Courts create records that have value to genealogists, scholars, attorneys, local historians, and other researchers. This guide provides a brief overview to:
- Getting started in court records research
- District Courts - documenting civil and criminal disputes in the 87 counties in Minnesota
- Probate Courts - documenting the handling of wills and estates for deceased individuals and family matters in the 87 counties in Minnesota
- Minnesota Supreme Court and Minnesota Court of Appeals - higher courts where decisions from district courts are sometimes sent on appeal
- Other Minnesota courts - municipal courts, justice courts, courts of common pleas, family courts or divisions, juvenile courts, Tax Court, and Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals
- Federal courts - United States courts, including those in Minnesota, whose records are housed at the National Archives facilities