Welcome to Kandiyohi 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 March 20, 1858 Seat: Willmar Largest city: Willmar The county name derives from the Dakota term translated as "where the buffalo fish come" Kandiyohi County was organized in 1858 with its county seat in Kandiyohi, which was then called Kandiyohi Station, and was just a railroad stop.The original county occupied only the southern half of its current area. Development was slow, however, and in 1870 the state legislature called for Monongalia County to merge with Kandiyohi and make one, larger county. It took until November 21, 1871 to agree on a county seat, and the centrally located Willmar was chosen. 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: Jan. 2013: Obits: Frost, Richie, Sheagreen Marriages: Anderson - Nickerson; Feig - Ditmarson; Frye - Backlund; Larson - Hedin; Lesterberg - Norman; Nelson - Thimell; Olson - Amundson; Olstad - Mathias; Steberg - Nelson; Storm - Swenson Nov. 2012: Obit: Nelson August 2012: Obit: Hanson July 2012: Bio: Castberg June 2012: Obits: Beck, Parsons May 2012: Bios: Anderson, Archibald, Arctander Apr. 2012: Bios: Egge, Foland, Johnson Mar. 2012: Bio: Hagen; Marriage: Serruier-Bowen Feb. 2012: Bios: Almen, Branton, Johnson, Railson Dec 2011: MATTSON death notice; Drowning victims recovered: BIRCH, CRAMER, TELSTAD; List of cemeteries Previous Updates: Obit for SWANSON; Fire Wardens, 1895; News Article--Iowans Relocating to Kandiyohi County in 1915 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 Stearns County (north) Meeker County (east) Renville County (south) Chippewa County (southwest) Swift County (northwest) Pope 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.