Welcome to Faribault 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 Founded February 20, 1855 Named for Jean Baptiste Faribault, a trader with the Dakota. Seat: Blue Earth Largest city: Blue Earth Townships Cities Barber Township Blue Earth City Township Brush Creek Township Clark Township Delavan Township Dunbar Township Elmore Township Emerald Township Foster Township Jo Daviess Township Kiester Township Lura Township Minnesota Lake Township Pilot Grove Township Prescott Township Rome Township Seely Township Verona Township Walnut Lake Township Winnebago City Township Blue Earth Bricelyn Delavan Easton Elmore Frost Kiester Minnesota Lake (Part) Walters Wells Winnebago 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 2012: Bio: Armstrong Apr. 2012: Bio: Fosnes, Hirsch, Secor Mar. 2012: Obit: Cieszinski; Bios: Clarke, Constans, Cote Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; Obit: Sundberg; Faribault Local News (Sept. 1899) Dec 2011: County History, list of cemeteries Previous Updates: YOUNG and PEDERSEN obits 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 Blue Earth Co (north) Waseca Co (northeast) Freeborn Co (east) Martin Co (west) Winnebago Co, Iowa (southeast) Kossuth Co, Iowa (southwest) 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.