Welcome to

FALL RIVER COUNTY

South Dakota

Fall River County website needs a New volunteer to become the New Coordinator. If interested please contact Linda Ziemann, using the email found below:

SDGenWeb State Coordinator - Linda Ziemann

 

 

 

• Fall River County History
  
• Fall River County Links
  
• Fall River County Inquiries (read queries sent from other visitors)
  
• Fall River County Query
  
• Fall River County Lookup (volunteers)
  
• Fall River County Directory
  
• Fall River County Genealogy NEWS
  
• Fall River County MAP
  
• Fall River County FUN page (just for fun only)
  
  • Fall River County Picture Page
  • Cleaver Biography (a wonderul, pioneer biography of the James Eddy Cleaver family)
    
• NEW! Fall River County Teachers in 1913 (a list of all the county's teachers in 1913)
• Fall River County Early Settlers in Township 8S, Range 5E (one small section of Fall River Co. listing homesteaders and land owners from the early years) -3/02-xxs`1xza
  • MAP FOR ABOVE -- Township 8S - range 5E

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• Fall River County Historical Society
  • Fall River County's brief but rich western history is being preserved by the Fall River County Historical Society and their artifact collections are on display at the Pioneer Museum in Hot Springs. The museum is open daily to the public, Monday through Saturday from May 15th until October 15th. Please come visit, and be sure tell them "Old Stu" sent you.
    
    
• Books by Peggy Sanders -- Local Fall River author offers several area history books. Sanders also write the 90-Years Ago column for the Hot Springs Star newspaper.
  
• 100 Year S.D. Birth Record Search Site. Site contains information from birth records with birth dates of over 100 years of age as required by South Dakota Codified Law 34-25-8. At this time this site contains 114,195 records.
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• EVERGREEN CEMETERY -- Hot Springs, S.D. This is a site being prepared by our Fall River friend, Jodi Sides, and her helper, Stacey Martin. As of October 2001, she has two sections of the cemetery ready and searchable online, and plans to add more. I found several of my ancestors already listed on this site. Please go visit it, and tell Jodi THANKS! -- editors note: more sections added May 2002 --
  
• HOT SPRING National Cemetery records ONLINE (U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs Database
  
• Edgemont Cemetery
  
• Fairview Cemetery (Oral, So. Dak.)
  
• HOT SPRING STAR obituary look-ups
  
• SDGENWEB Archives for Fall River (includes: biographies, and some nice local area business directories from the early 1900's)
  
• Hot Springs, S.D. a very nice site sponsored by the Hot Springs Area Chamber of Commerce
  
• Historical books available for Igloo and Ardmore Please see NEWS page for information
  
• Edgemont, S.D. another Fall River town site sponsored by the local area chamber of commerce
  
• Fall River County Biographies
  
• Hot Springs High School Alumni Page
  • NOTE: This Hot Springs alumni (formerly called "Reunion") site contains many lists (1000's) of names of people and addresses going back into the '30's. Someone looking for a surname, could easily tap into a wealth of addresses and dates and contacts there.
    

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Joy Fisher, South Dakota's State Coordinator, Emeritus ,
has a web site devoted to Native American Genealogy.
Please check this new resource out.

• World War I veterans from South Dakota --
  • here is a list honoring the men who gave their lives in WWI
    
• US census Bureau - Fall River Co., SD
• • includes TIGER map
    
• South Dakota County Andrea's Atlas
  
• The State of South Dakota Information Network
  
• South Dakota GenWeb
  
• USGenWeb
  
• Social Security Death Index Online Research Database
  
• The Library of Congress
  • A great place for maps. Also includes Viet Nam MIA/POW Database.