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 Romsett Summer Home Area (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 Romsett Summer Home Area. 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 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.

Romsett Summer Home Area is located in Gallatin 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 Gallatin County: Fremont (ID), Broadwater, Jefferson, Madison, Meagher, Park, Park (WY) & Teton (WY).

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

• Gallatin County     (The home county of Romsett Summer Home Area)
  • West Yellowstone
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Yellowstone have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Yellowstone
    • West Yellowstone is located in Gallatin County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,372 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for West Yellowstone <2>
• Beaverhead County
  • Lakeview
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
    • Lakeview is located in Beaverhead County
• Fremont County (ID)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Romsett Summer Home Area, with the one closest to Romsett Summer Home Area listed first.
  • Island Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island Park have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Park
    • Island Park is located in Fremont County (ID)
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Island Park <2>
  • Macks Inn
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macks Inn
    • Macks Inn is located in Fremont County (ID)
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Macks Inn <2>
  • Box Canyon
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon
    • Box Canyon is located in Fremont County (ID)
• Park County (WY)
  • Mammoth
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mammoth
    • Mammoth is located in Park County (WY)

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

Newspapers Published in Romsett Summer Home Area ...

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 Romsett Summer Home Area.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Romsett Summer Home Area, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Romsett Summer Home Area.

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 Romsett Summer Home Area:

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

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Beaverhead County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Fremont County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Park 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 Gallatin County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana

Cemeteries Near Romsett Summer Home Area ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Romsett Summer Home Area.

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 Romsett Summer Home Area covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Romsett Summer Home Area, with the one closest to Romsett Summer Home Area listed first.

• Fir Ridge Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fir Ridge Cemetery
• Targhee Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Targhee Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Targhee Cemetery
• Mattie Culver Gravesite
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mattie Culver Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2268019 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Gallatin County: www.co.gallatin.mt.us/

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