Lawrence County, South Dakota:
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Projects

• Lawrence County SD      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Lawrence County, South Dakota      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)

Adjacent counties

• Butte County, SD  to the north
• Crook County, WY  to the west
• Meade County, SD  to the east
• Pennington County, SD  to the south
• Weston County, WY  to the southwest

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

• Lawrence Co, South Dakota, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Lawrence County Biographies      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Lawrence County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)

Blogs

• Historical Marker  The On-Line Newsletter of the Lawrence County (SD) Historical Society

Cemeteries (10)

Census Records and Indexes (15)

Church Records

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Church Records, 1826-1945  includes Astoria, South Dakota     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Court and Legal Records

• Lawrence County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)
• South Dakota Clerks of Courts, 1889-1989  Lawrence County on page 19

Estate Records

• North Dakota and South Dakota Wills and Probate Records, 1878-1928  includes Lawrence County, South Dakota     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

History (50)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• South Dakota County Naturalization Records  1865-1972     (Source: FamilySearch)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of South Dakota locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Lawrence County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Lawrence County Genealogy Resources  South Dakota Department of Health
• Lawrence County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)

Land Records

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

Libraries, Museums, Archives (13)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• SDLAWREN Lawrence County genealogy

  • SDLAWREN Mailing List Homepage      (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)     ($)
• Individual County Chronologies  Lawrence County     (Source: The Newberry Library)
• Lawrence County  included in "A history of the origin of the place names connected with the Chicago & North Wetern and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railways"     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Lawrence County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Lawrence County Post Offices 
• Lawrence County Postal Covers      ($)
• Lawrence County Sanborn Maps      (Source: The Library of Congress)

Military Records and Histories

• Collins, Gh, Camp, Dak Terr  Returns from U.S. Military Posts, 1800-1916     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Lawrence County, Dakota Territory     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Lawrence County     (Source: FamilySearch)

• World War I

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

Miscellaneous Data

• General Federation of Women's Clubs Pioneer Daughters  Lawrence County
• Lawrence County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records (13)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Black Hills Pioneer  Spearfish, South Dakota
• Lead Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Obituary search includes Black Hills Pioneer  Spearfish     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Obituary search includes Lawrence County Centennial  Deadwood, SD     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Obituary search includes The Lawrence County Centennial      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Spearfish Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Spearfish, South Dakota Newspaper Obituaries      (Source: GenealogyBank)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images (14)

School Records and Histories

• Deadwood School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Lead School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Rural America - a Social and Educational History of Ten Communities  includes Lead-Deadwood, South Dakota     (Source: Internet Archive)
• School Records, 1879-1970      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• South Dakota School Records  1879-1970     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Spearfish School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies

• Black Hills Society of South Dakota 
• Deadwood History 
• Deadwood History      (Source: Facebook)
• Tri-State Genealogical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (116)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Lawrence County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Lawrence County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Lawrence County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Lawrence County, South Dakota     (Source: Google Patents)
• Report on Some of the Leading Mining Claims of the Whitewood Mining District  in the Black Hills, Lawrence County, Dakota     (Source: Google Books)

Vital Records

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

Wiki

• Lawrence County, South Dakota Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

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