We are currently working on the third annual cemetery walk at Oak Grove Cemetery in Fergus Falls. The tour will be held on Tuesday, May 29, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Oak Grove is the largest and one of the oldest cemeteries in Otter Tail County. Tours will begin as people arrive. Admission is still only [...]
We are now subscribing to Ancestry Library Edition, a collection of more than 4,000 genealogical databases including over 2 billion names. Ancestry provides U.S. Federal Census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; a Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index; Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes); [...]
I met with Marian Rengel, Outreach Coordinator for the Minnesota Digital Library Coalition, yesterday to discuss the possibility of our participation in Phase 3 of “Minnesota Reflections”. Check out the Minnesota Digital Library and specifically the images that we have submitted so far, and give us some suggestions as to which kind of images you [...]
Museum Days InvitationThe theme of Museum Days 2007 is Key Ingredients: It’s All About Food. We still have a couple of slots open so if you have a class of 3rd-6th graders that you would like to bring email me at kevavold@otchs.org -Kathy Evavold
On April 16 I presented a Community Education class in Ashby, MN with Patty Benson from Grant County Historical Society on the genealogical resources available both here at the Otter Tail County Historical Society and in Grant County which is located in Elbow Lake, MN. OTCHS offers a similar class through Fergus Falls Community Education [...]
