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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 Goodridge (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 Goodridge. 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 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.

Goodridge is located in Pennington 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 Pennington County: Beltrami, Clearwater, Marshall, Polk & Red Lake.

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

  • Pennington County     (The home county of Goodridge)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goodridge, with the one closest to Goodridge listed first.
    • Erie
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Erie is located in Pennington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erie
    • Thief River Falls
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Saint Hilaire
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Saint Hilaire is located in Pennington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Hilaire
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 258 people
  • Beltrami County
    • Four Town
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Four Town is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Town
  • Marshall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goodridge, with the one closest to Goodridge listed first.
    • Espelie
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Espelie is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Espelie
    • Grygla
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Gatzke
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Gatzke is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatzke
    • Holt
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Holt is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
    • Middle River
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Newfolden
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Newfolden is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newfolden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 363 people
    • Viking
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Viking is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viking
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goodridge, with the one closest to Goodridge listed first.
    • Trail
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Trail is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
    • Gully
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Gully is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gully
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
  • Red Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goodridge, with the one closest to Goodridge listed first.
    • Plummer
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Plummer is located in Red Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plummer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
    • Oklee
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Brooks
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Brooks is located in Red Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
    • Red Lake Falls
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Goodridge ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Goodridge.

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

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

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

  • Goodridge Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Telemarken Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Rosindhall Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Germantown Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Ekelund Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Reiner Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jerusalem Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Star Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Bethania Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Oak Park Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Ebenezer Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Espelle Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (84 more) ...
    • Bethlehem Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Emanuel Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Little Oak Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)

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 Goodridge in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Goodridge.

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

  • Holt
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Holt is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holt
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
  • Viking
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Viking is located in Marshall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viking
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Goodridge ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Goodridge.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Goodridge. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Goodridge and those printed in the larger area surrounding Goodridge.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of Goodridge.

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 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 Goodridge:

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 Goodridge, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Goodridge) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.