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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 Salol (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 Salol. 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 and 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.

Salol is located in Roseau 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 Roseau County: Beltrami, Kittson, Lake of the Woods & Marshall.

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

  • Roseau County     (The home county of Salol)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Salol, with the one closest to Salol listed first.
    • Roseau
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Warroad
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Swift
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Swift is located in Roseau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swift
    • Fox
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Fox is located in Roseau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox
    • Wannaska
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Badger
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Roosevelt
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Greenbush
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lake of the Woods County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Salol, with the one closest to Salol listed first.
    • Long Point
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Long Point is located in Lake of the Woods County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Point
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 40 people
    • Williams
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Williams is located in Lake of the Woods County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Williams <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Salol ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Salol.

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

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

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

  • Spruce Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Salol Mission Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Malung Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Spruce Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Hope Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Falun Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • St. Phillips Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • America Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Beaver Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (42 more) ...
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Rose Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Salol ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Salol.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Salol, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Salol.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Salol:

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Salol) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.