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 Tennis (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 Tennis. 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 southwest 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 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.
Tennis is located in Finney 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 Finney County: Grant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Lane & Scott.
Below are the counties that are near Tennis. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tennis:
- Finney County (The home county of Tennis)
- The following are listed by their distance from Tennis, with the one closest to Tennis listed first.
- Friend
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Friend is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friend
- Rodkey ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Rodkey is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodkey
- Holcomb
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Garden City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Pierceville
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Pierceville is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
- Ravanna ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Ravanna is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
- Gray County
- Charleston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Charleston is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
- Kearny County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tennis, with the one closest to Tennis listed first.
- Deerfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Lakin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lane County
- Amy ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Amy is located in Lane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amy
- Former name for Amy:
- Ellen
- Scott County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tennis, with the one closest to Tennis listed first.
- Scott City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Modoc
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Modoc is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modoc
- Manning
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Manning is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
- Wichita County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tennis, with the one closest to Tennis listed first.
- Marienthal
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Marienthal is located in Wichita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marienthal
- Coronado
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Coronado is located in Wichita County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coronado
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Tennis, see our County-by-County Page for Tennis.
Cemeteries Near Tennis ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tennis.
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 Tennis - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Tennis covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tennis, with the one closest to Tennis listed first.
- Prairie View Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Hulpieu Homestead Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Toper Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toper Cemetery
- The Toper Cemetery has also been known as:
- Jewish Cemetery
- Topper Cemetery
- Valley View Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley View Cemetery
- The Valley View Cemetery has also been known as:
- Garden City Cemetery
- Emanuel Mennonite Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Kaye Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Deerfield Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Deerfield Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Deerfield.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #92283 <3>
- Deer Field Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lydia Methodist Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Scott County Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Eminence Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Sutton Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lydia Lutheran Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lakin Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakin Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lakin Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Lakin.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #92848 <3>
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.<4>
While we didn't find Tennis in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tennis.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Tennis, with the one closest to Tennis listed first.
- Garden City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Deerfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Mansfield
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Mansfield is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mansfield
- Scott City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Pierceville
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Pierceville is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
- Lakin
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Plymell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Plymell is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymell
- Modoc
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Modoc is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modoc
- Charleston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Charleston is located in Gray County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
- Ravanna ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Ravanna is located in Finney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
- Manning
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Manning is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Tennis. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tennis.
Newspapers Published in Tennis ...
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 67 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tennis.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tennis, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tennis.
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 helpful 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 Tennis:
- Websites specific to Kansas
- Pages specific to Finney County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Gray County
- Kearny County
- Lane County
- Scott 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Tennis) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Tennis, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |