Welcome to this Genealogy Trails website for Aitkin County Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. This website is available for adoption. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as we can make it. If you are interested in joining our group by hosting one of the available county websites, view our Volunteer Page for further information about us. [A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic webpage is required.] We welcome any information you may wish to provide for the free research of others. So, dust off those old scrapbooks you have in your attic, dig out those old newspapers, or anything else you feel is of interest to this County, and send them our way. We are looking for obituaries, newspaper stories, biographies, Birth, Death and Marriage records, as well as interesting newspaper tidbits from years gone past - the items YOU used to put together your family trees. If you have information that you'd like to share with us on the history of this county and its people, please send it to us and we'll make sure it gets posted online. We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for you. All data we come across is added to this site, so please keep checking back! Aitkin County was named after "William Alexander Aitkin", a fur trader for the American Fur Company, under John Jacob Astor. Aiken County originally consisted of the 17 townships closest to Mille Lacs Lake. It acquired out-lands of Ramsey and Pine Counties to its north and east. It was reorganized in 1871, taking up lands from Cass and Itasca Counties and losing a point located in the southwestern corner to Crow Wing County to form its current boundaries. County Information Organized May 23, 1857 as Aiken County. The spelling was changed to the current spelling in 1872 A portion of the Mille Lacs Indian Reservation is in the county. Townships: Cities Aitkin Township Ball Bluff Township Balsam Township Beaver Township Clark Township Cornish Township Farm Island Township Fleming Township Glen Township Haugen Township Hazelton Township Hill Lake Township Idun Township Jevne Township Kimberly Township Lakeside Township Lee Township Libby Township Logan Township Macville Township Malmo Township McGregor Township Millward Township Morrison Township Nordland Township Pliny Township Rice River Township Salo Township Seavey Township Shamrock Township Spalding Township Spencer Township Turner Township Verdon Township Wagner Township Waukenabo Township Wealthwood Township White Pine Township Williams Township Workman Township Aitkin Hill City McGrath McGregor Palisade Tamarack Unorganized Davidson Jewett Northeast Aitkin Northwest Aitkin  Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Mar. 2012: Bio: Haugen Feb. 2012: Selected Names from Death Index (1908-2002) Jan 2012: Gossip News; sick list for FINLEY Dec 2011: List of Cemeteries; Gossip News; Obits for ROSS, LARSON; 1883 pensioners; WW2 Casualties; death certificate for HARTLAND Previous Updates: 1860 Federal Census, 1880 Mortality Schedule, World War II Army Enlistments, Births in 1935, Deaths in 1908, 1909, 1910 SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Upper Midwest States of : North Dakota -- South Dakota -- Minnesota -- Wisconsin -- Michigan Adjacent Counties Itasca County (north) St. Louis County (northeast) Carlton County (east) Pine County (southeast) Kanabec County (south) Mille Lacs County (south) Crow Wing County (southwest) Cass County (northwest) VISIT THE NATIONAL SITE OF GENEALOGY TRAILS Visit MINNESOTA STATE PAGE Copyright ©Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.