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 Lame Deer (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 Lame Deer. 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 doctors and 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.
Lame Deer is located in Rosebud 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 Rosebud County: Big Horn, Custer, Garfield, Musselshell, Petroleum, Powder River, Treasure & Yellowstone.
Below are the counties that are near Lame Deer. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lame Deer:
- Rosebud County (The home county of Lame Deer)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lame Deer, with the one closest to Lame Deer listed first.
- Colstrip
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Ashland
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Birney
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Big Horn County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lame Deer, with the one closest to Lame Deer listed first.
- Muddy
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Muddy have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy
- Muddy is located in Big Horn County
- Busby
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lame Deer, see our County-by-County Page for Lame Deer.
Cemeteries Near Lame Deer ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lame Deer.
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 Lame Deer covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lame Deer, with the one closest to Lame Deer listed first.
- Lame Deer Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Muddy Creek Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Muddy Creek Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Muddy Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21015 <3>
- Lee Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lee Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lee Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- White River Busby Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Two Moon Gravesite
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Brown Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Ashland Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Colstrip Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Colstrip Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Colstrip Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Bean Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Birney Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Birney Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Birney Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Willow Crossing Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Crossing Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Willow Crossing Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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.<5>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Lame Deer had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lame Deer, with the one closest to Lame Deer listed first.
- Ashland
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Lee ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lee have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
- Lee is located in Rosebud County
- Birney
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Brandenberg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brandenberg have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandenberg
- Brandenberg is located in Rosebud County
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lame Deer. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lame Deer.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lame Deer ...
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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lame Deer.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lame Deer. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lame Deer and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lame Deer.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<6> of Lame Deer.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Lame Deer:
- Websites specific to Montana
- Pages specific to Rosebud County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
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 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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <5> | 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 Lame Deer, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <6> | 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- Lame Deer) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lame Deer. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.6234, Longitude: -106.6665 |