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 Porthill (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 Porthill. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Porthill is located in Boundary County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Boundary County: Bonner, Lincoln (MT), Sanders (MT) & Pend Oreille (WA).

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

• Boundary County     (The home county of Porthill)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Porthill, with the one closest to Porthill listed first.
  • Eastport
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastport
    • Eastport is located in Boundary County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eastport <1>
  • Bonners Ferry
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonners Ferry
    • Bonners Ferry is located in Boundary County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,693 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bonners Ferry <1>
  • Moyie Springs
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moyie Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moyie Springs
    • Moyie Springs is located in Boundary County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 795 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moyie Springs <1>
  • Naples
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naples
    • Naples is located in Boundary County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Naples <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Porthill ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Porthill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Porthill, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Porthill.

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 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 Porthill:

• Websites specific to Idaho
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //history.idaho.gov/idaho-state-archives

• Pages specific to Boundary County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Idaho
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cemeteries of Boundary County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cemeteries of Boundary County

Cemeteries Near Porthill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Porthill.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

• IOOF Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the IOOF Cemetery
• Pioneer Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
• Copeland Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Copeland Cemetery
• Forest Lawn Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Forest Lawn Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Erickson (BC).
  • The Forest Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Forest Lawn Municipal Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Lawn Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2180752 <4>
• Grandview Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grandview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80490 <4>
• Moravia Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moravia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moravia Cemetery
• Paradise Valley Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paradise Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paradise Valley Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Porthill. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Boundary County: www.boundary-idaho.com/

The official website for State of Idaho: www.state.id.us/