Otter Tail County Volunteers

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 Hello, my name is John Nelson and I am the volunteer coordinator for Otter Tail County in the Minnesota GenWeb Project. I live in Alexandria, Virginia but I was born in Fergus Falls and my Great-Grandfather and his brothers were pioneers in Parkers Prairie. For more about me and my own genealogy you can visit my personal home page.

 History of this web site

  • Dec 2002 - Added page for stories
  • Feb 2002 - Lory Brasel finished township histories.
  • Dec 2001 - Karen Terry extracted names for each township.
  • July 2001 - Rootsweb revised Genconnect Boards.
  • Apr 2000 - Jan Sedore began managing Genconnect Boards.
  • Mar 1999 - Added biographiy and obituary pages.
  • Jan 1999 - Pages reorganized and rewritten to make links more logical
  • Dec 1998 - Lory Brasel added biographies from New York Mills
  • Sep 1998 - Lory Brasel began transcribing township histories
  • Feb 1998 - Rootsweb developed new system for queries
  • Jan 1998 - Started pages for townships
  • Jul 1997 - Jan Sedore started adding names from Perham newspapers
  • Apr 1997 - Jan Sedore started to do lookups
  • Dec 1996 - Initial Otter Tail page put on the Internet
  • Jul 1996 - Initial Minnesota page put on the Internet
  • May 1996 - GenWeb project started in Kentucky