• About Us
    • Membership and Donations
  • Presentations and News Articles
    • Commercial Hotel Vilas
    • Canova Quilt Donation
    • Sheriff Bradbury
    • Argonne
    • Burbank School
    • Fedora
    • Mastodon Tusk
    • Tree-Stump Tombstones
    • Norwegian Independence Day
    • South Dakota Suffrage Movement
    • Twin Lakes
    • World War 1
    • National Suffrage Movement
    • The First "Town School"
    • History of the SD State Fair
    • Vilas
  • Family Research
    • Birth, Death and School Records
    • Genealogy Research
  • Photographs
    • Argonne
    • Canova
    • Carthage
    • Epiphany
    • Fedora
    • Howard
    • Roswell
    • Vilas
RURAL LIFE MUSEUM
  • About Us
    • Membership and Donations
  • Presentations and News Articles
    • Commercial Hotel Vilas
    • Canova Quilt Donation
    • Sheriff Bradbury
    • Argonne
    • Burbank School
    • Fedora
    • Mastodon Tusk
    • Tree-Stump Tombstones
    • Norwegian Independence Day
    • South Dakota Suffrage Movement
    • Twin Lakes
    • World War 1
    • National Suffrage Movement
    • The First "Town School"
    • History of the SD State Fair
    • Vilas
  • Family Research
    • Birth, Death and School Records
    • Genealogy Research
  • Photographs
    • Argonne
    • Canova
    • Carthage
    • Epiphany
    • Fedora
    • Howard
    • Roswell
    • Vilas

GENEALOGY RESEARCH

Ancestry.Com: The museum has purchased a subscription to Ancestry.com for use by our members. This subscription will allow members to research  their family history in the Ancestry.com website.  While there is free access to some of the Ancestry.com website, the more detailed information is only available to subscription holders.

The museum board would be happy to assist you or complete the research for you, for a small donation to the museum.  Please send an email to [email protected] for more information.

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Miner County South Dakota Genealogy Website: ​ In June 1996, a group of genealogists organized the South Dakota Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point where collected databases would be indexed and cross-linked, for all counties in South Dakota.  That way, if an individual was found in more than one county, they could be located in the index.

The website provides access to these search databases: Bibliography, Churches, Courthouse Address and Phone, Farm Directory, Homestead Records, Veterans Records, and WPA Cemetery Project, among others. 

Go to: 
http://sites.rootsweb.com/~sdminergw/index.html

South Dakota Genealogy Website: This website includes links to a variety of South Dakota resources, including South Dakota  naturalization records, Civil War Veterans, Newspaper Index, Native American Research, and county-by-county searches.  
(The Miner County link is included above.) 
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Go to: ​http://sdgenweb.com/

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Board members
Cecelia Wittmayer: President
Chloe Andenas: Vice President
Christy Stock: Secretary
Chrysti Protsch: Treasurer
Renee Forster
Justice Forster
Renee Laible
Bob Miller
​Gary Moschell
​Michele Neises
Dennis Wills
Colin Wunder


ALWAYS
FREE ADMISSION!

​ The museum is open 
when the "Open" flag is
​flying!


Extended Hours
June through December:

​Thursdays, 10-2 p.m.
Every Saturday and Sunday
1 to 4 p.m.
(except for major holidays and really inclement weather) 


Street Address:
217 South Main Street
Contact us: 
If you'd like to visit at another time, please contact us, using the information below.
Email: 
[email protected]
Mail:
PO Box 245
Howard SD 57349
Contact the MCHS President:
​605-480-0125​
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  • About Us
    • Membership and Donations
  • Presentations and News Articles
    • Commercial Hotel Vilas
    • Canova Quilt Donation
    • Sheriff Bradbury
    • Argonne
    • Burbank School
    • Fedora
    • Mastodon Tusk
    • Tree-Stump Tombstones
    • Norwegian Independence Day
    • South Dakota Suffrage Movement
    • Twin Lakes
    • World War 1
    • National Suffrage Movement
    • The First "Town School"
    • History of the SD State Fair
    • Vilas
  • Family Research
    • Birth, Death and School Records
    • Genealogy Research
  • Photographs
    • Argonne
    • Canova
    • Carthage
    • Epiphany
    • Fedora
    • Howard
    • Roswell
    • Vilas