About a month ago, I came across Genealogy Trails.com and because this website wants to put as much of the original records online for "free" research for those of us who can't afford to buy subscriptions to places like Ancestry.com and others that I decided I would volunteer to help them. So I contacted Marla Zwakman and I have been transcribing records for them ever since. Some of the history is very interesting, some amusing stories are told, and a lot of facts are put down. Someone took time to record about their state, counties, and local areas with much detail in many of them. It is worthwhile to read these histories because they did relate names and sometimes biographies of the people of a town and even genealogies of some. I am going to list some URL's of the things I have transcribed and that have been posted on GT for everyone's benefit. I hope to be able to list many of them here and these URL's will also take you to the original GT, so that this cannot be considered posting on my own website the information listed in them.

http://www.genealogytrails.com/

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/steele/history_military.htm

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/2ndreg_cw_casualtyreports.htm

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/dodge/history_townships.htm

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/cottonwood/history_military.htm

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/morrison/history_book.htm#bench&bar

http://genealogytrails.com/minn/goodhue/bios.html