Welcome to Brown County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family 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 keeping Genealogy free 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. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] DONATE YOUR DATA! 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 newspaper 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 20 1855 The county was named for pioneer Joseph Renshaw Brown, a prominent pioneer, soldier, Indian trader, lumberman, speculator, founder of cities, legislator, politician, and editor. County Seat New Ulm 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 Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: May 2013: Obit: Suess Sept. 2012: Obits: Eyl, Fenschke, Groetchow, Haack, Lipp, Schilling, Virgel Marriages: Beecher-Treadwell; Buenger-Vogel; Lauterbach-Russell Bios: Beinhorn, Bobleter, Heideman, Movius, Pfaender, Weschcke Local News: New Ulm (25 June 1898 and 11 Jan. 1899) August 2012: Obits: Boesch, Ipps, Schell July 2012: Obit: Hansen; marriage: Rubey - Krause; Bio: Buenger June 2012: Obit: Fay; Bio: Rukke May 2012: Bios: Bahe, Bangerter, Baumgartner Apr. 2012: Bios: Eckstein, Fritsche, Hirsch, Huebner, Schmid, Smith, Somerville Mar. 2012: Bios: Critchett, Hanft; Marriage: Pfander-Kasson Feb. 2012: 1935 Birth Index; bios: Bobleter, Brandt; WW2 Army Honor List; Bio: Pfaender Dec 2011: Obituaries for ZWAKMAN; bio for WYLIE; crime news for KOCH Previous Updates: Bios- Frederickson, Madsen,Schutt,Tharkeldsen,Tosch, Clayton, CURRENT, HOY, KOLBE, PENNING, DEY, LARRABEE, TOWER; 1908 Death Records SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Nicollet County (northeast) Blue Earth County (southeast) Watonwan County (south) Cottonwood County (southwest) Redwood County (west) Renville County (northwest) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.