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 Brockway (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 Brockway. 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.

Brockway is located in McCone County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McCone County: Dawson, Garfield, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt & Valley.

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

• McCone County     (The home county of Brockway)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Brockway, with the one closest to Brockway listed first.
  • Circle
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Circle have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle
    • Circle is located in McCone County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 598 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Circle <2>
  • Redwater ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwater
    • Redwater is located in McCone County
• Dawson County
  • Lindsay
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsay
    • Lindsay is located in Dawson County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lindsay <2>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Brockway ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brockway.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Brockway. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Brockway and those printed in the larger area surrounding Brockway.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Brockway.

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 helpful 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 Brockway:

• Websites specific to Montana
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Montana Historical Society

• Pages specific to McCone County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Dawson County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of McCone County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana

Cemeteries Near Brockway ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brockway.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

• Brockway Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Brockway Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Brockway.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brockway Cemetery
• Brost Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brost Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brost Cemetery
• Riverview Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
• Biebers Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Biebers Cemetery
• Biebers Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Biebers Cemetery
• Watkins Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Watkins Cemetery
• Haglunds Ritchie Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Haglunds Ritchie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haglunds Ritchie Cemetery
• Arnett Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Arnett Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Arnett Cemetery
• Redwater Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Redwater Cemetery
• Union Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Union Cemetery
• Neudorfer Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Neudorfer Cemetery is located 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> to the west of Jordan.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Neudorfer Cemetery
• Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
• West Church Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Church Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Brockway. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.gov/