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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 Singleshot (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 Singleshot. 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 and 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.

Singleshot is located in Flathead 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 Flathead County: Glacier, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Missoula, Pondera, Powell, Sanders & Teton.

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

  • Flathead County     (The home county of Singleshot)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Singleshot, with the one closest to Singleshot listed first.
    • McCarthyville ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • McCarthyville is located in Flathead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCarthyville
    • Essex
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Bear Creek Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Bear Creek Village is located in Flathead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek Village
    • Martin City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Coram
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • West Glacier
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Hungry Horse
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Bigfork
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Creston
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Glacier County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Singleshot, with the one closest to Singleshot listed first.
    • East Glacier Park Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • East Glacier Park
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Kiowa
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Starr School
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Starr School is located in Glacier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starr School
    • South Browning
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • South Browning is located in Glacier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Browning
    • Browning
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Lake County
  • Pondera County

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

Cemeteries Near Singleshot ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Singleshot.

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 Singleshot - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Baptiste Graye Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • East Glacier Park Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Schildt Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Afterbuffalo Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Bethany Lutheran Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Bigfork Community Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bigfork Community Cemetery
    • The Bigfork Community Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Big Fork Community Cemetery
    • Swan View Memorial Gardens
  • Earring Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Lone Pine Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • St. Anne Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Willow Creek Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Creston Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Creston Cemetery
    • The Creston Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Creston Community Cemetery
    • Union Cemetery

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

Newspapers Published in Singleshot ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Singleshot.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Singleshot, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Singleshot.

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 helpful 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 Singleshot:

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>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- Singleshot) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.