• Family Files - see if anyone has done any research on your family - don’t reinvent the wheel.
  
  
• Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths recorded in Douglas County from the beginning through 2001; indexes since 2001 are now being entered into the computer.
  
  
• Obituaries and Marriage notices clipped from the newspapers.
  
  
• Card files for the obituaries and the marriages sorted alphabetically.
  
  
• Douglas County newspapers on microfilm. This includes:
  

  	- Post News 1872 -1920
  	- Alexandria Citizen 1896 -1944
  	- Alexandria Park Region Echo 1908 -1996
  	- Douglas County Sentinel 1893 -1895
  	- Douglas County News 1878 -1894 and 1832 -1833
  	- Alexandria Republican 1894 -1897
  	- Alexandria Daily News 1969 -70
  	- Lake Region Echo 1970 -1987
  	- Lake Region Press 1962 -1996
  	- Ashby Avalanche 1883 -1886
  	- Hoffman Advocate 1906
  	- Parkers Prairie Independent 1922 -1927
  	- Grant County Farmer 1890 -1896
  	- Ashby Post 1903 -1919
  	- Brandon Echo 1896 -1908
  	- Evansville Enterprise 1890 -1902  and 1922 -1946
  	- West Douglas County Record 1981 -1986 (Evansville)
  	- Osakis Observer 1881
  	- Osakis Review 1891 -1988
  	- Lake Region Farmer 1955 -1962
  	- Rural MN News 1958 -1986
  	- Echo Press 1996-2005 - New in 2007

• Census records - all Federal census records for Minnesota from 1850-1930 and the MN state census records for 1865-1905. (Minnesota did a state census in the years ending in 5 during this time period). Note: the 1890 federal census was destroyed in a fire and is not available. The 1885 Douglas County Census has been transcribed and is in a book.
  
  
• Soundex for 1880, 1900, and part of 1920.
  
  
• Census and mortality indexes in books for MN and some surrounding states.
  
  
• Douglas County Naturalization records - the index is in a book, records are on microfilm.
  
  
• Cemetery records
  
  
• Files on all churches; copies of actual records from some churches
  
  
• Douglas County tax records - mostly for the 00 and 01 ending years, both real estate and personal property, on microfilm
  
  
• Douglas County reference books - Album of the Ages, History of Douglas and Grant Counties, Millerville, Urness, Kensington, and more
  
  
• Plat maps beginning 1886
  
  
• Transcription of land transactions from 1860 -1876 arranged by township.
  
  
• Files on businesses, organizations, events, parks, etc. 
  
  
• Phone books and city directories for Alexandria
  
  
• Veterans files
  
  
• Rural school teacher files
  
  
• School yearbooks (not all years)
  
  
• Early school district information (limited)
  
  
• Oral histories
  
  
• Maps - ask for help
  
  
• Photo Archives
  
  
• Grantor and Grantee indexes; chattel mortgage records pre-1913
  
  
• Harold Bradley history of businesses in Alexandria; the information up to 1965 is in the computer and is searchable.
  
  
• Douglas County and Township history information.
  

• Genealogy reference books for both U.S. and foreign research.  Genealogy periodicals.
  
  
• Data and books from other Minnesota counties.
  
  
• A few Minneapolis and St. Paul city directories
  
  
• Computer CDs:
  

  	- Germans to America
  	- Swedish Emigrant
  	- Family Tree Maker Files
  	- Social Security Death Index - this is also available online
  	- Township slides - in progress

In addition, the staff and volunteers can assist you with finding information on the computers.  We have many files and databases that have been put on the computers, and are in the process of adding several more.

      We do the work:    $15.00
      You do the work:    $ 7.50