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South Dakota
Genealogy & Family History Resources
Capital: Pierre
Territory: 1861 Statehood:
1889
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| Birth,
Death, Marriage, & Divorce Records |
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| Census,
Voter and Tax Records |
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| Cemeteries
& Burial Records |
- South
Dakota Cemetery Records Search
The South Dakota State Archives provides a searchable
database that includes records that were cataloged as
part of the WPA Cemetery Project (pre-1940s) plus any
cemetery updates that their office has received. It is
not a complete listing of all the burials in South Dakota.
- Cemeteries
of South Dakota
Interment.net is a publisher
of cemetery transcriptions for use by genealogists and
local historians. Search and browse cemetery burial records
from thousands of cemeteries across the world.
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Dakota Political Graveyard
PoliticalGraveyard.com:
The website that tells where the dead politicians are
buried
- South
Dakota Cemeteries
Cemetry Records Guide: A Guide to Finding Cemetery
Records and Databases on the Internet
- Find
A Grave By State - South Dakota
FindAGrave.com: Find the
graves of ancestors, create virtual memorials, add 'virtual
flowers' and a note to a loved one's grave, etc. See the
graves of thousands of famous people from around the world.
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Dakota Tombstone Transcription Project
USGenWeb: Volunteers transcribe
tombstone inscriptions and have that work archived for
the future and made easily accessible to all.
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Dakota Gravestones Project
SouthDakotaGravestones.org: The mission of this
project is to capture digital images of gravestones of
our ancestors.
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| Obituary
& Newspaper Articles |
- Naturalization
Records Index
South Dakota State Archives
- South
Dakota Newspaper Articles
Chronicling America is a long-term effort to develop
an Internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers
with descriptive information and select digitization of
historic pages.
- Search
South Dakota State Newspapers
Use the online search tool to search newspapers archived
at the South Dakota State Archives by city, county, date,
newspaper title, or roll number if known.
- South
Dakota Newspaper Surname Index
Use this online form to search for South Dakota state
newspaper records by Surname at the South Dakota State
Archives.
- South
Dakota Obituary Search
ObituaryDatabase.com: This guide to South Dakota
obituary records was created to provide genealogists with
access to the best South Dakota obituary databases from
a single web page.
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Dakota Newspaper Abstracts
NewspaperAbstracts.com is your resource for family
history research using newspapers. Our site continues
to grow with over 1,100 new pages added each month and
currently contains 83857 pages of abstracts and extracts
from historical newspapers.
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Dakota Obituaries Project
A USGenWeb Archives Special
Project
- Obituary
Collection

Ancestry.com: This database is a compilation of
obituaries published in U.S. newspapers, collected from
various online sources.
- Read
Historic Newspapers Online

Ancestry.com: Read history as it was happening
in more than 16 million pages from over 1000 different
newspapers across the US, U.K. and Canada dating back
to the 1700's.
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| Immigration
& Naturalization Records |
- South
Dakota Migrations Project
They came for a season, they left and went where?
Why did they go and who went with them? So many questions
about the migrations of our ancestors.
- South
Dakota Immigration and Naturalization Project
A USGenWeb Special Archives Special Project: The
primary purpose of this project is to provide transcriptions
of public domain indexes and records.
- South
Dakota Naturalization and Citizenship Records and Substitutes
NaturalizationRecords.com: Search for your
ancestors in free Naturalization Records in U.S.A. and
Canada. Find Declarations of Intent, First Papers, Alien
Registrations, Passport Applications, Naturalization Petitions
and Citizenship Certificates. Search substitute naturalization
records - ships passenger lists, census records, oaths
of allegiance, voters registration lists and more!
- Passenger
and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

Updated annually, this database is an index to passengers
who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the
1500s through the 1900s. It contains listings of appr0oximately
4,588,000 individuals and references thousands of different
records compiled from everything from original passenger
lists to personal diaries. For each individual listed,
you may find the following information: name, age, year
and place of arrival, and the source of the record.
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| Land
Records & Maps |
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| Church
& Bible Records |
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| Court,
Wills & Probate Records |
- South
Dakota Court Records
PublicRecordsInfo.com:
Contact information and/or links to websites containing
resources to help in a search for South Dakota court records.
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| City
& Farm Directories |
- Search
City & Farm Directories
Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized
images available with fee-based subscription
Ancestry.com ~ Free Trial Available
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& Family History Resources |
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| Biographies,
Correspondence & Diaries |
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| Occupations,
Education & Institutions |
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| Ethnic
Genealogy Resources |
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| History
& Culture |
- South
Dakota History
South Dakota Travel
- South
Dakota Penny Postcards Collection
USGenWeb Archives Penny Postcards Project
These postcards cost 1˘ to mail. Postage was temporarily
raised to 2˘ from 1917 to 1919 to cover the cost of World
War I & from 1925 to 1928. All of the cards shown on this
site are in the hands of private collectors.
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