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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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 Posted - 05/09/2013 : 19:12:21
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Originally posted by jkmarler
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Originally posted by lenzoarlene
records in Grand Forks ND destroyed by flood), .
You are misinformed. Here's a link to Grand Forks county marriages seach engine pre 1925ish:
http://webapp.und.edu/dept/library/Collections/searchMarriageLic.php
As to Lakota, I've never heard of a courthouse fire. Here's what Handybook for genealogists says paraphrasing:
Clerk of Court has m[arriages] from 1880.
Arlene,
I've just gotten off the phone with the marriage records offices of both Nelson County (Lakota is the county seat) and Grand Forks County.
It is as I wrote above, there never was a fire in the Nelson county courthouse which destroyed marriage records. The person I spoke to said the marriage records to at least the 1890s are available at the courthouse. In Grand Forks county, no marriage records were lost to the flood of 1997.
As to the fire there is a popular and erroneous myth that the state capitol building fire of 1930 destroyed vital records. It did not. Marriage records are found in the county where they were generated, and birth and death certificates of the time were housed in a different building. The reason why expected vital records might be absent is probably due more to North Dakotans "rugged individualism" --noncompliant attitude than man-made or natural disasters.
Here is a link to the page of county marriage offices contact. They do charge fees to get the certificates:
North Dakota county offices for marriage:
http://www.ndhealth.gov/vital/marriage.htm
Good Luck!
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