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Welcome To Martin County, Minnesota

Did you know...

...that you can have your Martin Co. surnames and queries listed?! Please click on the "Queries" link above!
...that you can have your Martin Co. homepage listed here?! Please let us know what you'd like to have listed by sending an email to Mike Borchardt
...Martin County was created in 1857 from parts of Faribault and Brown Counties?
...the Martin County Recorder has birth records from 1874 to date, marriage records from 1864 to date, death records from 1879 to date, and land records?
...according to the U.S. Census Bureau, Martin County, MN, had a 1990 population of 22,914 and is located at 43.67715 N, 094.55672 W?
...the history of Fairmont, the county seat? See "Local History" as copied with permission from the Vistitors' Bureau brochure.
...if you plan on visiting Fairmont to do family research, you can get help finding what accomodations are there by visiting the Fairmont Conv. & Visitors Bureau website at www.fairmont.org or calling 1-800-657-3280.
...what the Martin Co. map looked like in 1895? Click here to find out!

Martin County Links

Martin County 150th Year Anniversary site -- help create an exciting site to celebrate the 150th year (1857-2007) of Martin Co.!
Minnesota Casualties in World War II -- lists all counties in Minnesota.
Minnesota Biographies -- maintained by Tim Stowell. Thanks, Tim!
MN Historical Society's Death Certificate Index -- Search for MN deaths by soundex.
Rootsweb's Martin Co MN Mailing List -- Here are step-by-step instructions on how to subscribe and unsubscribe to this valuable research tool!
The Fairmont Sentinel -- find out what's happening in Martin County.
The Martin County Genealogical Society, Inc. -- contact them and join today. They can help you research your Martin County families.
The Martin County Historical Society -- a great source for Martin County history.
"Pleasant Prairie School 1895 History" Read about the Pleasant Prairie Township school and its students of 1895.
The USGenWeb Archives Search Engine -- search all the archived material on the USGenWeb Archives by state.
Downloadable source data from the USGenWeb Archive site for Minnesota
Lookup Volunteers for the MNGenWeb -- Volunteers have listed their names and resources available for lookups for Minnesota and other countries.
Vital Records Information - Minnesota Links to each county with addresses, costs of a query, etc. for each location.
Alibris -- find that out-of-print book and order it.
Park Genealogical Books' "Research Notes" webpage -- lots of interesting items updated monthly to help out Minnesota researchers.
Minnesota censuses -- contains all Minnesota counties and URLs that lead to the various census info on line for the counties.
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites: States - Minnesota
Viet Nam Veterans' Memorial Wall - a searchable database of more than 58,000 names found on The Wall
Iroquois Co., IL (USGenWeb) - a site dedicated to a county from which, as I recently learned from Loretta Krumwiede Barlow, "many many people...went to Martin County".
Will Co., IL (USGenWeb) - Steve Kamm wrote: "You might consider adding a link to Will Co., IL, because a number of "German" farmers moved from there to Martin Co.--as did my Hartmann ancestors!"
Thanks for the suggestion, Steve!
Personal homepages with information on Martin County families:

The Borchardt Family - with information on BORCHARDT, KUENLE, ROWLEY, MCQUEEN and STEFFEN families.

Huebner Genealogy Page - the HINES family is documented by Herb Huebner. The HINES family settled in the Pleasant Prairie township area of Martin County.

Flentje and Daly Genealogy Research - contains information on JASKULKE and LAABS families of Martin County. Maintained by Chad K. Flentje.

Garrison Family Page - this family is documented by Denise back to the 1800s.

Hudson Family Page - this site is maintained by Jerry Longstrom and also contains information on the Brawford, Comstock, Wickham, Shaver and Young families.

The Thiemann Family, Part I (on tripod.com) and

The Thiemann Family, Part II (on familytreemaker.com) - these sites are maintained by Roger Thiemann and contain Martin Co. history dating back to 1894.

"William Cross' Diaries" If you are an early Martin Co., Minnesota, researcher, you HAVE to check out this site. This is the result of countless hours of transcribing by Robbi Hoy of Grandfather William Cross' diaries, which, as Robbi writes, "...were written at Rose lake and they range from 1881 through I believe 1904."

Martin County Addresses

Martin County Genealogical Society, Inc.
222 E. Blue Earth Ave
Fairmont, MN 56031
(Membership includes quarterly "Tree Climber" newsletter, a library, and 12 meetings per year.

Martin County Historical Society
304 E. Blue Earth Ave.
Fairmont, MN 56031
(507)235-5178

Martin County Courthouse
County Recorder
201 Lake Ave.
Fairmont, MN 56031-1845
(507)238-3213

Fairview Memorial Park (1948-date)
714 S. Prairie Ave.
Fairmont, MN 56031
(507)235-3208
Carl Beckendorf, Owner/Manager

Lakeside Cemetery (1871-date)
900 Fairlakes Ave.
Fairmont, MN 56031
(507)238-1932
Chuck Hamsmith, Secretary

Tenhassen Cemetery (1858-date)
RR 1, Box 65
Ceylon, MN 56121-9801
H.W. Barnett, Secretary & Treasurer

Neighboring Counties

Martin Co.

Listing them clockwise starting from the west side:

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 US GENWEB of which Minnesota is a part.

Volunteers are needed who are willing to coordinate the collection of databases and generally oversee the contents of the web page.

My name is Mike Borchardt and I am the person responsible for the Martin Co., Minnesota page. If you would like to contribute your information (surnames/lookup sources) to this page, please let me know. We would like to see lots of volunteers available to do lookups. We'll list you on the lookup page if you own resources and would be willing to help others via email or US mail. Or if you would like to host a Minnesota county, contact Terri Fonken.

You are our 92763 visitor since 8 March 1997 -- thanks for stopping by!

Copyright 1998, 2009 by Mike Borchardt / Forest Grove, OR / mikeborchardt@hotmail.com
This page last modified -- Friday, 13-Feb-2009 22:37:53 MST