WHCPA Archives
WHCPA has extensive genealogical information and artifacts in folders and boxes relating to over 1,400 families. They contain all sorts of collected documentation: newspaper clippings, handwritten notes, family trees and geneological reports, funeral cards, personal diaries and journal entries, receipts, certificates, wills, business transactions, membership cards, photographs, etc. -- all donated by families during the past 100 years. In 2005, WHCPA initiated a project to digitize these materials to preserve them, to enhance them, and to make them more accessible to the public. Over 30,000 digitized searchable images are available right now for manual in-person browsing on the museum's computer system.
Submit a query to the WHCPA Archives Staff by clicking on the following link: Archives Query
Family Files
Files on over 1,400 families
Area Newspapers:
Minnetonka Record (1906 - 1947), Minnetonka Herald (1931 - 1968 some missing)
Family Genealogy Books:
Airy - Pray, Batdorf, Bovey - Stevens, Bryant, Dayton, Doeer, Dillman, Ernst, Eisinger, Halverson, Guise - Snoke - Lewis, Harrington, Weidenbach, Klaers, Lamonts, Lenzen, Mauer - Neddermeyer, Morin, Maxwell, Nichols - Wilson, Holman, Rice, Rogers, Roussel, Schumacher, Grave, Stubbs, Stumpf, Sutherland, Thies, Trumble, Turnham, Wakefield, Wolsfeld
Yearbooks:
Orono, Wayzata, others