We should remember to keep an eye on FamilySearch! They added 13 million new indexed records in September, including more than 690,000 Minnesota county death records from 1850-2001.

Among the new records I found Alice Hickey, wife of my husband's great-uncle Bartholomew. Her death is not indexed in the Minnesota Historical Society database. As I recall I found her 1908 death date through cemetery records at Dalbydata.com, one of my original favorite Minnesota research sites.

However I hadn't researched Alice Hickey in the Waseca County death register, which can now be queried and viewed at FamilySearch. To my surprise, the names of Alice's parents are recorded there: Henry and Alice O'Brien.

Will this fact be important? Who knows? It opens up other sideways avenues to research.

Read more about the extensive addition of records at the FamilySearch blog.