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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 Little Berger (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 Little Berger. 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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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.

Little Berger is located in Gasconade 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 Gasconade County: Callaway, Crawford, Franklin, Maries, Montgomery, Osage & Warren.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Little Berger ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Berger.

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 Little Berger - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Little Berger Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Ruediger Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Grebe Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Koeller Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Stoecklin Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Denuser Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Dahl Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Tinermeyer Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Methodist Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Roth Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Bade Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
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    • Betts Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bretthorst Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Huffman Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)

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 in 1895, Little Berger had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Senate Grove ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Senate Grove is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Senate Grove
  • Berger
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Swiss
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Swiss is located in Gasconade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swiss
  • Stony Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Stony Hill is located in Gasconade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Hill
  • Hermann
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Etlah
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Bridgeport
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Bridgeport is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
  • Beemont
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • New Haven
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Kruegerville ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Kruegerville is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kruegerville
  • Pinckney
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Pinckney is located in Warren County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinckney
  • Rhineland
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
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    • Gasconade
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Gasconade is located in Gasconade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gasconade
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
    • Kiel
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Stolpe
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Stolpe is located in Gasconade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stolpe

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

Newspapers Published in Little Berger ...

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 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Berger.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Little Berger, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Little Berger.

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 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 Little Berger:

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>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 Little Berger, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Little Berger) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.