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 Gilbert (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 Gilbert. 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 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.
Gilbert is located in Saint Louis 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 Saint Louis County: Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake & Douglas (WI).
Below are the counties that are near Gilbert. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Gilbert:
- Saint Louis County (The home county of Gilbert)
- The following are listed by their distance from Gilbert, with the one closest to Gilbert listed first.
- McKinley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- McKinley is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKinley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 122 people
- Genoa
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Genoa is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
- Eveleth
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Midway
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Midway is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Belgrade
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Franklin
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Franklin is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
- Virginia
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Leonidas
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Leonidas is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leonidas
- Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
- Biwabik
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ramshaw
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Ramshaw is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramshaw
- Mountain Iron
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Pineville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Pineville is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineville
- Iron Junction
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Iron Junction is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Junction
- Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
- Itasca County
- Keewatin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Keewatin is located in Itasca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keewatin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,010 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Gilbert, see our County-by-County Page for Gilbert.
Cemeteries Near Gilbert ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gilbert.
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 Gilbert - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Gilbert covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Gilbert, with the one closest to Gilbert listed first.
- Gilbert Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Eveleth Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Florenton Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Rauha Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Forest Hill Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Czechoslovakian National Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- West Pike Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Bethel Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Forbes Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pike River Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Sandy Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Continue List (26 more) ...
- Lake View Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View Cemetery
- The Lake View Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lakeview Cemetery
- Zim Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Embarrass Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
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>
While we didn't find Gilbert in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Gilbert.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Gilbert, with the one closest to Gilbert listed first.
- Midway
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Midway is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Hinsdale
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hinsdale is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinsdale
- Tower Junction
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Tower Junction is located in Saint Louis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower Junction
- Tower
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Soudan
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Gilbert. See our List of 1890's Communities around Gilbert.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Gilbert ...
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 Gilbert.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Gilbert. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Gilbert and those printed in the larger area surrounding Gilbert.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4> of Gilbert.
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 websites either 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 Gilbert:
- Websites specific to Minnesota
- Pages specific to Saint Louis County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Minnesota
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 Gilbert, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Gilbert) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |