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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 Lake Saint Louis (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 Lake Saint Louis. 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.

Name Variations for Lake Saint Louis ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Lake Saint Louis: Lk. St. Louis

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Lake Saint Louis is located in Saint Charles 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 Saint Charles County: Calhoun (IL), Jersey (IL), Madison (IL), Franklin, Lincoln, Saint Louis & Warren.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Lake Saint Louis ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lake Saint Louis.

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 Lake Saint Louis - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Hopewell MB Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Dardenne Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Sage Chapel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Sisters of the Most Precious Blood Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Assumption Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Patrick Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Linn Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Journey Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Francis Howell Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Pitman Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Thomas Howell Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
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    • Friedens Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Friedens Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • St. Pauls Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)

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>

While we didn't find Lake Saint Louis in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lake Saint Louis.

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

  • Dardenne
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Dardenne is located in Saint Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dardenne
  • Josephville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Josephville is located in Saint Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Josephville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
  • O'Fallon
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Saint Paul
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Paul is located in Saint Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Paul
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,796 people
  • Wentzville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Mechanicsville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Mechanicsville is located in Saint Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsville
  • Enon
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Enon is located in Saint Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enon
  • New Melle
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Cottleville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Hamburg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Hamburg is located in Saint Charles County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamburg
  • Weldon Spring
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Saint Peters
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
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    • Chain-of-Rocks
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Foristell
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Cappeln
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Cappeln is located in Saint Charles County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cappeln

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lake Saint Louis ...

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 70 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lake Saint Louis.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lake Saint Louis. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lake Saint Louis and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lake Saint Louis.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> of Lake Saint Louis.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Lake Saint Louis:

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