus Schuhn’s Supplementary Volume, indexed
  
• Volumes 9 - 13, Saarland, indexed

Fees

General Research Fees
10% Discount off all fees for SHM Members
• Stearns County Birth and Death Records Information: $15 per individual name search.
• Stearns County Marriage: one bridal couple, $15. Month and year, from 1856-1900, full date and location, from 1916-1979.
• Minnesota Civil War Records: $15 per name search.
• Stearns County Naturalization Records Request: One individual, first and second papers, $15.
• Obituary Request: up to two individuals in up to two newspapers, $15.
• Other: Minnesota Alien Registration: $15.

Advanced Research Requests
• Newspaper article request: one individual on one date in up to two different papers, $15.
• St. Cloud City Directory: one individual or family, $15 per one-half hour.
• Stearns County Census Search Request: Territorial, State, and Federal: One individual or family, $15 per one-half hour.
• In-depth Research Request: Anything not otherwise specified, $15 per one-half hour.

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