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INDEX
North Dakota Banat Families

abstracted from the 1900 and 1900 Federal Census
of Stark, Hettinger, Dunn, Mercer and Morton Counties
by David Dreyer

of San Francisco, California
© copyright 1996, 1997 by David Dreyer and FEEFHS; all rights reserved


Latest Update: 15 March 1997 (Links updated)

This is the web site index for the listing of Banat surnames from abstracted from the North Dakota Federal Census of Stark, Hettinger, Dunn, Mercer, and Morton Counties for 1900 and 1910.

This summary of the data represents all Banaters enumerated in these counties with the exception of a handful of young hired men and women working for non-Banater families and women who married non-Banater men (mostly Germans from Russia).

In 1900 Stark county occupied a large part of Southwestern North Dakota. Between 1900 and 1910 Stark County was partioned to create Hettinger, Dunn, a rump of Stark with a fragment going to Morton County North Dakota.

Spelling of the names was checked, so far as was possible, against contemporaneous lists in: The spelling for those surnames followed by a question mark have not been verified from another source.

Author's Note: I solicit corrections for those names with uncertain spelling.
Please send these to me at the following address:

David Dreyer
2325 Donegal Street
South San Francsico, California 94080-
Telephone: (415) 588-6518
Sorry, no eMail address as of now. :-)

Data on towns of origin was taken largely from "North Dakota Pioneers from the Banat" by J. M. Michels. This book is also a useful guide to the townships covered by the study. (It apparently includes all of the township maps). The initial letter in the place code indicates the county and is followed by the township and range.

The townships given in the census varies somewhat from those of the township maps in Michels and those given in Kieter's directory. This must be ascribed to the lack of signposts on the North Dakota prairies in the 1900 to 1910 period to guide the census enumerator.

Please also see: Banat family research in North Dakota Please see this letter from David Dreyer to Bob Madler of 2 January 1996 for additional insights into the subject of Banat family research in North Dakota.

To summarize, the abbreviations for the first column (place) reflect county or town , township and range.
Abbreviations for these North Dakota counties include: Examples:
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Banat surnames begining with the letters A through K (31K size)

Banat surnames begining with the letters L through Z(32K size)

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