Welcome to Goodhue 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 The county was formed from territory within Wabasha County on March 5, 1853. County boundaries were defined in 1854 and further refined again in 1855. It was named for James Madison Goodhue, the first printer-editor in Minnesota. The county seat is Red Wing Nearly all of Prairie Island Indian Community is within the county. Townships Cities Belle Creek Township Belvidere Township Cannon Falls Township Cherry Grove Township Featherstone Township Florence Township Goodhue Township Hay Creek Township Holden Township Kenyon Township Leon Township Minneola Township Pine Island Township Roscoe Township Stanton Township Vasa Township Wacouta Township Wanamingo Township Warsaw Township Welch Township Zumbrota Township Bellechester (part) Cannon Falls Dennison (part) Goodhue Kenyon Lake City (part) Pine Island (part) Red Wing Wanamingo Zumbrota  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: Bios: Allen, Anderson, Aslakson, Backus, Balderson, Baldwin, Ballard; Marriage: Drake-Jaynes Apr. 2012: Bios: Brill, Ericson, Featherston, Foot, Friedrich, Fryberger, Fulton, Gerlach, Gilbertson, Jamison, Swanstrom, Werner Mar. 2012: Bios: Bixby, Cremer, Grondahl, Hall, Haller, Hanson, Harding, Hartupee, Hubbard; Obit: Carpenter; birthday - O. Graham; Marriage: Baken-Isham Feb. 2012: 1860 Census - Belle Creek; Bios: Beckman, Blodgett, Boxrud Dec 2011: Crime news re: BROWN; Bio for JABEZ, BROOKS. Gossip news for MALBERG, JOHNSON, ERICKSON, CHALBERG, BESTUL, CHAMBERS Previous Updates: Korean War MIA-POWS; Marriage Announcement for REMSHARDT/ROSENGREN; WW2 Casualties; 1870 Mortality Schedule Obits for CHRISTIANSON & DALEN; Bios for COX, GRAHAM, HANCOCK, SHELDON, SWENEY, WILLISTON & WILDER; 1909 History of County & Townships; Death certificate for HARTLAND; Divorce for GRIEBIE 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 Pierce County, Wis. (northeast) Pepin County, Wis. (northeast) Wabasha County (southeast) Olmsted County (southeast) Dodge County (southwest) Rice County (west) Dakota 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.