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Projects

• Cook County Genealogy and History      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Cook County MNGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Lake County, MN  to the west

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Cook County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Early Finnish Settlers in Colvill 

Cemeteries

• Cook County  Minnesota Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Cook County (MN) Cemeteries 
• Cook County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Cook County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Cook County, MN Cemeteries      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (14)

Court and Legal Records

• Cook County Courthouse 

History

• Cook County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Cook County History Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Down Memory Lane  A column in the Cook County News-Herald
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Library

  • Library History  Grand Marais Public Library

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Brule, MN Hotel Blown Down in High Wind, Mar 1910      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chippewa, Chisago, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Cottonwood and Crow Wing County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Cook County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Grand Marais, Minnesota Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Grand Marais, MN Santa Claus Plane Crashes, Dec 1949      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Tofte, MN Forest Fire, May 1910      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Tofte, MN Private Plane Crash, Aug 1957      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides

• Cook County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Cook County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Cook County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Cook County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Cook Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)
• Cyndi's List of Minnesota locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Cook County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Cook County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• North Shore Commercial Fishing Museum 
• Northeast Minnesota Historical Center 
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Cook County, Minnesota     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Cook County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Cook County, MN Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• MNCOOK-L Cook County genealogy

  • MNCOOK-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • MNCOOK-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • MNCOOK-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Cook County      (Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas)
• Cook County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Cook County Post Offices 
• Cook County Postal Covers      ($)
• Cook County Topo Maps and Aerial Photos      (Source: Trails.com)
• Tiger Map Server Browser 

Military Records and Histories

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Cook County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Cook County, Minnesota  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• 1885 Birthplaces  A breakdown of where 1885 county residents were originally born     (Source: KinSource)
• Cook County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Cook County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Cook County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Cook County News Herald      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Cook County News-Herald 
• Cook County obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Cook County Star 
• Swede-Finns in Cook County 

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Cook County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Historical Postcards of Cook County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Northeast Minnesota Historical Center Images  Minnesota Reflections

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Cook County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Cook County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Minnesota Historic Light Station Information & Photography 
• Patents  Cook County, Minnesota     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Cook County  Minnesota Births
• Cook County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Minnesota Marriages  Cook County     (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Cook County, Minnesota     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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