Welcome to Hennepin 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 Taoyateduta Known as Chief Little Crow (1810? July 3, 1863) Dakota Sioux were the region's sole residents until explorers arrived from France in about 1680. The city's land was acquired by the United States in a series of treaties and purchases negotiated with the Mdewakanton band of the Dakota and separately with European nations. Fort Snelling, built in 1819 by the United States Army at the convergence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers, spurred growth in the area. Present day Minneapolis was incorporated as a city on the Mississippi's west bank in 1867, the same year rail service began between Minneapolis and Chicago, and joined with the east bank city of St. Anthony in 1872. Minneapolis grew up around Saint Anthony Falls, the only waterfall on the Mississippi and the end of the commercially navigable section of the river until locks were installed in the 1960s. The city's history is tied to the riverfront and the falls, where, for the half century between 1880 and 1930, Minneapolis became the most important flour producing city in the world. The county was named in honor of the 17th-century explorer Father Louis Hennepin. The county seat is Minneapolis. It is by far the most populous county in Minnesota; more than one in five Minnesotans live in Hennepin County. [Source: Wikipedia.org] Cities and Towns  Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Updates Website Updates: Apr. 2012: For all future updates please check UPDATES PAGE Mar. 2012: Obits: Barnes, Binning, Blake, Cain, Filbin, Flink, Gardiner, Graveel, Hansen, Holmgren, Johnson, Lienhard, Lobner, Lundeen, Mattson, Maylone, Morgan, Pillsbury, Roise, Saunders, Schwantes, Seaman; Bios: Ames, Belden, Boyeson, Elliott, Ernst, Lane, Northrop, Pillsbury, Sabin, Walker: Engagement: Benson-Helliwell; Marriages: Dexter-Manseau, Anthony-Thelein, Gregory-Sorvik, Howden-Everson, Hubbell-Wilson, Johnson-Westerman, Lindemann-Sacke, Post & Taylor-Goodyear, Tenfold-Sacke, Tillinghast-Heif; Bios: Chaffee, Chamberlain, Chase, Chatfield, Child, Childs, Choate, Christie, Chute, Clancy, Clark, Clarke, Clawson, Clement, Cleveland, Coan, Cobb, Cobban, Cockey, Coe, Conklin, Conway, Cook, Cooke, Cooley, Coolidge, Cooper, Cootey, Corrigan, Corser, Cotton, Courtney, Couse, Covey, Crafts, Crane, Crawford, Crocker, Crockett, Gregory, Grimes, Grimsrud, Gross, Grotte, Guesmer, Guilford, Gutgesell, Gutzmann, Haglin, Haisch, Haley, Hall, Hallowell, Hallstrom, Hamilton, Hanley, Hannah, Harmon, Harrington, Harris, Harrison, Hartin Feb. 2012: obits: Cates, Genereux, Hun, Irvin, Jacobson, Johnson, Sewell, Washburn; misc news; bios: Arctander, Askeland, Bayless, Beal, Beckman, Belden, Belknap, Bell, Bemis, Bendeke, Benham, Benjamin, Bennet; Bennett, Berg, Bertsch, Bill, Bingenheimer, Blackstone, Blake, Blakeman, Bleecker, Blomstrom, Boardman, Bodge, Bolton, Bond, Bousfield, Bowden, Bowe, Bowler, Brandebury, Bressesen, Bright, Collins, Currier, Cutts, Dahl, Dansingberg, Day, Dean, DeLaittre, DeLong, Demeules, Deming, Deutsch, Deveraux, Dickey, Dickinson, Dingman, Dodge, Dowdall, Downs, Dreger, Drew, Delany, Dunnell, Dunwoody, Durkee, Eustis, Evans, Fletcher, Green, Johnson, Koon, Loring, Partridge, Proctor, Sanford, Schlener, Smith, Wyman, Young; Marriages: Cravens-Nugent, Richter-Kittelson; crime news: Pomeroy; Misc. news Jan 2012: AITON, AKELEY, AMES, CLARKE bios; court news for TAYLOR; marriage announcement for COMPTON-BYINGTON Dec 2011: Community news for the Litchfield bank; marr licenses, births and deaths from Oct 30, 1902; COHN, FUHLEN, ARMSTRONG obits; Death certificate information for AHLGREN, BINNING, DOREK, FEYMA, FLINK, MILLER, NEILS, NELSON, OLIVER, SAUNDERS, WICKER, ZIMMERMAN Previous Updates: Biography-Mrs. Louis Chase Pillsbury newspaper story, MOLES, FOSBERG obit, Bottineau, Trapp, Ilter, Bethke obits, 1860 Mortality Schedule; Nigler Cemetery listing, Postcards of Minneapolis, Many new Biographies added, PERPICH Obit SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. 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