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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Kersey (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Kersey. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Kersey is located in Weld County.

To see how the shape of Colorado's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Weld County: Adams, Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer, Logan, Morgan, Kimball (NE) & Laramie (WY).

Below are the counties that are near Kersey. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kersey:

  • Weld County     (The home county of Kersey)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kersey, with the one closest to Kersey listed first.
    • Spanish Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Spanish Village is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Village
    • Gill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Garden City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Garden City is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 279 people
    • Hardin
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Hardin is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardin
    • La Salle
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Galeton
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Lucerne
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Evans
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Greeley
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Eaton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Gilcrest
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Ault
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Adams County
    • Brighton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Larimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kersey, with the one closest to Kersey listed first.
    • Kerns
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Kerns is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerns
    • Timnath
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Loveland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Berthoud
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Campion
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Campion is located in Larimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campion
    • Fort Collins
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kersey, with the one closest to Kersey listed first.
    • Orchard
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Wiggins
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Kersey, see our County-by-County Page for Kersey.

Cemeteries Near Kersey ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kersey.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Kersey - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Kersey covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kersey, with the one closest to Kersey listed first.

  • Linn Grove Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Evans Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Sunset Memorial Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Eaton Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Ault Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Mizpah Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mizpah Cemetery
    • Former name for Mizpah Cemetery:
    • Sandhill Cemetery
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lakeview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Windsor.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #277751 <2>
  • Johnstown Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnstown Cemetery
    • Former names for Johnstown Cemetery:
    • Dilley Chapel Cemetery
    • Elwell Cemetery
  • Briggsdale Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Francis Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Burbridge Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...
    • Hillside Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Timnath Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Mountain View Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the northeast of Nunn.

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

While we didn't find Kersey in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kersey.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Kersey, with the one closest to Kersey listed first.

  • La Salle
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Hardin
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Hardin is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardin
  • Evans
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Greeley
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Eaton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Hillsboro
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Hillsboro is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro
  • Platteville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Masters
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Masters is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masters
  • Roggen
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Pierce
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Windsor
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Windsor is located in Weld County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 27,659 people
    • Former names for Windsor:
    • New Liberty
    • New Windsor
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Windsor <1>
  • Hudson
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Timnath
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Fort Lupton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Highland Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Highland Lake is located in Weld County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Lake

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kersey. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kersey.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Kersey ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 53 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kersey.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Kersey. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Kersey and those printed in the larger area surrounding Kersey.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3> of Kersey.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Kersey:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kersey) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Kersey, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.