Welcome to Renville 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 putting data online 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.] 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 1855 Named for Joseph Renville, son of a French father and Indian mother, who worked as a trader and interpreter Renville County was the site of several hostile engagements in the Sioux Uprising of 1862. County Seat Olivia Townships Cities Bandon Township Beaver Falls Township Birch Cooley Township Bird Island Township Boon Lake Township Brookfield Township Cairo Township Camp Township Crooks Township Emmet Township Ericson Township Flora Township Hawk Creek Township Hector Township Henryville Township Kingman Township Martinsburg Township Melville Township Norfolk Township Osceola Township Palmyra Township Preston Lake Township Sacred Heart Township Troy Township Wang Township Wellington Township Winfield Township Bird Island Buffalo Lake Danube Fairfax Franklin Hector Morton Olivia Redwood Falls (part) Renville Sacred Heart 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: May 2013: Obits: Becherer, Bruske, Dallman, Dodge, Kirwan, Mesick, Olson, Palmund, Renville, Ziegenhagen Marriages: Albrecht – Schiel; Gullickson - Johnson; Larson - Lideen; Lee - Docken Mar. 2013: Church Records: St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Renville) Baptisms, Funerals & Marriages (1886-1986) May 2012: Obits: Brown, Dallmann; Bio: Allen Apr. 2012: Bios: Effertz, Peterson Mar. 2012: Death Index 1908-1910; History: Early Settlements (1916) Bios: Crassweller, Hall Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; History: County Commissioners & County Officers; Bios: Coffin, Dowling, Eggert, Harrier, Hodgdon, McEwen, Okins, Richards, Sheppard Jan 2012: Marr. Ann for NELLERMOE-HOUGH; County History and description Previous Updates: Obituaries of Mr. & Mrs. Wm Hershberger; Misc. News Story for BAKER; 1860 Federal Census 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 Kandiyohi County (north) Meeker County (northeast) McLeod County (east) Sibley County (east,southeast) Nicollet County (south) Brown County (southeast} Redwood County (southwest) Yellow Medicine County (west) Chippewa 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.