Welcome to Olmsted 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 Created Feb. 20, 1855 Named for David Olmsted, first mayor of St. Paul Online Data Biographies Births Books/Articles Businesses Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County History County Records Death Records Directories Family Bibles Historical Places Local Resources Maps Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Photos Places  School Records  Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr. 2013: Obits: Blethen, Classon, Davis, Deull, Gardner, Hall, Kemp, Nigon, Richardson, Stevenson, Van Doozer, Wilson, Wright Marriages: Anderson - Kiel; Bosfield - Potts; Brin - Eyestone; Dresser - Carter; Emery - Van; Kohagen - Menhardt; Lindblad - Meyers; Lundberg - Mock; Page - Nye; Peterson - Smith; Priebe - Beske; Pries - Schamrock; Redig - Rieple; Spencer - Montgomery; Yates - Wise Mar. 2013: Bio: Brown August 2012: Marriage: Volles - Larson July 2012: Bio: Canfield June 2012: Obit: Damon; Bios: Franklin, Jones, Steinberg Apr. 2012: Bios: Elliott, Ellis, Germo, Grannis, McArthur, Ozmun, Start, Stebbins Mar. 2012: County History (1920); Union Soldiers Buried in Olmsted County; Obit: Glans, Kappauf; Bios: Cobb, Conley, Cook, Cote, Cooper Feb. 2012: Bios: Blakely, Boylhard, Kingsley Jan 2012: bio for ALDRICH Union Soldiers Buried in Olmsted County Minnesota 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 Wabasha County (north) Winona County (east) Fillmore County (south) Mower County (southwest) Dodge County (west) Goodhue 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.