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
Courts create records that have value to genealogists, scholars, attorneys, local historians, and other researchers. This guide provides a brief overview to: