Welcome to Ransom County North Dakota 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.   Ransom County consists of 864 square miles, and, as of the 2000 Census, has a population of 5,890.  The city of Lisbon is the county seat.  Cities, Communities & Townships in Ransom County Aliceton Alleghany Bale Big Bend Casey Coburn Elliott Enderlin Englevale Fort Ransom Greene Hanson Island Park Isley Liberty Lisbon McLeod Moore Northland Owego Preston Rosemeade Sandoun Scoville Sheldon Shenford Springer Sydna Tuller   Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles History Marriages Military Newspaper Data Obituaries Mortality Schedules Wills/Probate Records  Newspapers Churches Website Updates: April 2012 Bios added for Fred D. Aplin, Hon. Harry S. Oliver, Warren H. Lamb, Thomas A. Curtis, James H. Summers, Tyler J. Walker, Theodore P. Slattum, Louis Lindstrum, Peter P. Goodman, Hans P. Grinager, William F. Grange, Hon. Andrew Sandager, Orvill E. Vosburg, Isaac J. Oliver, Charles S. Shank,  Easton K. Aus, William D. Bixby,  Albert Hauge,   Peter O. Peterson, James O. Wold, Hon. Emit S. Lovelace, Eberhardt O. Fausett, James P. Aylen, Joseph Goodman, Ole Erickson and Marion Grange  - Marriage Announcements- Obits for J. H. Johnson  and Edward Ash - Church and Newspaper History July 2011: community newspaper item; Pension granted news for WHISSON July 2010: Biographies for BUTLER, HECKLE; List of Cemeteries; 1903 County Description Previous Updates: Military Records; Mortality Schedule for 1880 and 1885 Surrounding Counties Cass (NE) Richland (E) Sargent (S) Dickey (SW) LaMoure (W) Barnes (NW) Visit our ND State Site Visit our National Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.