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 Gildford Colony (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 Gildford Colony. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Below are the counties that are near Gildford Colony. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Gildford Colony:
Hill County (The home county of Gildford Colony)
The following are listed by their distance from Gildford Colony, with the one closest to Gildford Colony listed first.
Gildford (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gildford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gildford Colony.
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).
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Spring Coulee Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
St. Johns Catholic Cemetery (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Gildford Hill County Cemetery (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gildford Hill County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Cottonwood Cemetery (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Wenceslaus Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Bethel Cemetery (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunset Garden Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Joplin Cemetery (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Havre Lutheran Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gildford Colony.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gildford Colony, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Gildford Colony.
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 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 Gildford Colony:
The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>
While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>
Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Gildford Colony) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gildford Colony. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.7875, Longitude: -110.2716 In this case, the coordinates for Gildford Colony have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).