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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 Nary (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 Nary. 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 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.

Nary is located in Hubbard 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 Hubbard County: Becker, Beltrami, Cass, Clearwater & Wadena.

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

  • Hubbard County     (The home county of Nary)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nary, with the one closest to Nary listed first.
    • Laporte
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Lake George
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Benedict
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Benedict is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benedict
    • Akeley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Nevis
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Dorset
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Dorset is located in Hubbard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorset
  • Becker County
    • Two Inlets
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Two Inlets is located in Becker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Inlets
  • Beltrami County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nary, with the one closest to Nary listed first.
    • Rosby
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Rosby is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosby
    • Bemidji
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Lavinia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Lavinia is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavinia
    • Wilton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Wilton is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
    • Turtle River
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Turtle River is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Pennington
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Solway
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Puposky
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Puposky is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puposky
    • Tenstrike
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Pinewood
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Pinewood is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood
    • Hines
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Nebish
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Nebish is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nebish
    • Blackduck
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Cass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nary, with the one closest to Nary listed first.
    • Cass Lake
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Walker
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Ah-gwah-ching
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Ah-gwah-ching is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ah-gwah-ching
    • Ryan Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Ryan Village is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Village
    • North Central Cass
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • North Central Cass is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Central Cass
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 29 people
    • Bena
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Federal Dam
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Whipholt
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Whipholt is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipholt
  • Clearwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Nary, with the one closest to Nary listed first.
    • Shevlin
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Minerva
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Minerva is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minerva
    • Long Lost Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Long Lost Lake is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lost Lake
      • Estimated population in 2015: 44 people
    • Leonard
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Bagley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Bagley is located in Clearwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bagley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,439 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bagley <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Nary ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nary.

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

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

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

  • Nary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Malvik Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Lawrence Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Aardahl Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Guthrie Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Nymore Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Zion Memorial Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Farris Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Green Lea Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • East Side Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (65 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Nary ...

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 61 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nary.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Nary, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Nary.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Nary:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Nary) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.