• Contact for vital records:
Department of Health
Vital Records Office
207 E. Missouri, Suite 1-A
Pierre, SD 57501
(605) 773-4961
doh.sd.gov/vitalrecords
- Andreas’ Historical Atlas of Dakota
- Cyndi’s List: South Dakota
- Digital Library of South Dakota
- South Dakota Digital Archives
- South Dakota GenWeb Project
Resources
• Grave Records of Minnehaha County Cemeteries (Sioux Valley Genealogical Society)
• History of South Dakota by Doane Robinson (B.F. Bowen & Co.)
• History of South Dakota by Herbert Samuel Schell and John E. Miller (South Dakota State Historical Society Press)
• A New South Dakota History edited by Harry F. Thompson (Center for Western Studies)
• The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century Reader edited by Richmond L. Clow (South Dakota State Historical Society)
• South Dakota History: An Annotated Bibliography by Herbert T. Hoover and Karen P. Zimmerman (Greenwood Press)
Organizations and Archives
• Augustana College Center for Western Studies
2001 S. Summit Ave., Sioux Falls, SD 57197, (800) 727-2844
2312 E. Bannister Road, Kansas City, MO 64131, (816) 268-8000
• Pierre-Fort PierreGenealogical Society
Box 925, Pierre, SD 57501
• Sioux Valley Genealogical Society
200 W. Sixth St., Sioux Falls, SD 57104
• South Dakota Genealogical Society
Box 1101, Pierre, SD 57501
900 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501, (605) 773-3804
• South Dakota State Historical Society
900 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501, (605) 773-3458
Mercedes MacKay Building, 800 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501, (800) 423-6665
• University of South Dakota I.D. Weeks Library
414 E. Clark St., Vermillion, SD 57069, (605) 677-5373
From the October/November 2017 Family Tree Magazine.