The Dalby Database is sponsored by the Owatonna Public Library in Minnesota and has helpful online databases for free Minnesota genealogy research.

Free collections include:

• Online Minnesota Cemetery database (Goodhue County, Rice County Steele County)

• Civil War Database (26,000 names of those who put Rice in County box)

• Minnesota Census Database (1900 Rice County Census)

• Minnesota City Directories Database (Rice County, Steele County, MN Business)

• Birth Records Database

• Minnesota Marriage Records Database

• Newspaper Articles Database (Rice County Newspaper articles)

• Minnesota People (names extracted from books about MN and some counties)

• Minnesota Church Records (11 Norwegian and 1 Swedish Church, over 24,000 entries)

• Minnesota Obituaries Search (starting in 1858 from many counties)

• and more