Welcome to PEMBINA 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. Pembina County was formed on August 12, 1867.  According to wikipedia.org, "Pembina" is derived from the Chippewa Indian term for high bush cranberry which grew in abundance along the Pembina River.   The city of Pembina was the county seat from 1867 to 1911 when it was moved to Cavalier.    According to the 2000 Census, Pembina County Population is 8,585.   Cities, Communities & Townships in Pembina County Advance Akra Backoo Bathgate Beaulieu Canton City Carlisle Cavalier Concrete Crystal Drayton Elora Felson Gardar Hamilton Joliette La Moure Lincoln Lodema Midland Mountain Neche Park Pembina Pittsburg St. Joseph St. Thomas Thingvalla Walhalla   Online Data Baptisms Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Court Records Deaths Family Bibles Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Wills     Mortality Schedules   Website Updates: 1883 Pensioners; FRAZIER bio; Baptisms; 1886-1903 Lutheran Marriages; 1870-80 Mortality Schedules Surrounding Counties: Walsh County (south)   Cavalier County (west) Kittson County Minnesota (east) 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.