Welcome to Ward County ND History and Genealogy Presented by 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. County Information Townships Afton Anna Baden Berthold Brillian Burlington Burt Cameron Carbondale Carpio Denmark Des Lacs Elmdale Eureka Evergreen Foxholm Freedom Gasman Greely Greenbush Harrison Hiddenwood Hilton Iota Flat Kenmare Kirkelie Linton Lund Mandan Margaret Maryland Mayland McKinley Nedrose New Prairie Newman Orlien Passport Ree Rice Lake Rolling Green Ruthville Ryder St. Marys Sauk Prairie Sawyer Shealy Spencer Spring Lake Sundre Surrey Tatman Tolgen Torning Vang Waterford Willis       Villages, Towns and Cities Berthold Burlington Carpio Des Lacs Donnybrook Douglas Kenmare Makoti Minot Ryder Sawyer Surrey Aurelia - "ghost town" south of Donnybrook Drady Foxholm - small community in the Des Lacs Valley north of Burlington Gassman - founded as the Gassman Creek Coulee trestle was being built, now referred to as "Trestle Valley" Hartland - "ghost town" north of Berthold Hesnault Lonetreee - small 100 person community northwest of Des Lacs and southeast of Berthold Logan - small community south of Minot and north of Sawyer in the Souris River Valley Rice Lake - small community around Rice Lake south of Minot Rice Lake Park Ruthville - small community created due to construction of the northward-nearbyly Minot Air Force Base South Prairie - small community with modern school, south of Minot Wolseth - diminishing community, south of the Renville County border, and Granville Historical areas: Harrison - early sister community of Minot, annexed into Minot Waldorf - annexed into Minot boundaries in its early years Roach - railroad siding Ralston - railroad siding Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: April 2012 Obits for Marion D. Brown, Mable Christensen, Mrs. J. B. Crow, Even G. Johnson, Lien, W. R. Montgomery, Carl Schultz and James Willars- Several Marriage Announcements- Bios for Eric R. Ramstad, George W. Wilson and Joseph Jacobson- History Aug 2011: DIGNAN obit July 2011: burials in Sunset Memorial and Rosehill cemeteries July 2010: Bios for BOND, CALNAN, ENGLUND, GEIGER, LAMBERT, MILLER, SMITH, THOMPSON; List of Cemeteries June 2009: Obits for BALLY, DRAKE, MISIALEK; Military Records Mailing Lists 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. Surrounding Counties Renville County (north) McHenry County (east) McLean County (south) Mountrail County (west) Burke County (northwest)         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.