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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 Gentryville (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 Gentryville. 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 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.

Gentryville is located in Gentry County.

To see how the shape of Missouri's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gentry County: Andrew, Daviess, DeKalb, Harrison, Nodaway & Worth.

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

  • Gentry County     (The home county of Gentryville)
  • Andrew County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gentryville, with the one closest to Gentryville listed first.
    • Helena
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Helena is located in Andrew County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
    • Rea
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Rochester ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Cosby
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cosby is located in Andrew County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cosby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
    • Bolckow
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Wyeth ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Rosendale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Avenue City ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Avenue City is located in Andrew County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenue City
    • Savannah
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Caldwell County
  • Clinton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gentryville, with the one closest to Gentryville listed first.
    • Cameron
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Keystone ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Keystone is located in Clinton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
  • Daviess County
  • DeKalb County
  • Harrison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gentryville, with the one closest to Gentryville listed first.
    • New Hampton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Martinsville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Martinsville is located in Harrison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinsville
    • Bethany
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Gardner
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Gilman City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Ridgeway
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Hatfield
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Hatfield is located in Harrison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatfield
    • Eagleville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Nodaway County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gentryville, with the one closest to Gentryville listed first.
    • Clyde
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Clyde is located in Nodaway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 78 people
    • Conception
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Conception Junction
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Conception Junction is located in Nodaway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conception Junction
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
    • Guilford
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Ravenwood
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Parnell
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Barnard
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Arkoe
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Orrsburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Gaynor
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Worth County

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

Cemeteries Near Gentryville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gentryville.

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

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

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

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Gentryville had a population of 223 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Whitten
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Whitten is located in Gentry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitten
  • Evona
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Evona is located in Gentry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evona
  • Berlin
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Berlin is located in Gentry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin
  • Darlington
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Darlington is located in Gentry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darlington
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
  • McFall
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • McCurry
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • McCurry is located in Gentry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCurry
  • Albany
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Winslow
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Fairport
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Matkins
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Matkins is located in Harrison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matkins
  • King City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Voyage ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Voyage is located in Gentry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voyage
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Gentryville ...

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 174 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gentryville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gentryville, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Gentryville.

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 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 Gentryville:

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 'straight-line' (or 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- Gentryville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Gentryville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.