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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 Rosy (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 Rosy. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Rosy 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 Rosy. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rosy:

  • Itasca County     (The home county of Rosy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rosy, with the one closest to Rosy listed first.
    • Squaw Lake
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Max
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Dora Lake
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Dora Lake is located in Itasca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora Lake
    • Wirt
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Wirt is located in Itasca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wirt
    • Spring Lake
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Bowstring
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Bowstring is located in Itasca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowstring
    • Talmoon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Marcell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Bigfork
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Beltrami County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rosy, with the one closest to Rosy listed first.
    • Funkley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Funkley is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funkley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
    • Blackduck
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Pennington
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Langor
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Langor is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langor
    • Hines
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Shooks
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Shooks is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shooks
    • Tenstrike
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Kelliher
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Turtle River
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Turtle River is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turtle River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Quiring
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Quiring is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quiring
    • Lavinia
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Lavinia is located in Beltrami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavinia
    • Nebish
      (26 miles [41.8 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 Rosy, with the one closest to Rosy listed first.
    • Ryan Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Ryan Village is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan Village
    • Bena
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Cass Lake
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Federal Dam
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Koochiching County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rosy, with the one closest to Rosy listed first.
    • Northome
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Mizpah
      (18 miles [29 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
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Gemmell is located in Koochiching County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gemmell

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

Cemeteries Near Rosy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rosy.

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

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

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

  • Rosy Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Moose Park Twp. Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • South Round Lake Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • North Round Lake Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Peter & Eva Niska Memorial Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Squaw Lake Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Bergville Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Summit Twp. Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Popple Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Oakum Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (52 more) ...
    • Grattan Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Forest Hill Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Sugar Bush Twp. Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Rosy ...

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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rosy.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rosy, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rosy.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Rosy:

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