Where to find North Dakota census records, immigration records,
land records, maps, vital records and more. The federal censuses
for the state of North Dakota start with 1900. Territorial
censuses and mortality schedules were taken in 1860, 1870, 1880
and 1885 for Dakota Territory. State censuses for 1905, 1915,
and 1925 are available at the State Historical Society of North
Dakota http://history.nd.gov . The 1915 and 1925 enumerations
are on Ancestry.com. The Division of Vital Records in Bismarck
holds statewide birth certificates from 1870, death certificates
from 1881, and marriages from July 1925. Online ordering is
available at http://www.ndhealth.gov/vital . Earlier marriages,
if registered,will be found with the county recorder in the
county in which the marriage license was issued. Divorces are
also in the hands of the pertinent county recorder. The legal
requirement to register vital events was generally complied with
by the mid-1920s. Compared to the rest of the country, North
Dakota was settled and