Granville School 1938
Clarence Cross on Main St.

Research Your

Family's Story!

For Granville History
see: Granville History Page

Centennial Logo
Granville Bank, built with Denbigh Brick Factory rock, opened 1903 & now on the National Historic Registry.
Centennial News
and Events!

This web page is intended to help you research your family's history.

Here are some suggestions to assist you in generating different ideas for sharing your family’s story. History can be found in many different places.


Your Family

History Links

2. Organize

3. Preserve

Centennial Home

Granville Home

Paper and Pen
 Written history

Diaries, Family Bibles, letters or postcards may be submitted (or copied) containing family stories and history to the Granville Centennial History Committee. Organizational notes can also be used.
Type-written letters or documents

Documents such as birth certificates, baptismal records, school papers, graduation announcements, wedding announcements, letters, deeds and any other “official” documents may be submitted to the history committee.
An old fashioned manual typewriter

Granville History Page

  A rolled up newspaper Newspaper, magazines and other periodicals

Family stories and events appearing in the newspaper, magazine or organizational publications, are a good source of family history for collecting and submitting. Church bulletins, public notices, and other "unofficial" documents may be submitted to the history committee.

Main Street North, Granville, N. Dak. Following the discovery of a gold nugget in the craw of a goose, there were seven active mines in McHenry County. There is gold in the sand, but there is no method of separating the gold from the bort. When the streets of Granville were paved the newspaper ran the headline, "Granville Streets Paved with Gold."
  
Audio-Visual Recordings

Photographs, audio tapes or video recordings are a good source of family or organizational history. These may be copied or transcribed for submission. Pictures are always an interesting source for appreciating history, “as it was”.

Tape or Digital Recorder

Main Street North, 1908

1930 Headline:
"Granville Streets Paved With Gold"

Keyboarding on a computer Computer files and email

Preservation may be done with computer files or emails. Files may be printed out, on removable saved on computer storage medium or emailed to your famiy.