[Contact: Webweaver] Renville County, Minnesota First created in 1855.
County Seat is Olivia.
Cities, towns and communities include:  Bechyn, Buffalo Lake, Danube, Fairfax, Franklin, Hector, Minnesota Falls, Olivia, Renville and Sacred Heart.

Renville County is located in southwest central Minnesota.  Neighboring Minnesota counties include:  Chippewa county to the northwest and north; Kandiyohi and Meeker counties to the north; McLeod and Sibley counties to the east; Nivollet, Brown, and Redwood counties to the south; and Yellow Medicin county to the west.

• Official Renville County, MN Page includes "A Little Renville History" from 1833.
• City of Olivia, Minnesota includes:
• History of Olivia and Historic Sites and Attractions.
• Olivia Postcards Online.
• Main Street Renville
• Renville County Genealogical Society
   P.O. Box 331 Renville, Minnesota 56284
  Archival Library at  the Renville Public Library.
• MNGenweb for Renville County Genealogy
• Reville County Links
• Renville Public Library
  
   221 N. Main Street - Renville, MN  56284
• The Political Graveyard for Renville County, Minnesota., includes memorial sites and information about politicians who were born, lived, or died in Renville County.
• Renville County, Minnesota Cemeteries, by Kimberly J Beecher Engelhardt.
• Renville County Historical Society
   Morton, MN 56270  Phone: (507) 697-6147.
• Olivia Public Library
    405 South 10th Street - Olivia, MN 56277  Phone: (320) 523-1738.
• Renville County Recorder (birth & death certificates, from 1870s, marriage licenses, property records &  probate)
  
   500 East Depue Avenue - Olivia, MN 56277  Phone: (320) 523-3669.
 
• State of Minnesota - North Star, Minnesota State Government Online.
• Department of Health
• How to order a birth or death certificate from the Minnesota Department of Health.
Contact the Minnesota Department of Health for certified Birth records from 1900 and certified Death records from 1908.  Certificates may be ordered by mail, phone, fax, and in person at the office.  There is a fee for obtaining birth or death certificates.
Minnesota Department of Health
  Attention: Vital Records
  717 Delaware Street Southeast
  P.O. Box 9441
  Minneapolis, MN  55440-9441
  Phone: 612-676-5120 (For birth records, press 4; For death records, press 5)
Records prior to these years, may be requested from the County  Registrar/Recorder in the county where the event occurred.
• Instructions on obtaining certificates of marriage or divorce decrees and index search.
• MN Dept. of Health list of County Registrars/Recorders: choose county

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Professional  Research
Ann McRoden Mensch, Professional Historical Genealogist
Researching onsight, and with the vast resources of The Allen County Public Library, holding one of the largest genealogical collections in North America.

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Printed resources for this page include:

School and Library Atlas of the World.  Fred W. Foster, Ph.D. (Editor).  Sycamore, Illinois:  School and Library Publishing Company.  1982.
 
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