Welcome to Ramsey 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 An original county, it was created on October 27, 1849 Named for Alexander Ramsey, the first Minnesota territorial governor It is the smallest county in Minnesota in terms of area, but the most densely populated. The Mississippi River forms a municipal boundary on part of the city's west, southwest and southeast sides. Minneapolis, the state's largest city lies to the west; Falcon Heights, Lauderdale, Roseville, and Maplewood are north; Maplewood is also to the east; the cities of West Saint Paul and South Saint Paul are to the south; and Lilydale, Mendota and Mendota Heights lie across the river from the city to the south. The city's largest lakes are Pig's Eye Lake, in the river, Lake Phalen, and Lake Como. County Seat St. Paul Townships Cities White Bear Township Arden Hills Blaine (part) Falcon Heights Gem Lake Lauderdale Little Canada Maplewood Mounds View New Brighton North Oaks North St. Paul Roseville Shoreview St. Anthony (part) St. Paul Spring Lake Park (part) Vadnais Heights White Bear Lake (part)  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 Updates Website Updates: Apr. 2012: Please check for all future updates on UPDATES PAGE Mar. 2012: Obits: Beck, Binning, Burgraff, Edgerton, Gilstad, Hoisser, Jensen, Korntved, Maclean, Mallinger, Man, Penschuck, Peters, Schwantes, Seidel, Siebell, Sorgatz,  Thompson, Turner, Vierling, Wagner, Weiss, Weld, Wheelock, Wuellner; Bio: Ernst; Marriages: Dexter-Manseau; Schiff-Bollman Marriages: Cleary-McCoy, Devereaux-Lindberg, Graham-Mitchelson, Jones-Jacobson, Ramus-Patton, Rex-Sandberg, Ryan-O'Reilly Bios: Chamberlain, Chaney, Chapin, Chase, Childs, Chinnock, Chittenden, Christensen, Christofferson, Clapp, Clark, Clarke, Clarkson, Claussen, Cleary, Cleland, Clement, Cobb, Cochran, Coffey, Cole, Coleman, Collins, Combs, Comstock, Cook, Cooper, Copeland, Corcoran, Corning, Cornwel, Craig, Crassweller, Crawford, Crowley, Gregory, Gribben, Griffin, Griggs, Grimsrud, Grode, Grove, Grunow, Guiterman,Gutgesell, Guthrie, Haas, Habberstad, Hackney, Hadley, Hadlich, Haenck, Hase, Haggard, Halbert, Hall, Hallam, Halsted, Hamlin, Hamm, Hammer, Hammond, Handy, Hanft, Hanggi, Hannaford, Hanson, Hardenbergh, Hardy, Harris, Hartin, Hartsinck, Haskell, Haslett, Hastings, Haupt Feb. 2012: Misc. news Marriage: Waldhof & Kreasal Bios: Anderson, Arosin, Bayard, Beardsley, Bechhoefer, Beckley, Begg, Beggs, Behnke, Bement, Benecke, Benham, Bennion, Bentley, Benz, Bergmeir, Berkey, Berry, Betz, Bidleman, Bigelow, Bjorn, Black, Blomquist, Boardman, Bockman, Boeckmann, Boeringer, Bolt, Bookstaver, Borer, Borreson, Boxell, Boyd, Bradford, Bramhall, Brandt, Bremer, Brennan, Bridgman, Briggs, Brill, Brimhall, Castle, Culver, Cunningham, Curry, Curtis, Cushing, Cutler, Dafoe, Danchertsen, Danz, Darling, Davidson, Davis, Day, Dean, Dearth, Denegre, Dennis, Denny, Deringer, Deuel, Dickerman, Dickey, Dickson, Dinwoodie, Dittenhofer, Dobner, Dodds, Dohm, Dolan, Donald, Donnelly, Donohue, Doolittle, Doran, Dorsey, Doty, Douglas, Dow, Downey, Downs, Drake, Draper, Doty, Douglas, Dow, Downey, Downs, Drake, Draper, Drew, Drill, Driscoll, Dunn, Dunnavan, Dunning, Edgerton, Holcomb, McGill, O'Brien, Ramsey Obits: Lynch, Ramsey, crime news: Jackson & Orman Disasters News: Fire at Bailey Home Jan 2012: 1863 deaths mentioned in history book; death certifications for BECK, DOUCETTE, FEYMA, KORNTVED, NEILS, REHBEIN, SCHWANTES, THOMPSON, WAGNER, ZIMMERMAN; List of Cemeteries; bios for AKERS, ALWAY, AMES Dec 2011: ROBINSON-MEHL marriage notice; ITNER, PURMER, BURDING OBITS; BOATING ACCIDENT news; bio for BREED; Previous Updates: Biography-Furber & George, Mrs Clark, Schouweiler, CROSBY, SAUNDERS Biographies; SCOTT/PATTERSON marriage announcement Slavery News Items, GREEN obit; Marriage notice for Hare - Hancock; William Worthingham Death Notice 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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