Explore your history.
Although the Historic Depot is closed for renovations, volunteer staff might be able to help with limited genealogic searches. Contact us.
When renovations are completed, the following resources will allow you to conduct self-service genealogic history searches.
Obituaries - These aren’t indexed but are stored alphabetically.
Cemeteries
Historic newspapers - Paper copies stored by year.
Photos
Compiled genealogies - Most were acquired from families who have compiled their own histories and donated a copy to RAHS. They are not indexed but are stored alphabetically in binders. Families who have shared their information with us include:
Anderson, Gaut / Baker, Anna / Tveten, Neri / Anderson, Rachel
Anderson, Magnus
Asgautsen, Ole
Bakken, John / Kristoffersdatter, Joranne
Brand, Albert (Rev) / Schiffer, Brand, Elizabeth
Brunner Family
Buerger, Otto Martin Ernst & E. M.
Bunke, Wilton
Burke Family
Cameron, Duncan & John / Brown, Emma
Christianson, Aage
Colbenson Family
Culhane Family
Dahl, Elling Peterson / Solberg, Kisten Halvorsdatter
Doli, Kristoffer Jakobsen / Elton, Marie Larsdatter
Elefson, Jacob & Marit (1600-1972)
Evavold Family
Ferden - Faerden - Farden (1704-1999)
Gjertson, Gjert / Eide, Aaste Sinnes
Glaim, Hellick - History of Medicine Co., MN 1872-1972
Hanson, Strommen, Dagne & Kittel
Highum, Herb - "This Old House"
Isberg Family
Iverson Family
Jensen, Clifford
Johns, Fred (Family & Descendants of Jacob Johns)
Johnson, Thore Thoreson Rodebakken / Sagen, Ingeborg Pedersdatter
Kjos, Johannes
Landsverk - "From Whence They Came" by Ole Landsverk
Lundblad, Thelma - "Things I Remember"
Magnussen, Gabriel / Thorson, Maria (Mangnusen)
McDermid, Archibald / Bannerman, Barbara / Nestor / McKay / Carrier / Watt
McGrath, Patrick & Susan
Moloney, Dennis Michael / Nestor, Catherine
Oian, Ole O. & Gunhild
Olson, Lars / Torgersdatter, Martha
Olstad, Ole (1 & 2) / Kinneberg
Otis, Vernon & David
Otis, Virginia - includes William Johnson, David Otis, Henry Stage, William Coolidge, Joshua Emery and Hugh Lampman families who helped settle Rushford in the early 1850s
Overland
Reishus
Reishus, Slaegten (desc. of Sondre & Ragnild)
Rui / Carlson
Rui, Karl Fransson & Roymal
Runger, Roy / Wronski, Ann M.
Rustad, Ingeborg Maria / Eriksen, Lars / Toresdatter, Inger
Sandsness, Bertha / Johnson, Severin
Sandsness, Gina / Berg, Samuel
Sheldahl, Henryson / Svendsen, Ole / Larsdatter Fossum, Maria - by Stephen A. Sheldahl
St. John Family
Stark, Harriet (Williams)
Sundby, Gunhild Marie (Olsdatter) & Knut C.
Tenborg, Albert & Ethel / Otis, David & Henry / Stage, Mary Jane
Ukestad / Ukkestad (2 books)
Walker, Hiram
Westby, Gulbrand & Maria 1869-1969