Welcome to Todd 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 Established by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature in February of 1856. Fort Ripley was in the original county, which extended east to the Mississippi. John Baines Smith Todd was in command of the Fort at that time, and it was named after him. Parent County: Stearns County Seat Long Prairie Townships Cities Bartlett Township Bertha Township Birchdale Township Bruce Township Burleene Township Burnhamville Township Eagle Valley Township Fawn Lake Township Germania Township Gordon Township Grey Eagle Township Hartford Township Iona Township Kandota Township Leslie Township Little Elk Township Little Sauk Township Long Prairie Township Moran Township Reynolds Township Round Prairie Township Staples Township Stowe Prairie Township Turtle Creek Township Villard Township Ward Township West Union Township Wykeham Township Bertha Browerville Burtrum Clarissa Eagle Bend Grey Eagle Hewitt Long Prairie Osakis (part) Staples (part) West Union  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: Oct. 2012: Marriage: Perkins - Barber Sept. 2012: Bio: Sheets August 2012: Obits: Barber, Church, Christie, Lasrely July 2012: Bio: Brower; Obits: Carlson, Larson; Marriages: Carlson - Larson; Nelson - Larson Mar. 2012: County Offices (1915) Engagement: Marr-Hiler; Obit: Schwantes; Marriage: Bently-Mack Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; misc. news Jan 2012: death cert. for FORER Dec 2011: Obit for CRIST, BRISTLIN; newspaper stories: gossip, misc. news for ALTMAN; bio for LEA; crime news for EWING, KOCH; HENDERICKSON murder Previous updates: 1857 Territorial Census; 1860 Federal Census; 1865 State Census; Township & Village History 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 Wadena County (north) Cass County (northeast) Morrison County (east) Stearns County (south) Douglas County (west) Otter Tail 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.