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 Glentana (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 Glentana. 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 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.

Glentana is located in Valley 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 Valley County: Daniels, Garfield, McCone, Phillips & Roosevelt.

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

• Valley County     (The home county of Glentana)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Glentana, with the one closest to Glentana listed first.
  • Opheim
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Opheim have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opheim
    • Opheim is located in Valley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opheim <2>
  • Richland
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland
    • Richland is located in Valley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Richland <2>
  • Roanwood
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roanwood
    • Roanwood is located in Valley County
  • Larslan
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larslan
    • Larslan is located in Valley County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Larslan <2>
• Daniels County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Glentana, with the one closest to Glentana listed first.
  • Peerless
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peerless
    • Peerless is located in Daniels County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Peerless <2>
  • Four Buttes
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Buttes
    • Four Buttes is located in Daniels County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Glentana ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Glentana.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Glentana. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Glentana and those printed in the larger area surrounding Glentana.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> of Glentana.

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 Glentana:

• 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 Valley County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Daniels 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 Valley County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana

Cemeteries Near Glentana ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glentana.

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 Glentana covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Glentana Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glentana Cemetery
• Lawndale Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lawndale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lawndale Cemetery
• Roanwood Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Roanwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roanwood Cemetery
• Larslan Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Larslan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larslan Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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