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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 Kinsey (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 Kinsey. 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 and doctors 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.

Kinsey is located in Sainte Genevieve 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 Sainte Genevieve County: Monroe (IL), Randolph (IL), Jefferson, Perry & Saint Francois.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Kinsey ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kinsey.

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

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

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

  • Hoover Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Beckemeyer Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Concord Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Moeller Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Bockenkamp Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Baker Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Porter Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Anne Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Wagoner Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Bequette Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Hall Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Kerlagon Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (320 more) ...
    • Jenning Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Patterson Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • McClain Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Kinsey had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Lawrenceton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Bloomsdale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Danby
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Danby is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danby
  • French Village
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Zell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Plattin
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Plattin is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plattin
  • Flucom
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Oakvale
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Oakvale is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakvale
  • Mill
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Mill is located in Sainte Genevieve County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill
  • Weingarten
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • New Offenburg
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Knorpp
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
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    • Halifax
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Halifax is located in Saint Francois County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halifax
    • Hazel Run
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Hazel Run is located in Saint Francois County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel Run
    • Prairie du Rocher
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Prairie du Rocher is located in Randolph County (IL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie du Rocher
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
      • Prairie du Rocher has also been known as:
      • Prairie du Rocher village
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prairie du Rocher <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Kinsey ...

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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kinsey.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kinsey, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kinsey.

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 Kinsey:

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 Kinsey, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kinsey) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.