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website for
Brown County

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Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.

This website is available for adoption.
We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our
Volunteer Page for further information about us and then contact Kim.
[A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.]


All information you find on this site is submitted by people like you and me, searching for their family roots. We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please
send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online.

We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you.
All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back!

 


County Information
Organized February 1855

The county was named for pioneer Joseph Renshaw Brown

County Seat
New Ulm

Government Website
and
History



Townships:

Cities

 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

Cobden
Comfrey
(extends into Cottonwood Co.)
Evan
Hanska
New Ulm
Sleepy Eye
Springfield

 


Online Data

BIRTHS

OBITS

MARRIAGES

CEMETERIES

CENSUS INFO

BIOGRAPHIES

DEATHS

HISTORY

NEWSPAPER DATA

Website Updates
Oct 2009: CURRENT, HOY, KOLBE, PENNING bios
Sep 2009: DEY bio
Aug 2009: LARRABEE bio
July 2009: TOWER bio
Nov 2008: 1908 Death Records

Adjacent Counties:
Nicollet County (northeast)
Blue Earth County (southeast)
Watonwan County (south)
Cottonwood County (southwest)
Redwood County (west)
Renville County (northwest)

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