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Category : Freeborn County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Surname Index to the 1910 US Census for Freeborn County, MN
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Freeborn County (Minn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Surname Name Index to the 1910 US Census of Freeborn County, Minnesota
Author: Freeborn County Genealogical Society (Albert Lea, Minnesota)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Contains name, age, township, enumeration district, sheet, page number and line number.
Membership Directory
Author: Federation of Genealogical Societies (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Allen County Lines
Author: Surname Index of the 1870 Federal Census of St. Clair County, Michigan
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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1880 Federal Census Surname Index, Osceola County, Michigan
Author: Reed City Area Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780940133495
Category : Osceola County (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Surname Index to 1870 Federal Census of St. Clair County, Michigan
Author: St. Clair County Family History Group (Port Huron, Michigan)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
The Genealogical Helper
Author: The Big Marsh
Author: Cheri RegisterPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873519965
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Under the corn and soybean fields of southern Minnesota lies the memory of vast, age-old wetlands, drained away over the last 130 years in the name of agricultural progress. But not everyone saw wetlands as wasteland. Before 1900, Freeborn County’s Big Marsh provided a wealth of resources for the neighboring communities. Families hunted its immense flocks of migrating waterfowl, fished its waters, trapped muskrats and mink, and harvested wood and medicinal plants. As farmland prices rose, however, the value of the land under the water became more attractive to people with capital. While residents fought bitterly, powerful outside investors overrode local opposition and found a way to drain 18,000 acres of wetland at public expense. Author Cheri Register stumbled upon her great-grandfather’s scathing critique of the draining and was intrigued. Following the clues he left, she uncovers the stories of life on the Big Marsh and of the “connivers” who plotted its end: the Minneapolis land developer, his local fixer, an Illinois banker, and the lovelorn local lawyer who did their footwork. The Big Marsh, an environmental history told from a personal point of view, shows the enduring value of wild places and the importance of the fight to preserve them, both then and now.
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