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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 Marley (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 Marley. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Marley is located in Lincoln County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lincoln County: Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome & Minidoka.

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Marley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marley, with the one closest to Marley listed first.
    • Richfield
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Besslen
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Besslen is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Besslen
    • Dietrich
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Shoshone
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Kimama
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Kimama is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimama
  • Blaine County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marley, with the one closest to Marley listed first.
    • Tikura
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Tikura is located in Blaine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tikura
    • Magic City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Magic City is located in Blaine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magic City
    • Picabo
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Gannett
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Gannett is located in Blaine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gannett
    • Carey
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Doniphan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Doniphan is located in Blaine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doniphan
  • Gooding County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marley, with the one closest to Marley listed first.
    • Gooding
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Wendell
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jerome County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marley, with the one closest to Marley listed first.
    • Jerome
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Falls City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Falls City is located in Jerome County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls City
    • Eden
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Hazelton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Marley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Marley.

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 Marley - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Richfield Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Richfield Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Richfield.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1890038 <2>
  • Dietrich Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Shoshone Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Shoshone Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Shoshone.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #386943 <2>
  • Picabo-Gannett Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Timmerman Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Elmwood Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Gooding.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80455 <2>
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Jerome Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jerome Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Jerome.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #663068 <2>
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Carey Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Adelaide Congregational Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adelaide Congregational Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Adelaide Congregational Cemetery is located 13 miles [20.9 km]<3> to the west of Minidoka.
      • The Adelaide Congregational Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Trinity Lutheran Church Graveyard
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2526998 <2>
    • Wendell Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Hazelton Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelton Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hazelton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Hazelton.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1976931 <2>

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 Marley in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Marley.

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

  • Shoshone
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Pagari
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Pagari is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagari
  • Owinza
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Owinza is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owinza
  • Tikura
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Tikura is located in Blaine County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tikura
  • Tunupa
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Tunupa is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunupa
  • Picabo
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Leduc ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Leduc is located in Blaine County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leduc
  • Carey
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Kimama
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Kimama is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimama

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

Newspapers Published in Marley ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Marley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Marley, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Marley.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Marley:

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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Marley) 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 Marley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.