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Search Free South Dakota Genealogy and Family History Records Online including census, cemetery, vital, military and other genealogical and historical records that can be used for your family history research.

Our South Dakota genealogy and family history page is a place where you can come in and research your genealogy and family history. We also do our best to provide a history of the area, to provide you with an overview of the time in which your ancestors lived.

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Free South Dakota Genealogy Records By County

CountyDate FormedParent CountyCounty Seat
Aurora County1879BrulePlankinton
Beadle County1879Spink, ClarkHuron
Bennett County1909Indian LandsMartin
Bon Homme County1862Charles MixTyndall
Brookings County1862Dakota TerritoryBrookings
Brown County1879BeadleAberdeen
Brule County1875Dakota TerritoryChamberlain
Buffalo County1873Dakota TerritoryGannvalley
Butte County1883HardingBelle Fourche
Campbell County1873BuffaloMound City
Charles Mix County1862Dakota TerritoryLake Andes
Clark County1873HansonClark
Clay County1862Dakota TerritoryVermillion
Codington County1877Indian LandsWatertown
Corson County1909Indian LandsMcIntosh
Custer County1875Indian LandsCuster
Davison County1873HansonMitchell
Day County1879ClarkWebster
Deuel County1873BrookingsClear Lake
Dewey County1873, 1910Indian Lands, ArmstrongTimber Lake
Douglas County1873Charles MixArmour
Edmunds County1873BuffaloIpswich
Fall River County1883CusterHot Springs
Faulk County1873Dakota TerritoryFaulkton
Grant County1873Codington, DeuelMilbank
Gregory County1862YanktonBurke
Haakon County1914StanleyPhilip
Hamlin County1873DeuelHayti
Hand County1873BuffaloMiller
Hanson County1871Buffalo, DeuelAlexandria
Harding County1909Dakota TerritoryBuffalo
Hughes County1874BuffaloPierre
Hutchinson County1862Dakota TerritoryOlivet
Hyde County1873BuffaloHighmore
Jackson County1914StanleyKadoka
Jerauld County1883AuroraWessington Springs
Jones County1916LymanMurdo
Kingsbury County1873HansonDe Smet
Lake County1873Brookings, HansonMadison
Lawrence County1875Dakota TerritoryDeadwood
Lincoln County1862MinnehahaCanton
Lyman County1873Dakota TerritoryKennebec
Marshall County1885DayBritton
McCook County1873HansonSalem
McPherson County1873BuffaloLeola
Meade County1889LawrenceSturgis
Mellette County1909LymanWhite River
Miner County1873HansonHoward
Minnehaha County1862Dakota TerritorySioux Falls
Moody County1873Minnehaha, BrookingsFlandreau
Pennington County1875Dakota TerritoryRapid City
Perkins County1909Harding, ButteBison
Potter County1875BuffaloGettysburg
Roberts County1883GrantSisseton
Sanborn County1883MinerWoonsocket
Shannon County1875Fall RiverHot Springs
Spink County1873HansonRedfield
Stanley County1873Dakota TerritoryFort Pierre
Sully County1873PotterOnida
Todd County1909 Winner
Tripp County1873Dakota TerritoryWinner
Turner County1871LincolnParker
Union County1862Dakota TerritoryElk Point
Walworth County1873BuffaloSelby
Washabaugh County   
Yankton County1862Dakota TerritoryYankton
Ziebach County1911Schnasse, Sterling, ArmstrongDupree


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