Swift County MN Genealogy

USA (1,380,571) > Minnesota (27,591) > Swift County (219)

If you're not sure which records would be helpful, you can try our Ancestor Source Finder tool. Swift Records by Type Birth Records (5) Cemetery Records (55) Census Records (50) Church Records (28) City Directories (1) Death Records (4) Histories and Genealogies (3) Immigration Records (5) Land Records (9) Map Records (14) Marriage Records (4) Military Records (1) Minority Records (1) Miscellaneous Records (1) Newspapers and Obituaries (25) Probate Records (1) School Records (12)

Overview of Swift County Records

• Swift County was created in 1870 from Chippewa County.
• Birth records from 1900 to the present and death records from 1908 to the present can be obtained from the Minnesota Department of Health.
• The Swift County Treasury has birth records starting in 1870, marriage records starting in 1871, and death records starting in 1872.
• The Swift County Clerk Courts has divorce records, court records starting in 1874, and probate records starting in 1873.
• The Swift County Recorder has land records starting in 1871.
• Online indexes and images of some of the above records can be found by using the links on this site.