Welcome to McLeod 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 1, 1856 Named for Martin McLeod, an early fur trader Seat Glencoe Largest city Hutchinson Cities * Biscay * Brownton * Glencoe * Hutchinson * Lester Prairie * Plato * Silver Lake * Stewart * Winsted Townships * Acoma Township * Bergen Township * Collins Township * Glencoe Township * Hale Township * Hassan Valley Township * Helen Township * Hutchinson Township * Lynn Township * Penn Township * Rich Valley Township * Round Grove Township * Sumter Township * Winsted Township Unincorporated * Fernando * Sherman * Sumter Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Directories Death Records County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Alien Registration Papers (1918) Business Directory Entries (1873) McLeod Co. State Atlas Patrons (1874) Minnesota State Atlas Patrons (1875)   Website Updates: May 2013: 1860 Federal Census; 1857 State Census; Civil War & Indian Wars Enlistments Apr. 2013: Veterans on the Census of 1865, 1885, 1905, 1910 & 1883 Pension List McLeod Co. State Atlas Patrons for 1874 Mar. 2013: 1875 Minnesota State Atlas Patrons St. Paul's Lutheran Church Records, Plato, Minnesota Obits: Bonniwell, Day, Naegli, Shelland Marriages: Vye - Pendergast: Birth: Dinan May 2012: Bio: Anderson Apr. 2012: Bios: Archibald, Brabec, Gatz, Peterson; Indian War Claims Filed (1862); Business Directory Entries (1873); Veterans Noted in Adjutant Generals Report (1866); G.A.R. Deaths Reported by Civil War Clubs; Alien Registration Papers (1918) Mar. 2012: 1857 Territorial Census; Bio: Heatwole; Marriage: Rauch-Welch Feb. 2012: obit: Denovan; County History (1920); Bio: Hodgdon Jan 2012: List of Cemeteries; World War 2 Casualties 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 Wright County (northeast) Carver County (east) Sibley County (south) Renville County (west) Meeker 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.