Welcome to Traill 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 research for you. 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. Mailing List 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. County Information Traill county was created in 1875 by the 1874-75 territorial legislature. It was named after Walter John Strickland Traill, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company and son of Canadian pioneer Catharine Parr Traill. Townships Belmont Bingham Blanchard Bloomfield Bohnsack Buxton Caledonia Eldorado Elm River Ervin Galesburg Garfield Greenfield Herberg Hillsboro Kelso Lindaas Mayville Morgan Norman Norway Roseville Stavanger Viking Wold Villages, Towns and Cities Buxton Clifford Galesburg Hatton Mayville Portland Reynolds Blanchard Cummings Caledonia Hillsboro   Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Mortality Schedules Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Sep 2011: LEE obit July 2011: HEPNER obit July 2010: Biographies for BURNETT, COLTOM, DEAN, ELKEN, ELLINGSON, KRAABEL, SORLIE; List of Cemeteries Previous Updates: Military Records; 1880 and 1885 Mortality Schedules; obit for GIERKE Surrounding Counties Grand Forks County (north) Polk County, Minnesota (northeast) Norman County, Minnesota (east) Cass County (south) Steele County (west) 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.