Grand Forks County

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Grand Forks County History

A note regarding East Grand Forks

Researchers should note that East Grand Forks is a separate city from Grand Forks.  EGF is in Polk County Minnesota, across the border (Red River of the North) from Grand Forks ND.  Polk County MNGenWeb.  EGF has never had a hospital and until the mid-1960s did not have a cemetery (Resurrection). If you believe a birth/death/burial was "in East Grand Forks" before the 1960's, you should try North Dakota Vital Records. 

    ~ thank you to Jon Raymond for suggesting this tip

Grand Forks County ND Queries
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County & Regional Information Sources and Databases

• Grand Forks County Archives
  Includes:
• Cemetery Transcriptions (work in progress)
• Biographies Index (work in progress)
• 1880 Census Images
  for those using the 1880 LDS Index click HERE for file conversions to the Archives image files
• 1883 Veterans & Widows Census (work in progress)
• 1900 Census Images
• 1910 Census Images
• 1920 Census Images
• 1930 Census Images
• Populated Places (work in progress)
• Townships (work in progress)
• BLM Records
• Funeral Homes
• Churches
• Township Map (work in progress)
• Grand Forks County in the World War Index
• Civil War Veterans Post No. 6 of G.A.R. Veterans
• Grand Forks County Government Homepage
• The University of North Dakota (why yes, that is Sioux green wallpaper!)
• Clerk of Court
• Register of Deeds
• Newspapers of Grand Forks County
• Grand Forks County Historical Society
• The Political Graveyard: Grand Forks County ND
• National Register of Historic Places - Grand Forks County, ND
• Red River Valley Genealogical Society
• Grand Forks entries in Nordmændene i Amerika
• Alumni Matters a database of 35,000 graduates from the Grand Forks public school system
• Mailing List Join the mailing list, or do a search.

State Genealogy Resources

Surname Resources

• Grand Forks County Surnames
• Rootsweb Surname Boards

For help with surnames, try the Rootsweb Surname Helper Search to search message boards and websites for your surname.

• RootsWeb Surname Email List Finder
• Grand Forks County Surnames (work in progress)

Maps

• County Location Map
• City of Grand Forks -- 1920
• 1888 Territorial Map
• North Dakota -- 1895
• 1895 Atlas, North Dakota with county images and information on towns and cities
• North Dakota from the Library of the University of Texas at Austin
• Historic Map Works.com – has fantastically detailed township maps!  Type a township name into the search field and enjoy the results.

Can't find that place? Give these websites a try:

• U.S. Gazetteer
• USGS Mapping Information – Geographic Names Data Base Query Form

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