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Welcome To Dakota County, Minnesota - MNGenWeb

Dakota County is named for the Native American Dakota people. "Dakota" best translates into "The Friends". So, a friendly welcome to all visiting this free site in search of Dakota County genealogical information.

Dakota County, now located in the southern part of the Saint Paul & Minneapolis metropolitan area, is one of the original 9 counties of the Minnesota Territory of 1849. At first, Dakotah County, later Dakota, stretched from the Mississippi to Missouri rivers. The county was greatly reduced in size a few times before Minnesota statehood (1858). This site focuses on genealogical information of that reduced area from 1907 to as far back as we can go.

Recent news (3 months):
2007 Jul 07 - 5 surnames added

Archives
List of various on-line data
Books & Newspapers
County Genealogical Books & Newspapers.
Cemeteries
Listing and clickable map.
Census
Clickable List
Cities & Townships
Links to Cities & Townships, current and historic.
County Map 2000 (Cities & Townships)
County Coordinators: MNGenWeb Dakota County, Minnesota:
Chuck Dosh 2003-
Tom Wilde 1997-2003
Vicki Albu 1996-1997
Genealogical Societies
List
Government
County (Vital, Birth, Marriage & Death records)
Cities
Social Security Death Index (SSDI) (off-site)
County seat: Hastings (off-site).
History & Historical Societies
History
Societies
Libraries
County Libraries (off-site)
South Saint Paul Library (off-site), next door to DCHS (off site), has excellent Minnesota books.
Lookups
Consider being a Volunteer.
Volunteers willing to do look-ups
Books We Own - Minnesota (off-site)
Mailing Lists
Mailing list - RootsWeb.com (off-site)
Maps
2000 County Map - Cities & Townships
List of historic maps
USGS Query Form (off-site) for entire U. S.
  Useful for finding county associated with a city.
Military
List of 1883 pensioners
Naturalization/Citizenship
DCHS Research Library (off-site)
Queries and Messages
Sites to post Dakota County questions and exchange data.
cousinconnect.com (off-site)
genforum.genealogy.com (off-site)
rootsweb.com/ancestry.com (both off-site)
* June 2001, ancestry.com and rootsweb.com merged query boards.
Religious Organizations
List, over 240 of them.
Schools
TBD
Search
Search this site
Surnames
List of surnames and their researchers.
Add your surname interest
Tips
Tips to help you in Dakota County
Volunteers
How you can help with this Dakota County web-site.
How you can help with other MN web-sites.
Neighboring Genealogical Sites
List of neighboring sites
or click on the map below.
Map of Dakota County, Minnesota Genealogical County Links
etc.
Non-genealogical Dakota County websites.
Wikipedia

Other genealogical Dakota County websites (Compare this to the competition).
Cyndi's List - U.S. - Minnesota - Dakota (off-site)
Dakota County (off-site)
Dakota County, Minnesota (off-site)
Dakota County Local Minnesota History and Genealogy (off-site)
Family History Library Catalog (off-site)
Genealogy Today, Dakota, Minnesota (USA) (off-site)
Vital Records Information - Dakota County (off-site)
Web Sites at RootsWeb - Dakota MN (off-site)


The term "off-site" is used with a link to imply you are leaving MNGenWeb/USGenWeb pages.
This site brought to you by the Jack Webb school of web site design, "Just the facts, Ma'am".

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