Welcomes You
to this Genealogy Trails website
for Lake of the Woods County!
This County website 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 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 and then contact Kim.
[A desire to transcribe data and knowledge of how to make a basic
webpage is required.]
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 are looking for biographies, birth and death
records, obituaries, newspaper stories, family history - the items YOU used to put together your family trees.
We regret we cannot do personal research for you.
Lake of the Woods County is located in the northern
part of the state, bordering Roseau, Beltrami and Koochiching Counties, Division No. 1 of Manitoba and Kenora District
of Ontario, Canada.
Lake of the Woods County was organized on November 28, 1922 when
a vote by area residents separated the northern townships from Beltrami County. On January 1, 1923, the county
officially began operations at its county seat in Baudette. Read a short history at the County Website (off-site
link)
