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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 Opheim (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 Opheim. 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 and doctors 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.

Opheim 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 Opheim. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Opheim:

  • Valley County     (The home county of Opheim)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Opheim, with the one closest to Opheim listed first.
    • Glentana
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Roanwood
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roanwood
      • Roanwood is located in Valley County
    • Richland
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Larslan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Daniels County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Opheim ...

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 Opheim.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Opheim. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Opheim and those printed in the larger area surrounding Opheim.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<2> of Opheim.

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 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 Opheim:

Cemeteries Near Opheim ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Opheim.

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

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

  • Lawndale Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lawndale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lawndale Cemetery
  • Glentana Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Roanwood Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Roanwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roanwood Cemetery
  • Larslan Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Larslan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larslan Cemetery
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • The Hillcrest Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hill Crest Cemetery
    • Theony Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillcrest Cemetery

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

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

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

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Opheim) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Opheim. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.8569, Longitude: -106.4083       In this case, the coordinates for Opheim have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<3>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.









 

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