Wadena County, Minnesota:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Becker County, MN  to the northwest
• Cass County, MN  to the east
• Hubbard County, MN  to the north
• Otter Tail County, MN  to the west
• Todd County, MN  to the south

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

• Wadena Co, Minnesota, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Wadena County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (26)

Court and Legal Records

• Wadena County Courthouse 

History

• National Register of Historic Places 
• Wadena County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wadena County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Shell City, Minnesota      (Source: Ghosttowns.com)

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

  • Wabasha, Wadena, Waseca, Washington, Watonwan, Wilkin, Winona and Wright County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Wadena County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Wadena, Minnesota Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)

Introduction and Guides (10)

Land Records

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Wadena County, Minnesota     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Wadena County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• MNWADENA-L Wadena County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (40)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Wadena County, Minnesota     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Wadena County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Migrations through Wadena County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Wadena County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Wadena County Records      (Source: Find County Records)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Wadena County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Wadena County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Sebeka Menahga Review Messenger News 
• Wadena County obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Wadena Pioneer Journal 
• Wadena Pioneer Journal      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Minnesota--Wadena.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• Wadena School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Search Engines and Searchable Databases

• Minnesota Official Marriage System  Wadena County     (Source: Minnesota Official Marriage System)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname

• Descendants of David S Bachler      (Source: Don and Scharmal Triesch Conley Homepage)
• Biography of H. F. Brink  Montana, Its Story and Biography (1921)     (Source: Digital Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, UMT-Missoula)
• Biography of C. E. Bullard      (Source: USGenWeb Minnesota Archives)
• Samuel S. Hess      (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Samuel S. Hess Family  Francis Ray Hess, Richard Earl Hess, Jesse Noah Hess, William Sandford Hess, James Grant Hess, Maude Alice Hess, Samuel Hess, Melissa "Ellen" Adams Hess, Leah Hazel Hess     (Source: Family Old Photos)
• Biography of Rufus B. Kelley  Montana, Its Story and Biography (1921)     (Source: Digital Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, UMT-Missoula)
• Biography of Charles H. Moffatt      (Source: Eastern Washington Biographical Sketches)
• Biography of William P. Roscoe  Montana, Its Story and Biography (1921)     (Source: Digital Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, UMT-Missoula)
• Biography of Ignatius Tomazin      (Source: USGenWeb Minnesota Archives)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Wadena County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Wadena County, Minnesota     (Source: Google Patents)
• Wadena County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Wadena County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• Minnesota Marriages  Wadena County     (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Minnesota Official Marriage System  Wadena County     (Source: Minnesota Official Marriage System)
• Minnesota, County Birth Records  1863-1983     (Source: Family History Library)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Wadena County, Minnesota     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Wadena County  Minnesota Births
• Wadena County Births      (Source: Minnesota Births)
• Wadena County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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