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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 Schley (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 Schley. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Schley is located in Missoula County.

To see how the shape of Montana's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Missoula County: Clearwater (ID), Idaho (ID), Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Powell, Ravalli & Sanders.

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

  • Missoula County     (The home county of Schley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Schley, with the one closest to Schley listed first.
    • Evaro
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Evaro is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evaro
    • Wye
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Frenchtown
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Grass Valley
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Grass Valley is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Valley
    • De Smet
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • De Smet is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Smet
    • Huson
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Travois Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Travois Village is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Travois Village
    • East Missoula
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • East Missoula is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Missoula
    • Missoula
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Orchard Homes
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Orchard Homes is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchard Homes
    • Milltown
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Bonner
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Schley, with the one closest to Schley listed first.
    • Arlee
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Ravalli
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Saint Ignatius
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Moiese
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Charlo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Kicking Horse
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Kicking Horse is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kicking Horse
    • Ronan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Mineral County
    • Alberton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Sanders County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Schley, with the one closest to Schley listed first.
    • Agency
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Agency is located in Sanders County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agency
    • Dixon
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Old Agency
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Old Agency is located in Sanders County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Agency

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

Cemeteries Near Schley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Schley.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Schley - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Schley covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Jocko Valley Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Frenchtown Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant View Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Missoula Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • St. Ignatius Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • St. Ignatius Old Catholic Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • St. Mary Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • St. Mary Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Post Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Dixon Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodman Pioneer Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...

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.<3>

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from Schley, with the one closest to Schley listed first.

  • Arlee
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Evaro
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Evaro is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evaro
  • Frenchtown
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Grass Valley
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Grass Valley is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Valley
  • De Smet
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • De Smet is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Smet
  • Huson
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Ravalli
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Saint Ignatius
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Missoula
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Ninemile
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Ninemile is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ninemile
  • Bonner
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Lothrop
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lothrop is located in Missoula County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lothrop
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Stark
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Stark is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
    • Lolo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Potomac
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Potomac is located in Missoula County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potomac

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

Newspapers Published in Schley ...

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 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Schley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Schley, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Schley.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Schley:

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>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.
<3>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Schley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Schley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.