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 Inverness (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 Inverness. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Inverness is located in Hill 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 Hill County: Blaine, Chouteau & Liberty.

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

• Hill County     (The home county of Inverness)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Inverness, with the one closest to Inverness listed first.
  • Rudyard
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rudyard have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudyard
    • Rudyard is located in Hill County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rudyard <2>
  • Hingham
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hingham have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hingham
    • Hingham is located in Hill County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 118 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hingham <2>
  • Gildford
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gildford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gildford
    • Gildford is located in Hill County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gildford <2>
  • Kremlin
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kremlin have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kremlin
    • Kremlin is located in Hill County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kremlin <2>
• Liberty County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Inverness, with the one closest to Inverness listed first.
  • Joplin
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Joplin have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joplin
    • Joplin is located in Liberty County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Joplin <2>
  • Chester
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chester have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
    • Chester is located in Liberty County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 870 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chester <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Inverness ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Inverness.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Inverness, 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 Inverness.

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 Inverness:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Inverness ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Inverness.

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

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

• Joplin Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Joplin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Joplin Cemetery
• Rudyard Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rudyard Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rudyard Cemetery
• Bethel Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
• Chester Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chester Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chester Cemetery
• Gildford Hill County Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • 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.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gildford Hill County Cemetery
• Erickson Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erickson Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20862 <4>
• St. Wenceslaus Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • 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.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Wenceslaus Cemetery
• Eagle Creek Colony Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eagle Creek Colony Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2321106 <4>
• Lothair Catholic Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • The Lothair Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Hemmer Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lothair Catholic Cemetery
• Lothair Protestant Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lothair Protestant Cemetery
• Kenilworth Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kenilworth Cemetery is located 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> to the east of Big Sandy.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kenilworth Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20946 <4>
• Trinity Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trinity Cemetery
• Continue List   (4 more) ...
  • Sage Creek Colony Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sage Creek Colony Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Hill County: www.co.hill.mt.us/

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