Have You Checked ?

Updated 21 July 2012.

My Bookmarks list includes:

DATEBASES

• Family Search.
  --US censuses.
  --South Dakota State Censuses, 1905, 1915, 1925, 1935, 1945.
• Heritage Quest.  Must have a South Dakota library card.
• Historic Map Works, South Dakota.  South Dakota historical maps and atlases on-line.
  --Cemeteries in South Dakota.
  --Churches in South Dakota.
  --Civil Places in South Dakota.
• Ancestry.com has selected Huron newspapers on-line.  (Subscription website.)
  --1884-1885, 1907-1909--DAKOTA HURONITE;
  --1886-1898, 1910--DAILY HURONITE;
  --1927-1944--EVENING HURONITE;
  --1946-1959--HURONITE & DAILY PLAINSMAN;
  --1960-1974--DAILY PLAINSMAN.

MESSAGE BOARDS
Please post your queries on these boards:

• Beadle County, South Dakota--Ancestry.
• Beadle County, South Dakota--GenForum.

RESOURCES

• Beadle County, South Dakota, official county website.
  --Contact the Register of Deeds office for birth, death, and marriage records.
• Dakotaland Museum.
• Huron (SD) Public Library. 
  --Contact for copies of obituaries.
  --Ancestry Library Edition.  Available at the library.
  --SDLN Public Catalog search.  Remember to set the library name to restrict results.
• South Dakota State Historical Society, Archives, For Genealogists.
• United States Geographic Names Information System. 
  --Type in a Feature Name, State, and County and see what comes up.
  --Or type in the County and State and choose from the Feature Class (Church, Cemetery, School, etc.).

VITAL RECORDS

• Kuhler Funeral Home, Huron SD.
• Welter Funeral Home, Huron SD.
• South Dakota, Births, With Birth Dates Over 100 years.
  (South Dakota Department of Health).  Recording vital records began 1 July 1905; however, compliance was spotty for many years.
• South Dakota State Historical Society, Cemetery Record Search.   Partial listing of South Dakota burials through early 1940s.
  [Source:Work Projects Administration, Graves Registration Project]
  --Beadle County cemeteries--See USGenWeb. 

 OTHER STATES

• California Death Records, 1940-1997
• Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900. 
• Missouri Secretary of State, Missouri Digital Heritage.  Death certificates, and more.

© 2012 Sheryl Stearns Hickle  <sdakgen (at) yahoo.com>.