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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 Alvwood (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 Alvwood. 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 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.

Alvwood is located in Itasca County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Itasca County: Aitkin, Beltrami, Cass, Koochiching & Saint Louis.

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

  • Itasca County     (The home county of Alvwood)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alvwood, with the one closest to Alvwood listed first.
    • Squaw Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Dora Lake
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Dora Lake is located in Itasca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora Lake
    • Max
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Wirt
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Wirt is located in Itasca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wirt
    • Spring Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Talmoon
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Bowstring
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Bowstring is located in Itasca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowstring
    • Bigfork
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Marcell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Effie
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Beltrami County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alvwood, with the one closest to Alvwood listed first.
    • Funkley
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Funkley is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funkley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
    • Shooks
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Shooks is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shooks
    • Blackduck
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Langor
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Langor is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langor
    • Kelliher
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hines
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Pennington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Tenstrike
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Quiring
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Quiring is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quiring
    • Turtle River
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Turtle River is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Saum
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Saum is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saum
    • Nebish
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Nebish is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nebish
  • Cass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alvwood, with the one closest to Alvwood listed first.
    • Ryan Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Ryan Village is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Village
    • Bena
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Cass Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Koochiching County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alvwood, with the one closest to Alvwood listed first.
    • Northome
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Mizpah
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Mizpah is located in Koochiching County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mizpah
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
    • Gemmell
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Gemmell is located in Koochiching County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gemmell
    • Margie
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Margie is located in Koochiching County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Margie

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

Cemeteries Near Alvwood ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Alvwood.

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

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

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

  • Bergville Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Moose Park Twp. Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Rosy Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Oakum Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Popple Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • North Round Lake Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Forest Hill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • South Round Lake Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Peter & Eva Niska Memorial Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Squaw Lake Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Grattan Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (41 more) ...
    • St. Joseph Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Summit Twp. Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Mizpah Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Alvwood ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Alvwood.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Alvwood, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Alvwood.

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 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 Alvwood:

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 '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- Alvwood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.