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Welcome
to this

Genealogy Trails

website for
Scott County

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Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
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.

We regret that we are unable to do personal research for you

 


County Information
Organized 1853

Named for General Winfield Scott.

Parent County: Dakota

County Seat
Shakopee

The Shakopee-Mdewakanton Indian Reservation is located entirely within the county (and entirely within the city of Prior Lake).

Government Website

Townships

Cities

Belle Plaine Township
Blakeley Township
Cedar Lake Township
Credit River Township
Helena Township
Jackson Township

Louisville Township
New Market Township
Sand Creek Township
Spring Lake Township
St. Lawrence Township

Belle Plaine
Elko
Jordan
New Market
New Prague (part)
Prior Lake
Savage
Shakopee

 


Online Data

BIRTHS

OBITS

MARRIAGES

CEMETERIES

CENSUS INFO

BIOGRAPHIES

DEATHS

CHURCHES

NEWS & GOSSIP

Website Updates
Apr 2009: RAYMOND obit
Jan 2009: RENNER-MAERTZ marriage
Nov 2008: BERRISFORD Biography

Adjacent Counties:
Hennepin County (north)
Dakota County (east)
Rice County (southeast)
Le Sueur County (southwest)
Sibley County (west)
Carver County (northwest)

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