Welcome to Beltrami County Minnesota Genealogy and History part of the Genealogy Trails Family 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 keeping Genealogy free 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.] DONATE YOUR DATA! 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! County Information Organized 1893 Its county seat is Bemidji. Portions of the Leech Lake and Red Lake Indian reservations are in the county. Beltrami County was named after the Italian count Beltrami, an early explorer of the area. In 1887 Beltrami County was part of one of the state s original nine counties, Becker County. The legislature authorized the creation of Beltrami County in 1893 with 137 townships. Nineteen townships were given to Roseau County in 1895, reducing Beltrami County to 118 full and 37 fractional townships. On May 17, 1897, Beltrami County was fully organized with Bemidji as the county seat. In 1902, Clearwater County was created by vote of the residents of Beltrami County. Twenty-eight full and two fractional townships went to the new county. On January 1, 1923, Lake of the Woods County was created. Townships: Cities  Alaska Township Battle Township Bemidji Township Benville Township Birch Township Buzzle Township Cormant Township Durand Township Eckles Township Frohn Township Grant Valley Township Hagali Township Hamre Township Hines Township Hornet Township Jones Township Kelliher Township Lammers Township Langor Township Lee Township Liberty Township  Maple Ridge Township Minnie Township Moose Lake Township Nebish Township Northern Township O'Brien Township Port Hope Township Puposky Township Quiring Township Roosevelt Township Shooks Township Shotley Township Spruce Grove Township Steenerson Township Sugar Bush Township Summit Township Taylor Township Ten Lake Township Turtle Lake Township Turtle River Township Waskish Township Woodrow Township  Bemidji Blackduck Funkley Kelliher Solway Tenstrike Turtle River Wilton Unorganized Upper Red Lake Brook Lake Shotley Brook North Beltrami Lower Red Lake Little Rock CDP Ponemah CDP Red Lake CDP Redby CDP 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: Oct. 2012: Marriages: Carver - Wilson; Ehllers - Larson; Muir - Lauxon Sept. 2012: Obits: Beck, McGill, Miller, Osterberg, Smith, Wallace Marriages: Adamson-Kienlen; Betts-Knox; Herbert-White; Latimer-Gjerald; Reynolds-Smith Local News: Bemidji (9 Oct. 1915) August 2012: Obits: Barker, Humbe, Nelson, Pryor, Tuller; Marriages: Clark - White; Wintersteen - Marin June 2012: Obit: Deming May 2012: Bios: Allen, Bagley Mar. 2012: 1870 Mortality Index; Obit: Ewert; Marriages: Ewert-Johnson; Nelson-Ewert; Engagements: Ewert-Johnson; Henrickson-Ewert, Nelson-Ewert; Anniversary: Ewert (25th); Bio: Clark Feb. 2012: bios: Crowell, Hodgdon; WW2 Army Honor List; Obits: Tenstrom, Towle; Marriages: Corrigan-Gould, Currier-Stornoen, Grubb-Dahl; sick list news: Oman Dec 2011: Death certificates for EWERT Previous Updates: Cold War Deaths; Ferris and Hannah Family Biographies; Obit for CLEMMER, BOLMER; 1908 Death Records, 1870 Federal Census SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper Midwestern States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. 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