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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 Ladoga (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 Ladoga. 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 doctors 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.

Ladoga is located in Montgomery County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Montgomery County: Boone, Clinton, Fountain, Hendricks, Parke, Putnam & Tippecanoe.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Ladoga ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ladoga.

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

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

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

  • Ladoga Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Stoner Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Inlow Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Harshbarger Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Roachdale Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Wesley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Hicks Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Wasson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • New Ross Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Finley Chapel Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • James Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
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    • Grider Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Hypes Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Porter Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)

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 Ladoga had a population of 875 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Ladoga had a population of 995 people.

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

  • Whitesville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Whitesville is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitesville
  • Roachdale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Linnsburg
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Linnsburg is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linnsburg
  • New Ross
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Lapland
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Lapland is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapland
  • Parkersburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Parkersburg is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersburg
  • Raccoon
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Raccoon is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raccoon
  • Barnard
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Mace
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • North Union
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • New Market
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • New Market is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Market
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 622 people
  • Carpentersville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Carpentersville is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpentersville
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Fincastle
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Fincastle is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fincastle
    • New Maysville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • New Maysville is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Maysville
    • North Salem
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Ladoga ...

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 135 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ladoga.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Ladoga. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Ladoga and those printed in the larger area surrounding Ladoga.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4> of Ladoga.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

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

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