Welcome to Koochiching 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 Founded December 19, 1906 Named for: Koochiching is an Ojibway word meaning "neighbor lake and river" for Rainy Lake and Rainy River. Seat: International Falls Largest city: International Falls It is next to the largest of the 87 counties, exceeded only by St. Louis county. Koochiching is also next to the youngest in the state, having been created in 1906 after its residents voted to separate from Itasca county. A portion of the Bois Forte Indian Reservation is in the county. Cities * Big Falls * International Falls * Littlefork * Mizpah * Northome * Ranier Unorganized * Rainy Lake * East Koochiching * South Koochiching * Northome * Northwest Koochiching * Nett Lake Unincorporated * Birchdale * Bramble * Central * Craigville * Ericsburg * Forest Grove * Frontier * Gemmell * Grand Falls * Indus * Island View * Lindford * Loman * Margie * Nett Lake * Pelland * Pinetop * Rauch * Ray * Silverdale * Wildwood Ghost Towns * Border * Fairland * Falls Junction * Gates Corner * Jameson * Laurel * Manitou * Nakoda * Rainy Lake City * Ridge * South International Falls * The Pines * Wayland 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 Wedding Anniversaries Website Updates: Jan. 2013: Obits: Anderson, Archer, Beemer, Johnson, Lynch, McGill, Recupero, Rorvek, Steinback, Sullivan Marriages: Aal - Feldman; Berg - Lang; Bloomfield - Raucher; Hanson - Hicks; Harwood - Balmer; Howard - Olson; Johnson - Cotton; Jones - Praught; LaValley - Thompson; Leseman - Foss; Lindsay - Goedman; Logan - Sullivan; Straite - Haskell; Sweet - Leek; Wilson - Johnson; Marriage License: Fickle - Berg Anniversary: 40th for Kahle Community News for International Falls - 18 Aug. 1915 and 20 Dec. 1916 July 2012: Obit: Pomeroy June 2012: Obits: Barry, Meurch, Strauss Apr. 2012: Bio: Greeley Mar. 2012: Obits: Billmyre, Drummond, Green, Smith; International Falls History (1915) Bio: Brozich; crime & "sick list" news Feb. 2012: Death Index 1910-1915 Dec 2011: List of Cemeteries; Crime News; Court News from 1907 Previous Updates: World War II Casualties SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Upper 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 St. Louis County (east) Itasca County (south) Beltrami County (southwest) Lake of the Woods 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.