Welcome to Pennington 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 November 23, 1910 Seat: Thief River Falls Largest city: Thief River Falls Parent County: Red Lake County. It was named after Edmund Pennington, president of the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway. Townships Cities Black River Township Bray Township Clover Leaf Township Deer Park Township Goodridge Township Hickory Township Highlanding Township Kratka Township Mayfield Township Norden Township North Township Numedal Township Polk Centre Township Reiner Township River Falls Township Rocksbury Township Sanders Township Silverton Township Smiley Township Star Township Wyandotte Township Goodridge St. Hilaire Thief River Falls Other Communities * Dakota Junction * Erie * Hazel * Highlanding * Kratka * Mavie 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: Apr. 2013: Obits: Dicken, Jacobson, Johnson, Lakin, Olson, Pitkin, Roach, Rod, Strande, Sversvold, Wade, Walker Marriages: Haug - Sather; Heiber - Whitten; Nelson - Hofto; Larson - Jesperson; Olson - Berg; Peterson - Hagness; Sagmoen - Furan August 2012: Obits: Beerbower, Knutson, Wold Apr. 2012: Bios: Bagley, Bakke, Barzen Mar. 2012: Bios: Grundy, Harlow, Olson; Marriage: Sando-Carlson Feb. 2012: WW2 Army Honor List; obit: Lee; Marriages: Antonson-Klabol, Dallager-Hovland, Foley-St. Claire, Holmstrom-Edlen, Kirby-Kezar, Kjomme-Campbell, Phelps-Jameson, Reese-Burgraff, Richter-Kittelson, Robbecke-Kennedy, Solberg-Schroeder, Sumpter-Conaway, Windeness-Glende; Bios: Bishop, Diebel Jan 2012: JOHNSON obit; gossip news; sick list news for ROWE; political news for CARLSON; Marriage announcements for SAGMOEN-WAHLBECK 1910-1915 Death records; Postcards of Thief River Falls;Obits for NORDHAGEN, RUX; Marriage Record for NORDHAGEN; List of Cemeteries 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 Marshall County (north) Beltrami County (east) Clearwater County (southeast) Red Lake County (south) Polk County (west) 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.