Welcome to this Genealogy Trails website for Renville County 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 and then contact Kim. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] All information you find on this site is submitted by people like you and me, searching for their family roots. 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 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. 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 Government Website 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 BIRTHS OBITS MARRIAGES CEMETERIES CENSUS INFO BIOGRAPHIES DEATHS CHURCHES NEWSPAPER DATA     MILITARY DATA Website Updates Mar 2009: Misc. News Story for BAKER Nov 2008: 1860 Federal Census 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 BACK TO THE MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.