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 Rattlesnake (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 Rattlesnake. 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.

Rattlesnake is located in Blaine 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 Blaine County: Chouteau, Fergus, Hill & Phillips.

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

• Blaine County     (The home county of Rattlesnake)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Rattlesnake, with the one closest to Rattlesnake listed first.
  • Hays
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hays
    • Hays is located in Blaine County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hays <1>
  • Pine Grove
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
    • Pine Grove is located in Blaine County
  • Lloyd
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloyd
    • Lloyd is located in Blaine County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lloyd <1>
  • Lodge Pole
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodge Pole have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
    • Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County
  • Fort Belknap Agency
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Belknap Agency have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Belknap Agency
    • Fort Belknap Agency is located in Blaine County
• Phillips County
  • Zortman
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zortman
    • Zortman is located in Phillips County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Zortman <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Rattlesnake ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rattlesnake.

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

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 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 Rattlesnake:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Rattlesnake ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rattlesnake.

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

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

• Cleveland Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cleveland Cemetery
• McConnell Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McConnell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McConnell Cemetery
• Hays Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hays Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hays Cemetery
• St. Pauls Mission Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Pauls Mission Cemetery
• Hungry Hollow Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hungry Hollow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hungry Hollow Cemetery
• Alice Nash Memorial Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alice Nash Memorial Cemetery
• Landusky Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Landusky Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Landusky Cemetery
• Pike Landusky Gravesite
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pike Landusky Gravesite
• Zortman Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zortman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zortman Cemetery
• Chopwoid Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chopwoid Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chopwoid Cemetery
• Big Warm Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Big Warm Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Big Warm Cemetery
• Kirkaldie Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kirkaldie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirkaldie Cemetery
• Continue List   (4 more) ...
  • Messerly Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Messerly Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Messerly Cemetery
  • Agency Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Agency Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Agency Cemetery

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.<4>

While we didn't find Rattlesnake in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rattlesnake.

• Warrick
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warrick have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrick
  • Warrick is located in Chouteau County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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