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North Dakota Birth, Marriage, & Death Records

North Dakota Birth Indexes & Birth Records

US – United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931, index

US – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images

North Dakota – North Dakota, Red River Valley Genealogical Society, Pioneer Files, 1880-1953, index links to images

Fort Berthold – Indian census rolls, Fort Berthold, 1889-1939 (birth, death, marriage, census, Arikara, Mandan, Atsina, Gros Ventres)

Fort Totten – Indian census rolls, Fort Totten, 1906-1939 (census, vital)

Standing Rock Agency – Births, marriages and deaths, 1880-1942 [Standing Rock Agency]

Turtle Mountain – Indian census rolls, Turtle Mountain, 1910-1939 (census, birth, marriage, death, Chippewa, Ojibwa)

North Dakota Marriage Indexes & Marriage Records

US – United States, GenealogyBank Historic Newspaper Marriages, 1815-2011, index links to images

US – United States Marriages, 1733-1990, index

US – United States Western States Marriage Index, index

North Dakota – North Dakota, County Marriages, 1872-1958, index & images

Fort Berthold – Indian census rolls, Fort Berthold, 1889-1939 (birth, death, marriage, census, Arikara, Mandan, Atsina, Gros Ventres)

Fort Totten – Indian census rolls, Fort Totten, 1906-1939 (census, vital)

Standing Rock Agency – Births, marriages and deaths, 1880-1942 [Standing Rock Agency]

Turtle Mountain – Indian census rolls, Turtle Mountain, 1910-1939 (census, birth, marriage, death, Chippewa, Ojibwa)

North Dakota Death Indexes & Death Records

US – U nited States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961, index

US – United States Deceased Physician File (AMA), 1864-1968, index & images

US – United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919, index links to images

US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images

US – United States Social Security Death Index, index

US – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images

US – United States, Panama Canal Zone, Index to the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary Registers, 1906-1991, index

North Dakota – North Dakota, Red River Valley Genealogical Society, Pioneer Files, 1880-1953, index links to images

North Dakota Territory – Mortality records : persons who died in the year ending 31 May, 1880, Dakota Territory …

Devils Lake Agency, BIA – Indian census rolls, Devils Lake Agency, 1885-1905 (death, census, Chippewa, Sioux)

Fort Berthold – Indian census rolls, Fort Berthold, 1889-1939 (birth, death, marriage, census, Arikara, Mandan, Atsina, Gros Ventres)

Fort Totten – Indian census rolls, Fort Totten, 1906-1939 (census, vital)

Standing Rock Agency – Births, marriages and deaths, 1880-1942 [Standing Rock Agency]

Turtle Mountain – Indian census rolls, Turtle Mountain, 1910-1939 (census, birth, marriage, death, Chippewa, Ojibwa)

Cemeteries

US – BillionGraves Index, index links to images

US – Find A Grave Index, index links to images

US – United States, Burial Registers for Military Posts, Camps, and Stations,1768-1921, index & images

US – United States, Cemetery Abstracts, 1949-1969, index links to images

US – United States Records of Headstones of Deceased Union Veterans, 1879-1903, index & images

US – United States Headstone Applications for U.S. Military Veterans, 1925-1949, index & images

North Dakota – North Dakota, Cemetery Records, 1877-1999, index links to images

North Dakota – Cemeteries of North Dakota

North Dakota – North Dakota, cemetery records, 1877-1999

Obituaries

US – United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011, index links to images

US – United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014, index & images

US – Currentobituary.com index, 2001-2014, index links to images

US – United States, Obituaries, American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1899-2012, index & images

North Dakota – North Dakota obituaries, 1992-2014

North Dakota – North Dakota, obituaries, 1929-2005

Wills & Probate

North Dakota – Heirship records, early 1900’s

North Dakota Residence Records

Census

1836 – The first census of the original counties of Dubuque and Demoine (Iowa): taken in July 1836

1848-1970 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images

1850 – United States Census, 1850, index & images

1860 – Dakota, 1860 federal census

1860 – North Dakota, federal census of Dakota Territory, 1860

1860 – United States Census, 1860, index & images

1870 – Dakota Territory, 1870 federal census

1870 – United States Census, 1870, index & images

1876-1939 – Census records, 1876-1939 [Standing Rock Agency]

1880 – Dakota, 1880 federal census

1880 – North Dakota, territorial census record, 1880

1880 – Special census of Indians, 1880

1880 – United States Census, 1880, index & images

1885-1905 – Devils Lake Agency, BIA – Indian census rolls, Devils Lake Agency, 1885-1905 (death, census, Chippewa, Sioux)

1885-1940 – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images

1889 – Lists of males over 18 years of age, 1889

1889-1939 – Fort Berthold – Indian census rolls, Fort Berthold, 1889-1939 (birth, death, marriage, census, Arikara, Mandan, Atsina, Gros Ventres)

1890 – United States Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War, 1890, index & images

1900 – North Dakota, 1900 federal census

1900 – United States Census, 1900, index & images

1900-1940 – United States Enumeration District Maps for the Twelfth through the Sixteenth US Censuses, 1900-1940

1906-1939 – Fort Totten – Indian census rolls, Fort Totten, 1906-1939 (census, vital)

1908-1910 – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images

1910 – North Dakota, 1910 federal census

1910 – United States Census, 1910, index & images

1910-1939 – Turtle Mountain – Indian census rolls, Turtle Mountain, 1910-1939 (census, birth, marriage, death, Chippewa, Ojibwa)

1915 – North Dakota Census, 1915, index & images

1915 – North Dakota state census schedules, 1915

1920 – North Dakota, 1920 federal census

1920 – United States Census, 1920, index & images

1925 – North Dakota Census, 1925, index & images

1925 – North Dakota state census schedules, 1925

1930 – North Dakota, 1930 federal census

1930 – United States Census, 1930, index & images

1940 – North Dakota, 1940 population census

1940 – United States Census, 1940, index & images

Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota

North Dakota Daily Life Records

Alumni, Schools, & Yearbooks

School records, 1886-1941

Biography

North Dakota, Red River Valley Genealogical Society, Pioneer Files, 1880-1953, index links to images

Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota

Compendium of history and biography of North Dakota containing a history of North Dakota : embracing an account of early explorations, early settlement, Indian occupancy…and a concise history of growth and development of the state also a compendium of biography of North Dakota

Historical data project; pioneer biography files

History of North Dakota : embracing a relation of the history of the state from the earliest times down to the present day, including biographies of the builders of the commonwealth…

History of the great northwest and its men of progress : a select list of biographical sketches and portraits of the leaders in business, professional and official life

Illustrated album of biography of the famous valley of the Red River of the north and the park regions : including the most fertile and widely-known portions of Minnesota and North Dakota

Lest we forget

Mothers of North Dakota : pioneers, educators, home builders, church workers and civic leaders–mothers all

North Dakota history and people, outlines of American history

North Dakota, pioneer files, 1800’s-1953

North Dakota, Red River Valley Genealogical Society, pioneer files, 1880-1953

Pioneer mothers project records, ca. 1938-1953 and n.d.

Saga Íslendinga Norður-Dakota

Who’s who for North Dakota : a triennial, a biographical directory

The World War I diary of Major James Martin Hanley

North Dakota, Fargo Forum biography index, 1800’s-1900’s

Church

Church and family records from Bisbee, North Dakota

Church records, 1886-1919

North Dakota, pastor records, 1843-1918

North Dakota, W.P.A., guide to church and public records, 1941-1942

Church survey files

Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota

Highlights and heartaches of Brethren pioneers, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin

History of the Church of the Brethren on the northern plains

Minnesskrift 1858-1908 tillegnad Minnesota-Konferensens af Ev. Luterska Augustana-Synoden 50års jubileum den 7-11 oktober 1908

Description & Travel

A Dictionary of Dakota : conveniently arranging a multitude of facts about the resources and capabilities of the great territory soon to become two states

The International Peace Garden

The new Northwest : a pamphlet stating briefly the advantages of Bismarck and vicinity : soil, timber, climate, settlements, business, &c., &c

Employees, Officials, & Occupations

United States National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel Files, 1954-1970, index

United States Casualties of Army Personnel, Dependents and Civilian Employees, 1961-1981, index

North Dakota blue book

Ethnic Records

African American Records

US – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American)

US – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American)

US – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American)

US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc)

US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court)

US – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal)

Japanese American Records

United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images

Native American Records

United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images

United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images

United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images

United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images

Devils Lake Agency, BIA – Indian census rolls, Devils Lake Agency, 1885-1905 (death, census, Chippewa, Sioux)