Sibley County Minnesota

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"Seven Step Program (now Nine)" for Sibley County Research

Nine Step Research Program - Jane's Sibley Co. Nine Step Research Program. This is where to Start your Sibley Co. research.

Sibley County Statistics:

• Population 1860: 3,609 | 1870: 7,431 | 1880: 10,637 | 1900: 16,862 | 1920: 15,635 | 1940: 16,625 | 1980: 15,448 | 1990: 14,335
• County Seat: Gaylord
• Townships (map): 17 (Grafton, Moltke, Severance, Bismark, Cornish, Transit, Alfsborg, New Auburn, Dryden, Sibley, Green Isle, Arlington, Kelso, Washington Lake, Jessenland, Henderson, Faxon).
• Towns: 7 (Gibbon, Winthrop, Gaylord, Arlington, New Auburn, Green Isle, Henderson).
• Ghost towns: Johnstown, Faxon, Doheny's Landing, North Henderson, Deerfield (Rush River), Kelso (Hartford or Freemont), Eagle City, Mountville and Prairie Mound (New Rome), Brack (Grafton Township), High Island (New Auburn).

• Sibley Co. Historical Society, PO Box 407, 700 Main Street, Henderson MN 56044. Hours: 2 - 5 p.m. Sun., last Sunday in May to last Sunday in October. Offering a growing collection of donated family history books. The microfilm collection includes the Sibley County Independent, Henderson Independent, Minnesota State Census for 1857, 1865, 1875, 1885, 1895 and 1905.

• Sibley County Courthouse, Sibley County Recorder's Office, 400 Court Street, Gaylord, MN 55334-0044. Phone: (507) 237-5526.

You can request birth, marriage and death records from the Sibley Co. Recorders Office. If you need copies of vitals information you may request them, they will check their records, mail you back as to the fees, and when they receive the fees they will mail out the copies, etc. as requested. When visiting the Sibley County Recorder's Office, don't forget to sign in or check the "genealogy guest book".

 

County Courthouse (Recorders Office) Vital Records

Birth Records, 1870 - present, indexed

Death records, 1870 - present, indexed

Marriage records, 1865 - present, male and female index

Deeds records, 1857

Court Administrator E-mail: Karen Messner Minimum Search $5.00 per name plus $5.00 per document:

Probate records, 1895 - present

Wills, 1903

• Winthrop Historical Society - c/o President Sam Shult, Rural Route 2, Winthrop, MN 55396. Phone: (507) 647-2295

• Southern Minnesota Historical Center - Mankato State University, William Lass -Director, Mankato, MN 56001, (507) 389-1029 (Center)

• Local Libraries: MnLink Minnesota Public Library System (select Traverse des Sioux Library System)
• Arlington Branch Library, 321 W Main Street, Arlington, MN 55307. Phone: (507) 964-2490
• Gaylord Public Library, 332 Main Avenue, Gaylord, MN 55334-0797. Phone: (507) 237-2280
• Gibbon Public Library, 100 Park Drive, Gibbon, MN 55335. Phone: (507) 834-6551
• Henderson Public Library, 110 South 6th Street, Henderson, MN 56044. Phone: (507) 248-3880 (When visiting the Henderson Public Library, don't forget to sign in or check the "genealogy guest book").
• Winthrop Public Library, 203 N Main Street, Winthrop, MN 55396. Phone: (507) 647-5308

• Minnesota LDS Family History Centers: (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Minnesota LDS Research Outline- FTP site.
• BEMIDJI 3033 Birchmont Drive Tel. (218) 751-9129
• BLOOMINGTON 9700 Nesbitt Ave. So. (612) 835-0053
• BROOKLYN PARK 4700 Edinbrook Parkway Tel. (612) 425-1865
• DULUTH 521 Upham Road, Duluth, Tel. (218) 722-9508
• MANKATO 1851 Marie Ln, North Mankato, MN 56003 Tel. (507) 625-8342
• MINNEAPOLIS 2801 North Douglas Drive Tel. (612) 544-2479
• ROCHESTER 2300 Viola Heights Drive NE Tel. (507) 281-6641
• ST. PAUL 2200 North Hadley Tel. (612) 770-3213

Sibley County Internet Links:

• Gibbon - GFW High School of Gibbon, Fairfax, and Winthrop.
• Winthrop - GFW High School of Gibbon, Fairfax, and Winthrop.
• St. Thomas of Jessenland- Irish Festival '98.
• Sibley East Schools - serves the residents of Arlington, Gaylord, and Green Isle Minnesota.
• Gaylord - Community homepage.
• Sibley County map - TIGER Map Service
• Sibley County NACo. - National Association of Counties (NACo)- has some good information on courthouse/cities/school districts
• Minnesota NACo. - National Association of Counties (NACo)
• Fort Ridgely - Minnesota Historical Society
• Joseph R. Brown Heritage Society - Henderson (http://www.jrb.org)
• Brown County Historical Society - New Ulm (http://BrownCountyHistoryMNUSA.org)

Neighboring MNGenWeb Counties: |Carver |Le Sueur | McLeod |Nicollet |Renville |Scott| (or select from above map)

Other Minnesota links:
Index to Minnesota Vital Records Offices: Vital Records information for Minnesota.

MHS Death Certificate Index Search: Minnesota Historical Society hosts this online index of death certificates to improve access to this popular and useful resource for genealogical and family history research. Currently, the database indexes the years from 1907 through 1996.

Other Genealogy links:
SEARCH FOR ANCESTORS: LDS Family History Center SEARCH FOR ANCESTORS.

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• Books and Lookups: Available books about Sibley County, its towns and history and were to find them.

• Newspapers: Sibley County newspaper archives and were to find them.

• Church Records: Listing of Church records of Sibley County available through the LDS Family History Centers.

• Century Farms: List of Century Farms of Sibley County and when they were founded.

• Civil War Records: A list of Civil War soldiers of Sibley County.

• Winthrop High: A list of Graduating names of Winthrop High School (1903 - 1950).

• Sibley County Cemeteries: A list of Sibley Co. cemeteries and locations.

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In March and April, 1996, a group of genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could be located in the index. This lead to the USGenWeb project of which Minnesota is a part.
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This page was last updated on: 8 Mar 2019