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Guide to Brown County Minnesota genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

	Minnesota Online Records

Brown County, Minnesota
Map
Location in the state of Minnesota
Location of Minnesota in the U.S.
Facts
Founded	February 20, 1855
County Seat	New Ulm
Courthouse
Address	Brown County Courthouse 14 South State Street New Ulm, MN 56073 Phone: 507-233-6600 (Administration Department) Phone: 507-233-6657 Brown County Website

County Courthouse

County Recorder has birth and death records from 1870,
marriage records from 1857 and land records.
Clerk District Court has divorce and probate records from 1856
and court records from 1885.
Minnesota Historical Society
naturalization records.^[1]

History

Parent County

• 1855--Brown County was created 20 February 1855 from Blue Earth County.  County seat: New Ulm ^[2]
• For a brief history of how Brown County was named, click here.  Then select Brown County.

Boundary Changes

Record Loss

Places/Localities

Populated Places

Cities

Cobden | Comfrey | Evan | Hanska  | New Ulm | Sleepy Eye | Springfield

Townships

Albin Township | Bashaw Township | Burnstown Township | Cottonwood Township | Eden Township | Home Township | Lake Hanska Township | Leavenworth Township  | Linden Township  | Milford Township | Mulligan Township | North Star Township | Prairieville Township | Sigel Township | Stark Township | Stately Township

 Unincorporated

Godahl

Neighboring Counties

• Blue Earth
• Cottonwood
• Nicollet
• Redwood
• Renville
• Watonwan

Resources

Cemeteries

Church

Most church records are held by individual churches. For contact information, check a phone directory, such as SearchBug or Dex Knows. Some denominations are gathering their records into a central repository. For more information about these major repositories, see Minnesota Church Records.

Lutheran

Lake Hanska Lutheran Church, Hanska

• Records of the Lake Hanska Lutheran Church, Hanska, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).^[3]

St. John's Lutheran Church, Springfield

• Records of St. John's Lutheran Church, Springfield, in Evangelical Lutheran Church in America database at Archives.com ($).^[3]

Court

Land

The county register of deeds keeps land records once the land was transferred to private ownership. Abstracts and indexes for these records are generally available at the county courthouse.

Land records for Minnesota are listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under:

MINNESOTA, Brown – LAND AND PROPERTY

Local Histories

Local histories are available for Brown County, Minnesota. County histories may include biographies, church, school and government history, and military information. For more information about local histories, see the wiki page section Minnesota Local Histories.

Maps

Military

Civil War

Civil War service men from Faribault County served in various regiments. Men often joined a company (within a regiment) that originated in their county. Listed below are many companies or regiments that were formed from men of Faribault County.

- 1st Regiment, Minnesota Cavalry (Mounted Rangers), Company L.

- 2nd Regiment, Minnesota Cavalry, Companies G and M.

Newspapers

Additional newspapers abstracts can sometimes be found using search phrases such as Brown County, Minnesota newspapers in online catalogs like:

• WorldCat
• FamilySearch. Do a Brown County, Minnesota Place-name search for these and other records in the Family History Library Catalog (For instructions see, FHL Catalog Place-name Search).

Probate

Probate records may include, wills, bonds, petitions, accounts, inventories, administrations, orders, decrees, and distributions. They may include the decedent’s date of death, names of his or her spouse, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, etc. See Minnesota Probate Records for additional information.

Taxation

Minnesota tax records complement land records and can be used in place of censuses before 1820 or to supplement the years between censuses. Because only persons who owned taxable property were listed, many residents were not included in tax lists. There may also be gaps of several years in the tax records of some counties. For more information, see the wiki page Minnesota Taxation.

Vital Records

Vital Records consist of births, adoptions, marriages, divorces, and deaths recorded on registers, certificates, and documents.

A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the Minnesota State Registrar of Vital Records or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred. See also Minnesota Vital Records. For information about restrictions and costs for certificates, see the CDC Where to Write for Vital Records site.

Societies and Libraries

• Brown County Historical Society

Family History Centers

• Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

• Brown County, MN Genealogy Forum (GenForum)
• Family History Library Catalog
• Brown County GenWeb
• Cyndi's List: Brown County

References

1. ↑ Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Brown County, Minnesota page 362, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
2. ↑ The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002).
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} "Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: An Inventory of Selected Congregational Records of the American Lutheran Church in Minnesota at the Minnesota Historical Society," Collection Finding Aids, Minnesota Historical Society, http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/01009.xml, accessed 10 June 2013.

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