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 Williams Lake Resort (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 Williams Lake Resort. 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.
Name Variations for Williams Lake Resort ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
- A typical abbreviation for Williams Lake Resort: Williams Lk. Resort
- While the name of this community is Williams Lake Resort, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Williams Lake Resort may originally have been William's Lake Resort.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Williams Lake Resort might be written as William Lake Resort.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 doctors and 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.
Williams Lake Resort is located in Lemhi 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 Lemhi County: Butte, Clark, Custer, Idaho, Valley, Beaverhead (MT) & Ravalli (MT).
Below are the counties that are near Williams Lake Resort. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Williams Lake Resort:
- Lemhi County (The home county of Williams Lake Resort)
- The following are listed by their distance from Williams Lake Resort, with the one closest to Williams Lake Resort listed first.
- Salmon
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salmon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salmon
- Salmon is located in Lemhi County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,182 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salmon <3>
- Cobalt
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobalt
- Cobalt is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cobalt <3>
- Tendoy
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tendoy
- Tendoy is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tendoy <3>
- Carmen
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carmen have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmen
- Carmen is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Carmen <3>
- Leesburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest) - Lemhi
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemhi have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemhi
- Lemhi is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemhi <3>
- North Fork
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
- North Fork is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for North Fork <3>
- May
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for May have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
- May is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for May <3>
- Shoup
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoup have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoup
- Shoup is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shoup <3>
- Custer County
- Ellis
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellis have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
- Ellis is located in Custer County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ellis <3>
- Ellis
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Williams Lake Resort, see our County-by-County Page for Williams Lake Resort.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Williams Lake Resort:
- 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 Lemhi County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Custer County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Custer County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Idaho
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Idaho
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Idaho
- Cemeteries of Lemhi County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Idaho
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Idaho
- Cemeteries of Lemhi County
Cemeteries Near Williams Lake Resort ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Williams Lake Resort.
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).
- Chief Tendoy Gravesite
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Chief Tendoy Gravesite is located outside and to the southeast of Tendoy.
- The Chief Tendoy Gravesite has also been known as:
- Chief Tendoy Burial Ground
- Chief Tendoy Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chief Tendoy Gravesite
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80431 <4>
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.<5>
While we didn't find Williams Lake Resort in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Williams Lake Resort.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Williams Lake Resort, with the one closest to Williams Lake Resort listed first.
- Leesburg
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest) - Ellis
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellis have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
- Ellis is located in Custer County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ellis <3>
- Shoup
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoup have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoup
- Shoup is located in Lemhi County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shoup <3>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Williams Lake Resort. See our List of 1890's Communities around Williams Lake Resort.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Williams Lake Resort. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Idaho: www.state.id.us/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 Williams Lake Resort, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |