Lafayette Genealogy (in Nicollet County, MN)

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NOTE: Additional records that apply to Lafayette are also found through the Nicollet County and Minnesota pages.


Lafayette Cemetery Records

Bernadotte Lutheran Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Church records, 1942-1990 (Catholic Church. St. Gregory the Great (Lafayette, Minnesota)) FamilySearch Library

Lafayette First Lutheran Church Cemetery Find a Grave online

Saint Gregory Cemetery Find a Grave online

Lafayette Census Records

Federal Census of 1940, Lafayette, Minnesota LDS Genealogy online

Lafayette Church Records

Bernadotte Lutheran Church records (in U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Church, Swedish American Church Records collection) Ancestry online

Church records, 1873-1893 (German Methodist Episcopal Church (Lafayette, Minnesota)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1878-1989 (United Methodist Church (Lafayette, Minnesota)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, 1942-1990 (Catholic Church. St. Gregory the Great (Lafayette, Minnesota)) FamilySearch Library

Church records, ca. 1825-1989 (First Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lafayette, Minnesota)) FamilySearch Library

File for First Lutheran Church (Lafayette) FamilySearch Library

File for St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church, Lafayette FamilySearch Library

Files for Clear Lake Lafayette Methodist, Lafayette United Methodist, and Lafayette Methodist churches FamilySearch Library

First Lutheran Church records (in U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Church, Swedish American Church Records collection) Ancestry online

Lafayette Newspapers and Obituaries

Lafayette Ledger, 1907, 1910, 1920, 1922, 1930, 1935, 1940, 1942, 1945, 1950, 1955, 1957, 1965, 1967-1968 Google News Archive online

Lafayette Nicollet Ledger 1973-1974, 1979-1980, 1982-1984, 1992-1994, 1997, 1999, 2002-2011 Small Town Papers online

Lafayette Nicollet Ledger, 1982, 1997, 2005-2009 Google News Archive online

Lafayette Nicollet ledger, 2015-01-01 to 2018-12-27 Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub online

Lafayette ledger, 1906-01-06 to 1914-12-26 Minnesota Digital Newspaper Hub online

Offline Newspapers for Lafayette

According to the US Newspaper Directory, the following newspapers were printed, so there may be paper or microfilm copies available. For more information on how to locate offline newspapers, see our article on Locating Offline Newspapers.

Lafayette Ledger. (Lafayette, Nicollet County, Minn.) 1904-1972

Lafayette Nicollet Ledger. (Lafayette, Minn.) 1972-Current



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