Cottonwood County, Minnesota:
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Projects

• Cottonwood County Genealogy and History      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Cottonwood County Minnesota      (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Cottonwood County MNGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Brown County, MN  to the northeast
• Jackson County, MN  to the south
• Martin County, MN  to the southeast
• Murray County, MN  to the west
• Nobles County, MN  to the southwest
• Redwood County, MN  to the north
• Watonwan County, MN  to the east

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Biographies for Cottonwood and Watonwan Counties, Minnesota      (Source: Online Biographies)
• Cottonwood County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Cottonwood County, Minnesota Biographies      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• History of Cottonwood and Watonwan counties, Minnesota  Volume 2     (Source: Internet Archive)

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Cottonwood County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Cottonwood County  Minnesota Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Cottonwood County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Cottonwood County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Cottonwood County, MN Cemeteries      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• New Home Mennonite Church Cemetery  Rosehill Township     (Source: Germans From Russia Living in the Dakotas)
• Old Soldiers Monument  Lakeview Cemetery Windom     (Source: Germans From Russia Living in the Dakotas)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)
• St. John's Lutheran Cemetery  east of Mountain Lake     (Source: Germans From Russia Living in the Dakotas)

Census Records and Indexes (27)

Court and Legal Records

• Bench and Bar of Cottonwood County 
• Cottonwood County Courthouse 

History

• Cottonwood County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Cottonwood County Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• History of Cottonwood and Watonwan counties, Minnesota  Volume 1     (Source: Internet Archive)
• History of Cottonwood and Watonwan counties, Minnesota  Volume 2     (Source: Internet Archive)
• National Register of Historic Places 

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Carlton, Carver, Cass, Chippewa, Chisago, Clay, Clearwater, Cook, Cottonwood and Crow Wing County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Cottonwood County Storms      (Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • Windom, Minnesota Weather History      (Source: Weather Underground)
  • Windom, MN Train Collision, Sep 1899      (Source: GenDisasters)

Introduction and Guides (10)

Land Records

• Land Patent Search      (Source: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office)
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907  Cottonwood County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Cottonwood County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Cottonwood County, Minnesota     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Cottonwood County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Cottonwood County, MN Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• MNCOTTON-L Cottonwood County genealogy

  • MNCOTTON-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • MNCOTTON-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • MNCOTTON-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (39)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Cottonwood County, Minnesota     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Cottonwood County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Cottonwood County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Cottonwood County, Minnesota  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Cottonwood County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Cottonwood County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Cottonwood County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Cottonwood County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Cottonwood County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• Sentinel Tribune  Westbrook, Minnesota     (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)
• Westbrook Sentinel      (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)
• Westbrook Sentinel  Jun 7, 1956 - May 28, 1964     (Source: Google News Archive)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Cottonwood County Citizen 
• Cottonwood County Citizen      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Cottonwood County obituaries      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Mountain Lake Observer  and Butterfield Advocate

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Cottonwood County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Cottonwood County Historical Society Images  Minnesota Reflections
• Historical Postcards of Cottonwood County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

School Records and Histories

• Windom School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Search Engines and Searchable Databases

• Minnesota Official Marriage System  Cottonwood County     (Source: Minnesota Official Marriage System)

Societies

• Cottonwood County Historical Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (25)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: Family History Library)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Cottonwood County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Cottonwood County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Cottonwood County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Cottonwood County, Minnesota     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Cottonwood County  Minnesota Births
• Cottonwood County Births      (Source: Minnesota Births)
• Cottonwood County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Minnesota Marriages  Cottonwood County     (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Minnesota Official Marriage System  Cottonwood County     (Source: Minnesota Official Marriage System)
• Minnesota, County Birth Records  1863-1983     (Source: Family History Library)
• Minnesota, County Marriages  1860-1949     (Source: Family History Library)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Cottonwood County, Minnesota     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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