Polk County is located in northwestern Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Polk county to the north; Mahnomen county to the east; Becker and Clay counties to the south; and the North Dakota counties of Traill and Cass to the west.

• Norman County, Minnesota
  
• City of Ada, Minnesota
• History of Ada, Norman County, Minnesota.
• Local Catholic Church History & Genealogy Research Guide & Worldwide Directory +
• +  Minnesota* + Page (Norman County is within the Catholic Diocese of Crookston).
• Ada City Library
     107 4th Ave. E - Ada, MN 56510  Phone: (218) 784-4480.
• Norman County Court Administrator
   16 3rd Ave. E - Ada, MN 56510  Phone: (218) 784-7131.
• Norman County Deputy Registrar
  
   16 3rd Ave. E - Ada, MN 56510  Phone: (218) 784-4422.
• Norman County Public Health
  
    16 3rd Ave. E - Ada, MN 56510  Phone: (218) 784-7499.
• Norman County Recorder
    16 3rd Ave. E - Ada, MN 56510  Phone: (218) 784-4422.
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Department of Health
• How to order a birth or death certificate from the Minnesota Department of Health.
Contact the Minnesota Department of Health for certified Birth records from 1900 and certified Death records from 1908.  Certificates may be ordered by mail, phone, fax, and in person at the office.  There is a fee for obtaining birth or death certificates.
Minnesota Department of Health
  Attention: Vital Records
  717 Delaware Street Southeast
  P.O. Box 9441
  Minneapolis, MN  55440-9441
  Phone: 612-676-5120 (For birth records, press 4; For death records, press 5)
Records prior to these years, may be requested from the County  Registrar/Recorder in the county where the event occurred.
• Instructions on obtaining certificates of marriage or divorce decrees and index search.
• MN Dept. of Health list of County Registrars/Recorders: choose county

School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.
 
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