Welcome to Lincoln 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 Named after Abraham Lincoln, it was created by the Minnesota Legislature on March 6, 1873 It was created out of the western part of Lyon County Townships Cities Alta Vista Township Ash Lake Township Diamond Lake Township Drammen Township Hansonville Township Hendricks Township Hope Township Lake Benton Township Lake Stay Township Limestone Township Marble Township Marshfield Township Royal Township Shaokatan Township Verdi Township Arco Hendricks Ivanhoe Lake Benton Tyler 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: Feb. 2013: Obits: Cliffgard, Gooch, Kabot (expanded), Leitz, Olesen, Roos, Soderlind Community News for Lake Benton (12 July 1898 and 22 Sept. 1898) Births - "A" Surnames August 2012: Obit: Kabot Apr. 2012: Bio: McArthur Mar. 2012: Bio: Clement Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List July 2011: Crime news Previous Updates: EASTMAN, EICH Obits; Diamond Lake Cemetery Burials; ANDERSEN, BLACK biographies; Births 1876-1882 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 Yellow Medicine County (north) Lyon County (east) Pipestone County (south) Brookings County, SD (west) Deuel County, SD (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.