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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 Lothair (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 Lothair. 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.

Lothair is located in Liberty 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 Liberty County: Chouteau, Hill, Pondera & Toole.

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

  • Liberty County     (The home county of Lothair)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lothair, with the one closest to Lothair listed first.
    • Chester
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • 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>
    • Joplin
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • 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>
    • Whitlash
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Hill County
    • Inverness
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inverness have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inverness
      • Inverness is located in Hill County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Inverness <2>
  • Pondera County
  • Toole County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lothair, with the one closest to Lothair listed first.
    • Galata
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Shelby
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Lothair ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lothair.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lothair, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lothair.

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 Lothair:

Cemeteries Near Lothair ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lothair.

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

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

  • Lothair Catholic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Lothair Protestant Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Galata Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Galata Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galata Cemetery
  • Devon Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Chester Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • 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
  • St. Olaf Lutheran Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Eagle Creek Colony Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Erickson Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Omholt Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Omholt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Omholt Cemetery
  • Grandview Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Camrose Colony Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Golden West Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Riverview Colony Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Joplin Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • 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

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lothair) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lothair. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.4717, Longitude: -111.2322       In this case, the coordinates for Lothair have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.




 

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