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| ===Libraries and Archives=== | | ===Libraries and Archives=== |
| The Family History Library and the Minnesota Historical Society Library have incomplete collections of directories from throughout Minnesota. Many were published as county directories, listing inhabitants of major towns in the county. Rural directories collected information on farmers, dairymen, and other rural residents. | | The FamilySearch Library and the Minnesota Historical Society Library have incomplete collections of directories from throughout Minnesota. Many were published as county directories, listing inhabitants of major towns in the county. Rural directories collected information on farmers, dairymen, and other rural residents. |
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| *Ancestry.com ($) has Minnesota directories available online in its [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1540 U.S. City Directories] collection. | | *Ancestry.com ($) has Minnesota directories available online in its [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1540 U.S. City Directories] collection. |
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| ===The Family History Library=== | | ===The FamilySearch Library=== |
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| The [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library Family History Library] has city directories for various years from throughout the state of Minnesota including: | | The [https://www.familysearch.org/family-history-library/welcome-to-the-family-history-library FamilySearch Library] has city directories for various years from throughout the state of Minnesota including: |
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| |1856–1859 | | |1856–1859 |
| |Family History Library {{FSC|541391|title-id|disp=microfiche 6044463–65}} | | |FamilySearch Library {{FSC|541391|title-id|disp=microfiche 6044463–65}} |
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| |1863–1935 | | |1863–1935 |
| |beginning with Family History Library {{FSC|541391|title-id|disp=microfilm 13770507}} | | |beginning with FamilySearch Library {{FSC|541391|title-id|disp=microfilm 13770507}} |
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| |1865–1935 | | |1865–1935 |
| |beginning with Family History Library {{FSC|1377061|film|disp=microfilm 1377061}} <br> | | |beginning with FamilySearch Library {{FSC|1377061|film|disp=microfilm 1377061}} <br> |
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| |1960, 1975, 1985 etc. | | |1960, 1975, 1985 etc. |
| |FS Library book [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bcall_number%3A%22977.6579%20E4p*%22 977.6579 E4p] | | |FS Library book [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&query=%2Bcall_number%3A%22977.6579%20E4p*%22 977.6579 E4p] |
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| Polk, R.L. and Company. ''Northwestern Gazetteer, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana Gazetteer and Business Directory''. St. Paul, Minnesota: Polk, 1914. (Family History Library {{FSC|142321|title-id|disp=microfilm 1321220-21}}.) The first part of the directory covers Minnesota and lists residences of people, often with their occupation. It also serves as a gazetteer for the time. It lists population, churches and commercial buildings, newspapers, and where land was located and the price for which it was selling. | | Polk, R.L. and Company. ''Northwestern Gazetteer, Minnesota, North and South Dakota and Montana Gazetteer and Business Directory''. St. Paul, Minnesota: Polk, 1914. (FamilySearch Library {{FSC|142321|title-id|disp=microfilm 1321220-21}}.) The first part of the directory covers Minnesota and lists residences of people, often with their occupation. It also serves as a gazetteer for the time. It lists population, churches and commercial buildings, newspapers, and where land was located and the price for which it was selling. |
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