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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 Anamoose (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 Anamoose. 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 doctors 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.

Anamoose is located in McHenry County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of McHenry County: Bottineau, McLean, Pierce, Renville, Sheridan & Ward.

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

  • McHenry County     (The home county of Anamoose)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Anamoose, with the one closest to Anamoose listed first.
    • Drake
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Funston
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Funston is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
    • Guthrie
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Guthrie is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guthrie
    • Kief
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Balfour
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Karlsruhe
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Bergen
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Bergen is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bergen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7 people
    • Kongsberg
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Kongsberg is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kongsberg
    • Voltaire
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Benson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Anamoose, with the one closest to Anamoose listed first.
    • Esmond
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Isabel
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • McLean County
    • Butte
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Butte is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butte
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
  • Pierce County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Anamoose, with the one closest to Anamoose listed first.
    • Orrin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Selz
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Selz is located in Pierce County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selz
    • Balta
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Sheridan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Anamoose, with the one closest to Anamoose listed first.
    • Martin
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Denhoff
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Goodrich
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • McClusky
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Wells County
    • Harvey
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Anamoose ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Anamoose.

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

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

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

  • St. Francis Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • St. Martins Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Sons of Herman Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Martin Baptist Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Martin United Methodist Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin United Methodist Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Martin United Methodist Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the north of Martin.
    • The Martin United Methodist Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Martin Evangelical United Brethern Cemetery
    • Martin Methodist Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2402014 <3>
  • Zion Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Ebenezer Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Reform Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Rosenfeld Baptist Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Rosenfield Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Berlin Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (55 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Anamoose ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Anamoose.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Anamoose:

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>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- Anamoose) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.