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Here are some of our favorite research, local history, informational and just plain cool sites.

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Genealogy
Clay County Recorder's Page. For copies of birth, death and marriage records.
Minnesota Historical Society's Death Records Index. Statewide index to all deaths between 1908 and 1996. Extremely handy!
Red River Valley Genealogy Society.
North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies. Great resource for Fargo and North Dakota genealogy.
Northwest Minnesota Historical Center. Minnesota State University-Moorhead's Archives and research center.
Homestead Records. Did your ancestors homestead? You can search for them here and print out or order a copy of the certificate.
Minnesota Genweb Project. Great for genealogists. See especially the Clay County section.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites. Darn near comprehensive listing of where to look for what.
Digitalarkivet. The Norwegian National Archives' site of searchable databases of census, emigration and lots of other records.
Minnesota Death Index 1905-1996. Index to all Minnesota Deaths recorded by the stat health department. More years to be added.
Minnesota Birth Index 1900-1911. Index to recorded Minnesota births. More years to be added.
North Dakota Death Index 1900 to the present. Index to all recorded North Dakota deaths since 1900. Early years incomplete.
Norway Heritage. Want to find the ship on which your ancestors came to America? Check here.

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Local Information
Clay County Government Site.
City of Moorhead.
City of Barnesville.
City of Felton.
Fargo-Moorhead Convention and Visitors' Bureau.
Chamber of Commerce of Fargo-Moorhead.
Lake Agassiz Regional Library System.
Fargo Public Library.
Minnesota State University at Moorhead.
Concordia College.

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Groups/Organizations/Events
Hjemkomst Center. We share our home with lots of fine folks. See what else goes on under the big tent!
Minnesota Historical Society.
Heritage-Hjemkomst Interpretive Center. Home of the replica viking ship Hjemkomst, Stave Church and one of our neighbors in the Hjemkomst Center.
Otter Tail County Historical Society. Our neighbors to the southeast.
Bonanzaville, USA. Cass County [ND] Historical Society's pioneer village and museum. Our neighbors to the west.
Becker County Historical Society. Our neighbors to the east.
Western Minnesota Steam Threshers' Reunion. Every labor Day weekend at Rollag, MN the big machine come out - and more!
Barnesville Potato Days. 'Tators rule! Great community festival every August.

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Other Cool Sites
Clay County Geographical Information System (GIS) site. Online property ownership maps, aerial photos and more!
Dr. Don Schwert's Pages. Don's a North Dakota State University geology professor with lots of cool pages about our unique Red River Valley geology. Especially cool are the Fargo Flood Home Page and The Stockwood Fill, "the bizarre story of the construction of a railroad grade" in Clay County.
Fargo North Dakota: Its History and Images. John Caron's postcard photos of our neighbor across the Red River.
James Lilek's Fargo Page. A syndicated columnist's loving homage to his hometown.
USDA Aerial Photos 1930s. See what your farm, house or town looked like from above in the 1930s.

 

 

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