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“I’ll see you in hell”: Delightful Works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Various Special Collections” will be presented at 3:30 Tuesday by Sandra Donaldson in the UND Chester Fritz Library.
Monday, February, 14, 2011 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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UND’s special collections department has received a scrapbook detailing the history of the North Dakota Ballet Company in commemoration of the ballet company’s 50th anniversary.
Monday, February, 07, 2011 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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A day after the Minnesota Department of Health warned residents that skin-lightening products contained dangerous levels of mercury, authorities in Hennepin County said the products are hazardous waste and should be brought to special collection sites.
Friday, May, 27, 2011 - - News
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Everyone has a story to tell and pass along. Someone out there will be interested, said Curt Hanson, an archivist who heads the Department of Special collections at UND’s Chester Fritz Library.
Sunday, November, 28, 2010 - Grand Forks Herald - Community
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Former senator will speak to classes, visit future home of his congressional papers
The Byron L. Dorgan Papers will be housed at the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections in the university’s Chester Fritz Library.
Wednesday, March, 30, 2011 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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Matt Dunlevy, 24, a UND history graduate student from Shoreview, Minn., has organized a campus chess tournament in memory of Elwyn Robinson, who taught history at UND from 1935 to 1970 and died in 1985. Games will be played Sunday at the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at UND’s Chester Fritz Library.
Tuesday, April, 10, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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When news of the Flood of 1997 reached the East Coast the people of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Long Branch, N.J., took up a special collection for their namesake church in Grand Forks. So this Sunday, St. Michaels of Grand Forks is forming a collection for the same New Jersey church recently hit by Hurricane Sandy.
Tuesday, November, 06, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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Dickinson State University has completed digitizing more than 250,000 Theodore Roosevelt documents held by the Library of Congress.
Thursday, August, 20, 2009 - - News
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So if you’re thinking about embarking on a journey through the generations, be prepared to spend a while visiting many sites along the way.
“For many people, gathering their family’s history is a life-long endeavor,” says Sandy Slater, head of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections at UND’s Chester Fritz Library. Often people will start researching, stop for some reason, and then begin again.
“I’m always sort of looking for the next little piece,” says Slater, who has done extensive research on her own family’s history. It’s OK to take a break now and then.
“Sometimes when you set it aside and think about it, you might have a flash,” Slater says.
Getting started
One of the best places people can begin the search for their ancestors is in their own homes — with themselves.
“They need to start with themselves and go backwards,” Slater says. Filling out a “pedigree” chart is the simplest way to do that and helps the researcher find out where the “holes” are in the family history, Slater notes.
Family Bibles and records of milestone events such as baptisms, funeral notices and obituaries are helpful resources for filling in the blanks of the chart, Slater says.
“(They are) things that you and I may hold,” she says. If those items aren’t available in your own home, they probably will be in another family member’s.
“There usually is a keeper of the records of the family,” she notes.
Libraries
Once some information has been compiled, libraries that specialize in historic research, such as UND’s Department of Special Collections, have experts who are available to help family historians get started, and have an abundance of information sources available.
The Chester Fritz Library’s Department of Special Collections, for example, has published a directory called a “Guide to Norwegian Bygdeboker.” The guide lists the holdings of the library’s holdings of the more than 1,000 volumes in its Bygdebok Collection.
The library also has school records, marriage and coroner records for Grand Forks County. Another good place to look for information is newspapers, Slater says. Area obituaries printed in North Dakota’s major newspapers are available to researchers who visit her department. Other sources
Meanwhile, there’s also a wealth of information in small-town newspapers, Slater says. The State Historical Society of North Dakota has early copies of those available.
The State Historical Society has issues on hand from Dakota Territory as early as 1864 and many from 1872 to the present, according to the society’s Web site. Newspaper titles may be searched using the Online Dakota Information Network or by going to the society’s Web site and clicking on the county in which it was published, then selecting the city or town, the Web site information says.
The newspapers are arranged alphabetically by title, and the listings include microfilm roll numbers for interlibrary loan requests.
People who are comfortable with using a computer also can conduct research on family history online, Slater says.
“We have three public computers. We can sit with people and instruct them.” A data-based Web site called “WorldCat,” which many public libraries subscribe to, for example, will give researchers information on whether there already has been work published on that particular family’s history.
Collecting information about family history is not an easy job, but it can be rewarding.
“It does take perseverance and persistence.
“When you discover something unexpectedly, it just gives you a little boost and makes it all worthwhile, and gives you motivation to find the next little piece of the puzzle,” Slater says.
Ann Bailey writes for Recollections. Reach her by phone at (701) 787-6753, (800) 477-6572, ext. 753 or e-mail her at abailey@gfherald.com.
Tuesday, April, 10, 2007 - HISTORY: An abundance of information is available to help find your roots - Community
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Gov. Hoeven announced today Dickinson State University will receive $8.8 million in state aid for renovation and expansion of its library.
Wednesday, January, 13, 2010 - - News
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When searching for rare art on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus, most turn to the aesthetic grandeur of the Weisman Art Museum. But some of the university’s rarest art lies buried beneath 90 feet of shale and limestone across the Mississippi River.
Sunday, October, 25, 2009 - - Entertainment
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Terry Shoptaugh, author of the new book, "They Were Ready: The 164th Infantry in the Pacific War," will be at the Chester Fritz Library tonight at 7 p.m. to sign autographs and give a reading.
Monday, April, 26, 2010 - Grand Forks Herald - None
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Papers will be available for public inspection
UND’s Chester Fritz Library will be the official depository for documents from Sen. Byron Dorgan’s 30 years in Congress, the university announced Tuesday after the senator signed an agreement in his Washington office.
Wednesday, December, 15, 2010 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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An East Grand Forks priest is being accused of theft of personal property and misappropriation of donations for Africa.
Wednesday, February, 08, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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UND students returned Friday after three weeks living and working at the Brazil Field School with the indigenous Xukuru people of northeastern Brazil.
Sunday, June, 10, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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Jose Alaniz spent about a week sorting and packing each comic book — carefully, lovingly. There were 12 boxes of them, comics he'd collected since his mother bought him his first one at age 6.
Sunday, October, 03, 2010 - Associated Press - News
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“André Kertész: Shadow Marks,” an exhibit of 35 black and white photographs by Hungarian artist André Kertész, has opened at the Winnipeg Art Gallery and will continue through Sept. 9.
Saturday, March, 05, 2011 - - Entertainment
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Two organizations have teamed up to raise money for those suffering from the severe famine affecting millions in Somalia.
Tuesday, August, 30, 2011 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Grand Forks is sending a hurricane-stricken namesake parish in New Jersey more than $15,000 “and the prayers of 1,000 parishioners,” the Rev. Gerard Braun said Tuesday.
Wednesday, November, 14, 2012 - Grand Forks Herald - News
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The late wife of UND alum and benefactor Chester Fritz finished a long trip from Monaco on Thursday to be interred beside her husband in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Grand Forks.
Friday, June, 15, 2007 - Herald Staff Writer - News
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