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 Grigston (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 Grigston. 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.
Grigston is located in Scott County.
To see how the shape of Kansas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Scott County: Finney, Gove, Kearny, Lane, Logan, Wallace & Wichita.
Below are the counties that are near Grigston. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Grigston:
- Scott County (The home county of Grigston)
- The following are listed by their distance from Grigston, with the one closest to Grigston listed first.
- Manning
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Manning is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
- Scott City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Modoc
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Modoc is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modoc
- Pence
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pence is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pence
- Finney County
- The following are listed by their distance from Grigston, with the one closest to Grigston listed first.
- Friend
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Friend is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friend
- Ravanna ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Ravanna is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
- Lane County
- The following are listed by their distance from Grigston, with the one closest to Grigston listed first.
- Amy ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Amy is located in Lane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amy
- Former name for Amy:
- Ellen
- Healy
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Dighton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Shields
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Shields is located in Lane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
- Alamota
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Alamota is located in Lane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
- Logan County
- Elkader
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Elkader is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkader
- Ness County
- Beeler
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Beeler is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
- Wichita County
- Marienthal
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Marienthal is located in Wichita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marienthal
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Grigston, see our County-by-County Page for Grigston.
Cemeteries Near Grigston ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grigston.
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 Grigston - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Grigston covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Grigston, with the one closest to Grigston listed first.
- Sutton Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Scott County Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Dighton Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- White Womans Grave
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Shields Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Pyramid View Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Prairie View Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Keystone Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Modoc Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Swedish Lutheran Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Scott Mennonite Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- White Rock Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Pence Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Emanuel Mennonite Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Ward Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ward Cemetery
- The Ward Cemetery has also been known as:
- Dole Cemetery
- Whipple Cemetery
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.<2>
While we didn't find Grigston in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Grigston.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Grigston, with the one closest to Grigston listed first.
- Manning
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Manning is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
- Healy
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Scott City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Dighton
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Shields
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Shields is located in Lane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
- Modoc
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Modoc is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modoc
- Elkader
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Elkader is located in Logan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkader
- Alamota
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Alamota is located in Lane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
- Pence
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Pence is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pence
- Ravanna ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Ravanna is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
- Beeler
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Beeler is located in Ness County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Grigston. See our List of 1890's Communities around Grigston.
Newspapers Published in Grigston ...
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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Grigston.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Grigston, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Grigston.
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 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 Grigston:
- Websites specific to Kansas
- Pages specific to Scott County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Finney County
- Lane County
- Logan County
- Ness County
- Wichita County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Kansas
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> | 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 Grigston, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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- Grigston) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |