Resources

There are many websites with genealogy-related info for North Dakoka family history research. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources about Stark County ancestors, please share them with us.

• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• FindAGrave
• National Register of Historic Places
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• North Dakota Courts
• State Historical Society of North Dakota
• Stark County ND Historical Society
• Historic Map Works - Stark County (plat maps are available to view online at no charge)
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Stark County
• Ghost Towns of North Dakota - LeFor
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• North Dakota Newspaper Association
• Digital Horizons [offers many more homestead photos than listed here]

• Frank PRAUS Farm - 14 photos, 1974
• Jacob KASBERG Farm - 47 photos, 1975
• William KENNEDY Home - 1 photo, 1900s
• Rudolph KITZAN Home - 10 photos, 1978
• Anton LEFOR Home - 35 photos, 1975-1976
• Thomas LEFOR Farm - 18 photos, 1976
• Margaret McDERMOTT JENNINGS Homestead - Interior 1, Interior 2, Exterior 1, Exterior 2
• PECHTL Home - 12 photos, 1971
• SABO Farm - 13 photos, 1975

• SCHARICK Home - 12 photos, 1974
• Schefield Garage - 6 photos, 1975
• Paul SCHIWAL Farm - 8 photos, 1974
• Andy SCHNEIDER Farm - 15 photos, 1975
• John STICKA Farm - 30 photos, 1975
• Ludwig STICKA Home - 8 photos, 1971
• Pete WEHNER Farm - 12 photos, 1975
• WEINSCHROTT Farm - 6 photos, 1975
• WIEGLANDA Ranch Farmhouse - 1 photo, 1990

• Internet Archive
• Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3 "Stark County North Dakota, number of Swedes in, 1900, 306." page 759, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7
• 1883 List of Pensioners on the Roll, January 1, 1883 Volume 4
• 1889 The State of North Dakota Statistical, Historical, and Political Abstract
• 1900 Compendium History and Biography of North Dakota
• 1909 Blue Book of North Dakota by North Dakota Department of State
• 1914 Standard Atlas of Stark County, North Dakota
• 1915 North Dakota Banker "I don’t believe that the eastern part of the state ever has or does at this time appreciate the advantages and the natural resources of this section of the state. They have the best resources for clay manufacture in the state; they have the Missouri River; and I was talking to a gentlemen from Stark county and he said they have never had a total crop failure in that county, ...." --W. D. McClintock, Vice President of North Dakota Bankers Association, Vol. 3, No.10, page 2
• 1915 North Dakota Agricultural College Alumni Directory
• 1916 "Dickinson, Queen City of the Prairies" promotional booklet
• 1917 North Dakota History and People Volume 1, Volume 2
• 1919 Early History of North Dakota by Clement A. Lounsberry
• 1942 North Dakota Blue Book
• 1950 North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1973 Reprint, "Smaller racial groups in the State include Hollanders, in Emmons County near the south-central border; Danes, in the east-central counties of Cass, Barnes, and Stutsman; Poles and Icelanders, in the northeast section; Hungarians, in the Slope area; Czechs, in Richland and Walsh Counties in the Red River Valley and in Stark County in the Slope area; and many others, all showing a distinct tendency to localize." Page 90
• 1957 Souvenir Program of the Frontier Cavalcade, 1882-1957: Dickinson, N.D.
• 1958 75th Anniversary Jubilee 1883-1958: Richardton, North Dakota
• 1958 University of the Northern Plains; a History of the University of North Dakota, 1883-1958 by Louis G. Geiger
• 1960 History of the Methodist Church in North Dakota and Dakota Territory
• 1960 The Catholic Church in Western North Dakota 1738 - 1960 [not available free to read online as of June 2025]
• 1967 North Dakota Geography and Early History by Bernt Lloyd Wills
• 1977 Atlas of Stark County, North Dakota
• 1978 Chronology and Documentary Handbook of the State of North Dakota
• 1980 Pioneers and Their Sons: One Hundred Sixty Five Family Histories by George P. Aberle Volume 1, Volume 2
• 1982 Gladstone Centennial: 1882-1982
• 1982 Centennial Roundup: A History of Dickinson, North Dakota by Janell Cole [not available free to read online as of June 2025]
• 1985 Plains Country Towns
• 1995 History of North Dakota by Elwyn B. Robinson "The Western Land Securities Company of St. Paul was active in Stark County." Chapter 12, The Second Boom, page 243
• 1995 Blue Book of North Dakota
• 1996 Land in Her Own Name: Women as Homesteaders in North Dakota by H. Elaine Lindgren [not available free to read online as of June 2025]
• City of Dickinson government website
• HonorStates
• Facebook has several helpful groups such as North Dakota Genealogy, North and South Dakota Norwegians - Genealogy, North Dakota State Genealogical Society, North Dakota Genealogy! Just Ask! and North Dakota Genealogy Network and the list goes on.
• LookUp Volunteer Patrice Hartman will check her Index to articles in the Dickinson Press, from its beginning on 31 March 1883 to August of 1898. Her Index includes births, marriages, deaths, and obituaries. You can find the articles online at various places, such as Chronicling America.

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