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 Roundup (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 Roundup. 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 hospitals and 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.

Roundup is located in Musselshell County and is the County Seat.

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 Musselshell County: Fergus, Golden Valley, Petroleum, Rosebud, Treasure & Yellowstone.

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

• Musselshell County     (The home county of Roundup)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Roundup, with the one closest to Roundup listed first.
  • Camp Three
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Camp Three have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Three
    • Camp Three is located in Musselshell County
  • Klein
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Klein have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klein
    • Klein is located in Musselshell County
  • Musselshell
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Musselshell
    • Musselshell is located in Musselshell County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Musselshell <2>
• Golden Valley County
  • Lavina
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lavina have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavina
    • Lavina is located in Golden Valley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 168 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lavina <2>
• Yellowstone County
  • Broadview
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadview
    • Broadview is located in Yellowstone County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 182 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Broadview <2>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Roundup ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Roundup.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Roundup. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Roundup and those printed in the larger area surrounding Roundup.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3> of Roundup.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Roundup:

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

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Golden Valley County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Yellowstone 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 Musselshell County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Musselshell County

Cemeteries Near Roundup ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Roundup.

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

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

• Roundup Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Roundup Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roundup Cemetery
• Miracle Lodge #84 Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miracle Lodge #84 Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miracle Lodge #84 Cemetery
• United Mine Workers of America Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the United Mine Workers of America Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the United Mine Workers of America Cemetery
• Lavina Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lavina Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lavina Cemetery
• Musselshell Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Musselshell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Musselshell Cemetery
• Hoskin Basin Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hoskin Basin Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20932 <4>
• Belmont Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Belmont Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Belmont Cemetery
• Flatwillow Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Flatwillow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Flatwillow Cemetery
• Tyler Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tyler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tyler Cemetery
• Broadview Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Broadview Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Broadview.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Broadview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2242360 <4>

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, Roundup had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Roundup had a population of 1,864 people.

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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