Minnesota, Veterans Grave Registration Reports - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection contains the index and images of veterans’ grave registration reports created by the Department of Veterans Affairs and held by the Minnesota Historical Society. Reports include burial applications for deceased veterans of the Civil and Indian wars, Spanish-American War, World Wars I and II, Korean War, and Vietnam War who are buried in Minnesota.

Information found on the documents includes veteran's name, date and place of enlistment, rank and organization, date and place of discharge, legal address or usual residence, birth date, death date, cause of death, name and address of next of kin, place of burial, name of cemetery, and grave location. The reports are sorted alphabetically by county, followed by separate sub-sets for Hennepin, Ramsey, and St. Louis counties and the Fort Snelling National Cemetery. These reports do not constitute a complete record of all veterans buried in Minnesota.

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The following information may be found in these records: • 2

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Research Helps
The following articles will help you research your family in the state of Minnesota.
 * Minnesota Guided Research
 * Minnesota Record Finder
 * Minnesota Research Tips and Strategies
 * Step-by-Step Minnesota Research, 1880-Present

Other FamilySearch Collections
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FamilySearch Catalog

 * Mary Hawker Bakeman, Genealogist's guide to researching Civil War and Dakota Conflict ancestors in Minnesota Roseville, Minnesota : Park Genealogical Books, c2005 FS Library 977.6 D27bm
 * Minnesota, World War I military records, 1914-1943
 * Minnesota, military records : World War I bonus application files, 1918-1943

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903
 * United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949
 * Minnesota, Military Discharge Records, ca.1917 - ca.1990
 * Minnesota, Grand Army of the Republic Membership Records, 1869-1940
 * Minnesota, World War I Records, 1918-1941
 * Minnesota, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1940-1947
 * United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890
 * United States General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934

FamilySearch Digital Library

 * prepared and published under the supervision of the Board of Commissioners, Minnesota in the Civil and Indian wars, 1861-1865 2 volumes. Saint Paul, Minnesota : Pioneer Press Co. (Minnesota), 1890-1893
 * Franklin F. Holbrook, Minnesota in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection Saint Paul, Minnesota : Minnesota War Records Commission, 1923

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