Genealogy/History Online Databases
Full-text biographical articles from hundreds of periodicals. Search for people based on one or more personal facts such as birth and death year, nationality, ethnicity, occupation or gender.
Subscription purchased with funding from Rochester/Olmsted County property taxes.
Search and read newspapers from 1900 - 1910 and find information about newspapers published from 1690 to present
Over 25,000 family and local history books can be viewed online, and are searchable by every word in the text. Persi, the periodical source index, gives a subject index to over 6,500 genealogy & local history periodicals. Complete US census images from 1790-1930 can be browsed, or searched by name for selected years. Revolutionary War pension file documents
Subscription purchased with funding from Friends of the Rochester Public Library.
Search indexes for obituaries, weddings, probate records, census information, military history of persons in Olmsted County
- index to MN births from 1900-1929
MN Historical Society's index to Minnesota death records.Currently, this database indexes the death cards from 1904 to 1907 and the death certificates from 1908 to 2001
Searchable pdf articles of entire newspaper from 1851-2003
