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 Sweet Grass (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 Sweet Grass. 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.

Name Variations for Sweet Grass ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Another variation: Sweetgrass.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Sweet Grass is located in Toole 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 Toole County: Glacier, Liberty & Pondera.

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

• Toole County     (The home county of Sweet Grass)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Grass, with the one closest to Sweet Grass listed first.
  • Sunburst
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunburst have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunburst
    • Sunburst is located in Toole County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 328 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunburst <2>
  • Rim Rock Colony
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rim Rock Colony
    • Rim Rock Colony is located in Toole County
  • Kevin
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kevin have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kevin
    • Kevin is located in Toole County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kevin <2>
  • Oilmont
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oilmont
    • Oilmont is located in Toole County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oilmont <2>
• Glacier County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Grass, with the one closest to Sweet Grass listed first.
  • Santa Rita
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rita
    • Santa Rita is located in Glacier County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Santa Rita <2>
  • Cut Bank
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cut Bank
    • Cut Bank is located in Glacier County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,019 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cut Bank <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Sweet Grass ...

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 Sweet Grass.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sweet Grass, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sweet Grass.

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 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 Sweet Grass:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Sweet Grass ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sweet Grass.

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

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

• Sweetgrass Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sweetgrass Cemetery
• Sunburst Cemetery
  (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunburst Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunburst Cemetery
• Rim Rock Colony Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rim Rock Colony Cemetery
• Milk River Cemetery
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Milk River Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2206067 <4>
• Glacier Colony Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glacier Colony Cemetery
• Masinasin Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Masinasin Cemetery is located 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the west of Milk River (AB).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Masinasin Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2447790 <4>
• Zenith Colony Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zenith Colony Cemetery
• Warner Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • The Warner Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Foremost Cemetery
  • Warner Memorial Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Warner Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2339666 <4>
• Prairie Round Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Prairie Round Cemetery is located 18 miles [29 km]<3> to the north of Foremost (AB).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Round Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2154040 <4>
• Gold Butte Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gold Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gold Butte Cemetery
• Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery is located 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the southwest of Warner (AB).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bluegrass Hutterite Colony Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2597601 <4>
• Glendale Colony Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glendale Colony Cemetery
• Crown Hill Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crown Hill Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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