Moody County SD Genealogy

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Overview of Moody County Records

• Moody County was created in 1873 from Brookings and Minnehaha counties.
• Birth, marriage, death, and divorce records from 1905 to the present can be obtained from the South Dakota Department of Health.
• The Moody County Registrar of Deeds has birth and death records starting in 1905, as well as burial and land records starting in 1873.
• The Moody County Treasury has marriage records starting in 1876.
• The Moody County Clerk Court has probate records starting in 1890, court records starting in 1905, divorce records, and newspapers starting in 1880s.
• Online indexes and images of some of the above records can be found by using the links on this site.