Minnesota Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Minnesota Immigration Records online
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Minnesota Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – German Americans – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – USGenWeb Project: African American Archives, at USGWA
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – German Americans – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
Minnesota Minority Records Online at the state level
Minnesota – African American – Minnesota Obits, at AG
Minnesota – African American – Minnesota Digital Archives, at MDA
Minnesota – African American – Duluth Lynchings: Background and Chronology, at MHS
Minnesota – African American – African Americans in Minnesota, at MP
Minnesota – African American – T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History, at LSU
Minnesota – African American – Minnesota Black History Project, at MHS
Minnesota – African American – Our Gathering Places Oral History Project, at MHS
Minnesota – African American – Rondo Oral History Project, at MHS
Minnesota – African American – Oral History Interview with Nettie Sherman, at MHS
Minnesota – African American – Oral History Interviews with S. Edward Hall, at MHS
Minnesota – African American – Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars: 1861-1861. St. Paul, Minnesota: Pioneer Press Company, 1890., at IA
Minnesota – Chinese Americans – Minnesota, Chinese Exclusion Act case files, 1906-1942, at FS
Minnesota – Minorities – Saga of Setesdals Laget, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Minnesota Native Americans, 1823, at Anc$
Minnesota – Native American – Minnesota Native Americans, 1851, at Anc$
Minnesota – Native American – Minnesota, Indian Allotment Records, 1888-1919, at Anc$
Minnesota – Native American – Iron Range Research Center, at IRRC
Minnesota – Native American – Agency records, 1876-1953, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Agency records, 1893-1955, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Annuity payrolls, 1890-1930, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Area office records, 1938-1950, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Census of Cass & Winnebago Lake Pillagers of Chippewa Indians in Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, 1899-1902, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Census of Leech Lake Pillagers Band of Chippewa Indians in Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, 1899-1902, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Census of Red Cliff Band of Chippewa Indians in Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, 1899-1906, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Census of Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians in Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, 1899-1902, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Census of Sandy Lake & White Oak Band of Chippewa Indians in Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, 1899-1902, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Census of the Chippewa Indians, 1925-1938, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Census of White Oak Pointe Mississippi Band of Chippewa Indians in Leech Lake Agency, Minnesota, 1899-1902, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Chippewa customs, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Death certificates for Red Lake Indian Agency, 1915-1932, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Birch Cooley Agency, 1891-1893 and 1895-1898, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Flandreau, 1892-1939, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Fond du Lac, 1910-1920, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Grand Portage, 1912-1921, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Known military and civilian dead during the Minnesota Sioux Indian Massacre in 1862 ; known dead during the great blizzard in … : Minnesota centennial memorial, 1858-1958, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Land tenure of the Rainy Lake Chippewa at the beginning of the 19th century, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Marriage licenses, 1902-1922, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Records of the Minnesota Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1856, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Records of the United States attorneys and marshall for the District of Minnesota, 1889-1917, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Relationship certifications for share disbursement, 1911-1935, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – School census, 1922-1927, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – School records, 1894-1952, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – A social study of one hundred fifty Chippewa Indian families of the White Earth Reservation of Minnesota, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Thrilling incidents of the Indian war of 1862 : being a personal narrative of the outrages and horrors witnessed by Mrs. L. Eastlick in Minnesota, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Chippewa and Dakota Indians : a subject catalog of books, pamphlets, periodical articles, and manuscripts in the Minnesota Historical Society, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – A history of the great massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota : including the personal narratives of many who escaped, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Papers, undated and 1843, 1896-1938, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – A history of the great massacre by the Sioux Indians, in Minnesota : including the personal narratives of many who escaped, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Indians of the Great Lakes area, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Narrative of the march of Morgan’s Mounted Volunteers from Fort Atkinson, Iowa, to Long Prairie, Minnesota guarding removal of the Winnebago Indians, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – The Sioux outbreak in the year 1862 : with notes of missionary work among the Sioux, at FS
Minnesota – Native American – Ta-ma-ha, at FS
Minnesota Minority Records Online at the local level
Duluth – African American – Duluth Lynchings: Background and Chronology, at MHS
Flandreau, SD – Native American – Indian census rolls, Flandreau, 1892-1939, at FS
Pipestone – Native American – School records, 1894-1952, at FS
Leech Lake Agency – Native American – Marriage licenses, 1902-1922, Bureau of Indian Affairs, at FS
Minneapolis – Minorities – My Minneapolis : a Chronicle of What Has Been Learned and Observed About the Norwegians in Minneapolis Through One Hundred Years, at FS
Minneapolis – Minorities – Minneapolis Minnen : Kulturhistorisk Axplockning Frän Qvarnstaden Vid Mississippi, at FS
Red Lake Agency – Native American – Marriage licenses, 1902-1922, Bureau of Indian Affairs, at FS
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