Do you live in or have ancestors from North Dakota? Join the North Dakota Project!

Question

DYK: North Dakota holds the Guinness World Record for the most snow angels made simultaneously in one place.

Are you interested in North Dakota history? Is North Dakota your home state or do you have family in/from North Dakota?  

If you want to join our North Dakota project, answer below and I will get the U.S. Project badge awarded to you. A minimum of 200 contributions is needed to join. Check out our project page to see how you can participate!

Thanks!

Comments

My father's side of my family lived in Nelson North Dakota and in Grand forks. There last name is Rockstad.

---

Would you be interested in joining the project?

Answer 1

I grew up, and still live, in North Dakota, as did my mother and her mother, my father and his mother, and a number of other relatives and ancestors. I am very proud to be from North Dakota!

Comments

That is great. My relatives migrated around the Devils Lake area. Would you like to volunteer for the North Dakota Project? I can square you away, if so.

---

Sure would like to do anything I can to help. I am quite new to actually using WikiTree (think I joined quite a while ago) but I would love to help!

---

Great, expect an email from me in 24 hours with more details.

---

My Mother's family homesteaded in Webster, close to Devil's Lake. The family names of Wilson Morse and Ella Mae Locke were my grandparents.

Answer 2

Born in Fargo, many relatives in ND.  Would love to help with this.

Comments

Great, expect an email from me in 24 hours with more details.

Answer 3

Little_Team_On_The_Prairie supports the North Dakota Project! 

It's one of the six states that this challenge team focuses on during the 'thons.

Comments

Outstanding!

Answer 4

My mother was born in Minot, ND and adopted by a couple living in Fargo.  We have found her biological mother's family and birth certificate.  However, it appears that her father listed may be erroneous.  

I would like to be involved in the North Dakota project.  Perhaps it would help me determine who was this Grandpa X.

How do I get started?

Comments

Great, expect an email from me in 24 hours with more details.

Answer 5

My grandparents lived in the Raleigh and Flasher area of North Dakota along with many of their relatives. My great-grandmother was the postmaster of Raleigh. I'd like to help, I've got some good genealogy records from my grandfather to help flesh them out. I have an extensive tree on Ancestry, and am trying to add them to WikiTree as I have time. I want to make sure I have reasonable sources first!

Comments

Great, expect an email from me in 24 hours with more details.

Answer 6

My grandparents homesteaded in Hebron, North Dakota in 1910. They were Germans from Russia. They were born in Borodino, Bessarabia, Russia. They traveled to North America on the George Washington ship to Ellis Island. They had 16 children in the Hebron and Hazen area. My grandmother's brother also homesteaded in Wing, North Dakota. North Dakota still has many of our family still living there. Would like to help on this project.

Comments

Great, expect an email from me in 24 hours with more details.

Answer 7

My father-in-law was born in Wahpeton, Richland County, North Dakota, United States. in 1914.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thomsen-1323

I am part of the United States Project and also the Global Project, Please add me to North Dakota Project.

My husband's Grandfather Thomas Jensen Thomsen (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thomsen-1338) raised his son Robert Ronald Thomsen (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Thomsen-1323) in Wahpeton, Richland County, North Dakota, United States. After moving there from Denmark. Thomas Jensen Thomsen served in the Military, He served in the North Dakota National Guard in the Spanish-American War, WW I in the Army, and remained in the Guard, reaching the rank of Lt. Colonel. He went on to form the first American Legion in Wahpetan, originally named after him.

Let me know if this is a help. Thomas Jensen Thomsen also met his wife, Emma Josephine Losinger (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Losinger-24) and they were married in they were married in Abercrombie, Richland, North Dakota,

Comments

Will add you! Thank you for volunteering.

Answer 8

Count me in! My mother's family were Russian Germans who settled in North Dakota (Dickinson) in the late 19th century

Comments

Outstanding, expect an email within the next 24 hours.

Answer 9

My GreatGreat Grandfather Francis Hannah with several brothers and other kin settled in the Dakota Territory in what is now the town of Hannah in Cavalier Co. right on the Canadian border. I would like to join the discussion

Answer 10

What if I don't want to join the project, because I feel I'm already spread too thin, but would be interested in creating a profile for a family friend who falls into a few sub-categories as he was a professor at UND, Mayor of Grand Forks, and a State Senator?  My siblings were all born in ND while my dad taught at UND for 11 years and we have/had a number of friends from ND but my connection to ND is not that strong.