Welcome to Griggs County ND History and Genealogy Presented by North Dakota Genealogy Trails a part of Genealogy Trails 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 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 it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists North Dakota is covered under our "Upper Midwest" States mailing list. Created by the 1881 territorial legislature and organized on June 16, 1882.  The county was named for Alexander Griggs of Grand Forks who was a Red River steamboat man and local entrepreneur.  County Seat: Cooperstown from 1882 to the present. Townships: *Addie *Ball Hill *Bartley *Broadview *Bryan *Clearfield *Cooperstown *Dover *Greenfield *Helena *Jessie *Kingsley *Lenora *Mabel *Pilot Mound *Romness *Rosendal *Sverdrup *Tyrol *Walum *Washburn *Willow Cities: *Binford *Cooperstown *Hannaford Unincorporated Communities: *Jessie *Sutton   Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Forgotten Towns Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Legal Records Website Updates: July 2010: RYAN biography Previous Updates: List of Cemeteries; Military Data  Surrounding Counties Nelson County (north) Steele County (east) Barnes County (south) Stutsman County (southwest) Foster County (west) Eddy County (northwest)   Visit our ND State Site Visit our National Site Copyright ©2009 Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.