Welcome to Steele 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 Founded February 20, 1855 Named for Franklin Steele, a prominent pioneer of Minneapolis. Seat Owatonna Largest city Owatonna Townships Cities Aurora Township Berlin Township Blooming Prairie Township Clinton Falls Township Deerfield Township Havana Township Lemond Township Medford Township Meriden Township Merton Township Owatonna Township Somerset Township Summit Township Blooming Prairie (part) Ellendale Medford Owatonna 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: Schuler death information August 2012: Obits: Banks, Gamble, Kennedy, Newsall July 2012: Bios: Brown, Bunde, Cashman June 2012: Bios: Miller, Muir, Weber May 2012: Bios: Alexander, Andrews, Armstrong Apr. 2012: Bios: Ellington, Gamble, Hall, McMahon Mar. 2012: 1870 Mortality Index; Marriage license & certificate: Comstock-Simmons; Obit: Lieb; Bio: Chase Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; crime news: Hawkins, Schuster; obit: Tuttle; Bios: Bennett, Burch, Darby, Doolittle, Partridge; County History (1910) Deaths 1874-1887 Jan 2012: Death Records from 1908-1914; list of cemeteries; ZIEGENMEYER obit 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 Rice County (north) Dodge County (east) Mower County (southeast) Freeborn County (south) Waseca County (west) 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.