Welcome to Wilkin 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 Originally established as Toombs County on March 8, 1858, it was named after Robert Toombs (1810-85) of Georgia, who had been a member of Congress, 1845-53, and was U.S. senator, 1853-61. Mr. Toombs became a leading disunionist, then a Confederate secretary of state in 1861, and later was a Confederate general. In 1863, the county was renamed Andy Jackson County after President Andrew Jackson and to disassociate with Mr. Toombs. The county changed its name to Wilkin County, for Col. Alexander Wilkin, who was killed in the Civil War, in March 6, 1868. Parent counties: Cass, Toombs, Johnson County Seat Breckenridge Townships Cities Akron Township Andrea Township Atherton Township Bradford Township Brandrup Township Breckenridge Township Campbell Township Champion Township Connelly Township Deerhorn Township Foxhome Township Manston Township McCauleyville Township Meadows Township Mitchell Township Nilsen Township Nordick Township Prairie View Township Roberts Township Sunnyside Township Tanberg Township Wolverton Township Breckenridge Campbell Doran Foxhome Kent Nashua Rothsay (part) Tenney Wolverton 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: Sept. 2012: Obit: Maitland July 2012: Marriage: Triplet-Robinson; Bio: Burrows May 2012: Bios: Archibald, Balentine Apr. 2012: Ehlert, Granger, James, Wells Mar. 2012: Bios: Gunn, Hanson; Marriage: Moon-Hoffman Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Enlistment Records & Honor List Jan 2012: Death certificates for ZIMMERMAN; Birth Announcement for ZIMMERMAN; list of cemeteries Previous Updates: CHAPMAN obit; Index to 1860 Federal Census (Toombs Co); Death Records 1908-1909; Fire Wardens, 1895 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 Clay County (north) Otter Tail County (east) Grant County (southeast) Traverse County (south) Richland County, ND (southwest) Cass County, ND (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.