Advanced Requests

• Newspaper article request: one individual, one date, up to two different papers, $15.

• St. Cloud City Directory: one individual or family, $15 per one-half hour.

• Stearns County Census Search Request: Territorial, State, and Federal: one individual or family,  $15 per one-half hour.

• In-depth Research Request:  Anything not otherwise    specified, $15 per one-half hour.

For photo duplication fees contact the Stearns History Museum  at (320) 253-8424 or spenick@stearns-museum.org

Weekly newspapers published in Stearns County are on microfilm up to 2008.

St. Cloud Times, 1864 to present on microfilm;  subject (1928-2008) and obituary indexes (1887 – present).

Naturalization papers for Stearns County on microfilm from 1853-1954.

Census records for Stearns County 1857, 1860, 1865, 1870 (indexed), 1875, 1880, 1885, 1895, 1900, 1905, 1910, 1920, 1930, 1940 on microfilm.

First property transfers by federal government in central Minnesota by tract description on microfilm.

Interactive index: “Luxembourg Immigrants to Stearns County, MN And Vicinity.”

“Minnesota In The Civil and Indian Wars, 1861-1865 Index to Roster of Soldiers” on microfilm.

Plat maps and books of Stearns County from 1880 to present day.

St. Cloud Directories, 1888 – 2008; 1998-2008 includes surrounding areas.

Town and parish histories.

Regional school annuals.

20,000 family history vertical files.

1,900 oral histories, indexed by subject with over 1,800 transcribed.

Miscellaneous church records.

Vertical files on local institutions, businesses, clubs, sports, transportation, etc.

Photo collections, library and archives: 22,000.

Myron Hall photo collection: 273,000.

Studio portraits: 175,000.

Slides: 1,500

Marriage Indexes 1855 – 1900 and 1904 – 1980.

Marriage Record books June 1916-June 1979.

Death Indexes 1917-1964.

Death Record books 1946-1982.

Stearns County License Center access online in Research Center. Birth Records 1870 – 1934, Death Records 1870 – 1996.