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Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy
This site is available for adoption!
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.
We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online
and are interested in helping this website become a useful research
tool.
If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county,
please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim.
(A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are
necessary)
WE NEED COUNTY HOST VOLUNTEERS!!
If
you are interested in hosting a county, please view our volunteer information page and email Kim
WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE
TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU.
All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep
checking back.
Brief
History....
North Dakota is bordered on the north by the Canadian provinces of
Saskatchewan and Manitoba; on the west by Montana; on the south by
South Dakota; and on the east— across the Red River of the North and
the Bois de Sioux River— by Minnesota. The Missouri River flows through
the western part of the state, forming Lake Sakakawea behind the
Garrison Dam.
Farms and ranches stretch across the rolling plains from the Red River
Valley in the east to the rugged Badlands in the west. The geographic
center of the North American continent is located near Rugby.
Admitted as a
state: November 2, 1889
On March 2, 1861, President James Buchanan signed the bill creating the
Dakota Territory, which originally included the area covered today by
both Dakotas as well as Montana and Wyoming. The name was taken from
that of the Dakota or Sioux Indian Tribe. Beginning about 1877, efforts
were made to bring Dakota into the Union as both a single state and as
two states. The latter was successful and on November 2, 1889, both
North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted. Since President Benjamin
Harrison went to great lengths to obscure the order in which the
statehood proclamations were signed, the exact order in which the two
states entered is unknown. However, because of alphabetical position,
North Dakota is often considered the 39th state. Dakota is the Sioux
Indian word for "friend."
Capitol City: Bismarck, ND
State Motto: Liberty and Union Now and Forever, One and Inseparable
Nickname: Peace Garden
State - The International
Peace Garden straddles the international boundary between North Dakota
and the Canadian province of Manitoba. In 1956 the North Dakota Motor
Vehicle Department, on its own initiative, placed the words Peace
Garden State on license plates; the name proved so popular that it was
formally adopted by the 1957 legislature.
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