Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

• About the NDGenWeb Project
• NDGenWeb Project Resources
• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
  • North Dakota Census, 1915
  • North Dakota Census, 1925
  • North Dakota Manifests of Immigrant Arrivals 1910-1952
  • North Dakota, County Marriages, 1872-1958
  • North Dakota, Cemetery Records, 1877-1999
  • North Dakota, Red River Valley Genealogical Society Pioneer Files, 1880-1953
  • Wiki
• FindAGrave
• National Register of Historic Places info and photos of Episcopal Church of the Good Shepard, Nesheim Bridge, Old Settler's Pavilion, and Tofthagen Library Museum
• USGS GNIS - Geographic Names Information System
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• North Dakota Courts
• Nelson County - government website
  • County Recorder & Clerk of Court
• Nelson County - Vital Records
• Libraries
  • Lakota City Library
  • Nelson County Public Library
• Nelson County Historical Society is located in Lakota. They operate the Stump Lake Village Pioneer Museum in Pekin. More info is available at Facebook.
• State Historical Society of North Dakota
• Historic Map Works - many plat maps are available to view online at no charge
• MapGeeks
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Ghost Towns of North Dakota - Mapes
• Digital Horizons - has loads of great North Dakota history including county and town histories
  • Aneta Diamond Jubilee, 1896-1971
  • Diamond Jubilee, Pekin, North Dakota: 75 years, 1906-1981
  • Lakota, North Dakota, 1901, a promotional booklet
  • Lakota ... 100 Years, 1883-1983
  • Lakota's 75 Years: Lakota Diamond Jubilee, 1883-1958
  • McVille, North Dakota, 1906-1981
  • McVille, North Dakota: Community Fact Survey
  • Michigan City Centennial, 1883-1983
  • Michigan, North Dakota: Community Fact Survey
  • Nelson County History, 1985 -  Volume 1   Volume 2
  • Petersburg Diamond Julilee, 1882-1957
  • Pioneer Stories, 1925
  • 75th Anniversary: Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 1901-1976 - in Tolna
  • 75th Anniversary of Michigan in North Dakota, 1883-1958
  • Tolna & Tolna Community: Bicentennial History, 1906-1976
  • 25 Years of Grace: Grace Lutheran Church, 1949-1974
• Newspapers
  • Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
  • North Dakota Newspaper Association
• Obituaries
  • ObitCity
  • ObituaryCentral
  • GenealogyBuff
  • GenealogyTrails
• Internet Archive
  • 1889 The State of North Dakota Statistical, Historical, and Political Abstract
  • 1900 Compendium History and Biography of North Dakota
  • 1917 North Dakota History and People Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3
  • 1923 Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, Volume 5
    
  • 1985 Plains Country Towns
• Volunteer Arnfinn Kjelland [email protected] will do lookups from the bygdeboks for the Norwegian parishes Lesja and Lom of Gudbrandsdalen, Norway
• The Ancestor Hunt
• NDFamilyHistory Query Board and Mailing List at groups.io
• Queries
• Facebook has several helpful groups such as North Dakota Genealogy, North and South Dakota Norwegians - Genealogy, North Dakota State Genealogical Society, North Dakota Genealogy! Just Ask! and North Dakota Genealogy Network and the list goes on.
• List of Churches by Mary Lindbo
• List of Funeral Directors by Mary Lindbo
• Cemeteries of North Dakota, volume 12, published in 1975 by the Red River Valley Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 9284, Fargo, ND 58106-9284, lists Nelson County burials

Links to web sites that are not part of the USGenWeb Project are provided for your convenience and do not imply any endorsement of the websites or their contents by the USGenWeb Project.

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