Meade County, South Dakota:
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Projects

• Meade County      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Meade County SDGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Meade County, South Dakota      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Butte County, SD  to the northwest
• Haakon County, SD  to the southeast
• Lawrence County, SD  to the west
• Pennington County, SD  to the south
• Perkins County, SD  to the north
• Ziebach County, SD  to the east

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

• Meade Co, South Dakota, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)

Cemeteries (26)

Census Records and Indexes (15)

History

• Meade County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Meade County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Meade County History  History of South Dakota, Vol. 1, 1904     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Meade County History 
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • Fort Meade      (Source: South Dakota Ghost Towns)

• Library

  • Sturgis Public Library  Page 59

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

  • Ellsworth Air Force Base, SD Bomber Crash, Aug 1954      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Faith Municipal, South Dakota Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • McCook, McPherson, Marshall, Meade, Mellette, Miner, Minnehaha and Moody County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Meade County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Sturgis, SD Bronco Accident, Jun 1907      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Sturgis, SD Helicopter Crash, May 1986      (Source: GenDisasters)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• South Dakota County Naturalization Records  1865-1972     (Source: Family History Library)

Introduction and Guides (13)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• South Dakota BLM Database  Meade County     (Source: USGenWeb South Dakota Archives)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Historical Repositories in Faith, South Dakota  See page 7
• Historical Repositories in Fort Meade, South Dakota  See page 8
• Historical Repositories in Sturgis, South Dakota  See page 23
• Meade County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Meade County Records archived at the State Archives 
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Meade County, South Dakota     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame 
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• SDMEADE-L Meade County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers

• Black Hills 1880 Bird's Eye View  Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases, 1507-2000     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Meade County      (Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas)
• Meade County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Meade County Post Offices 
• Meade County Postal Covers      ($)
• Meade County Topo Maps and Aerial Photos      (Source: Trails.com)
• Tiger Map Server Browser 

Military Records and Histories

• Alkali, NE  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Cheyenne River, Camp On The, SD (1890)  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Ellsworth Air Force Base      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Meade, Fort, SD  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• Civil War

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

• World War I

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

• World War II

  • Meade County, South Dakota  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

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

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Meade County Times      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Meade County Times-Tribune 
• Sturgis, South Dakota Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Boneita Springs, South Dakota  Sod House Photograph Collection     (Source: Wichita State University Special Collections)
• Edson, South Dakota  Sod House Photograph Collection     (Source: Wichita State University Special Collections)
• Faith, South Dakota  Sod House Photograph Collection     (Source: Wichita State University Special Collections)
• Historical Postcards of Meade County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Meade County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Meade County Historic Photos 
• Penny Postcards from South Dakota      (Source: USGenWeb South Dakota Archives)

School Records and Histories

• South Dakota School Records  1884-1938     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Faith & Area Historical Society 
• Tri-State Genealogical Society  Wyoming Montana South Dakota
• Tri-State Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (34)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Meade County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Meade County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Meade County, South Dakota     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Meade County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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