“As I told my children growing up, ‘You’ve got to know where you came from to know where you’re at right now and where you’re going to, bottom line.’ You’ve got to know where you came from and the museum’s a good place to do that.” Those were the words shared by Cheatham County Historical …
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The Civil War “Soldiers and Sailors” System is No Longer Supported.
Researchers have long relied on the National Park Service’s online “Soldiers and Sailors Database” to search for Civil War ancestors. Many of those same researchers have discovered, however, that there are significant problems with that system and the search results are often unreliable. Now the NPS has officially abandoned the effort to resolve those problems and …
Minnesota Museum Launches Online Newspaper Archive
Searching local newspapers from the early days of Pipestone County recently became easier. The Pipestone County Museum launched a digital newspaper archive in February that can be accessed through the museum’s website, at pipestonecountymuseum.com, at no cost to users. For now, the archive has all copies of all newspapers published in Pipestone County from 1879 to …