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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 Fremont Center (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 Fremont Center. 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 Fremont Center ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Fremont Center: Fremont Ctr. (or less commonly used: Fremont Cen., Fremont Cent. or Fremont Cntr.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Fremont Center. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Fremont Center.

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Fremont Center is located in Lake County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lake County: Cook, McHenry, Allegan (MI), Berrien (MI), Van Buren (MI) & Kenosha (WI).

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

  • Lake County     (The home county of Fremont Center)
  • Cook County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fremont Center, with the one closest to Fremont Center listed first.
    • Barrington
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Capri Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Capri Village is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capri Village
    • Inverness
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Barrington Hills
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Barrington Hills is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrington Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,152 people
    • Palatine
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Wheeling
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Plum Grove Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Plum Grove Village is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plum Grove Village
    • Winthrop Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Winthrop Village is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winthrop Village
    • Arlington Heights
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Fairfax Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Fairfax Village is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax Village
    • Rolling Meadows
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Prospect Heights
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • DeKalb County
  • DuPage County
  • Kane County
  • McHenry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fremont Center, with the one closest to Fremont Center listed first.
    • Island Lake
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Island Lake is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,951 people
    • Lakemoor
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Holiday Hills
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Holiday Hills is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 574 people
    • Oakwood Hills
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Oakwood Hills is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,011 people
    • Barreville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Johnsburg
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Pistakee Highlands
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Pistakee Highlands is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pistakee Highlands
    • Sunnyside
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Sunnyside is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
    • Cary
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Cary is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cary
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,929 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cary <1>
    • Fox River Grove
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Prairie Grove
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Prairie Grove is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,920 people
    • McHenry
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Kenosha County (WI)
  • Racine County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fremont Center, with the one closest to Fremont Center listed first.
    • Bohners Lake
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Bohners Lake is located in Racine County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bohners Lake
    • Union Grove
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Union Grove is located in Racine County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,266 people
    • Browns Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Browns Lake is located in Racine County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Lake
    • Burlington
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Burlington is located in Racine County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burlington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,898 people
    • Eagle Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Eagle Lake is located in Racine County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Lake
    • Sturtevant
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Mount Pleasant
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Mount Pleasant is located in Racine County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 27,048 people
    • Yorkville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Yorkville is located in Racine County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkville
    • Elmwood Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Walworth County (WI)

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

Cemeteries Near Fremont Center ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fremont Center.

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 Fremont Center - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Fremont Center had a population of 43 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Fremont Center ...

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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fremont Center.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fremont Center, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fremont Center.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Fremont Center:

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>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 Fremont Center, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fremont Center) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.