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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 Grace City (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 Grace City. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Grace City is located in Foster 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 Foster County: Eddy, Griggs, Stutsman & Wells.

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

  • Foster County     (The home county of Grace City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grace City, with the one closest to Grace City listed first.
    • McHenry
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Glenfield
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Barlow
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Barlow is located in Foster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barlow
    • Guptill
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Guptill is located in Foster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guptill
    • Carrington
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Melville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Melville is located in Foster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melville
  • Barnes County
    • Wimbledon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Benson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grace City, with the one closest to Grace City listed first.
    • Warwick
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Tokio
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Fort Totten
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Saint Michael
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Eddy County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grace City, with the one closest to Grace City listed first.
    • Brantford
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Brantford is located in Eddy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantford
    • New Rockford
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Hamar
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Hamar is located in Eddy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamar
    • Sheyenne
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Griggs County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grace City, with the one closest to Grace City listed first.
    • Sutton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Binford
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Jessie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Nelson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grace City, with the one closest to Grace City listed first.
    • Tolna
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Pekin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Stutsman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grace City, with the one closest to Grace City listed first.
    • Kensal
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Courtenay
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Pingree
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Wells County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Grace City, with the one closest to Grace City listed first.
    • Cathay
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Sykeston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Bremen
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Grace City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grace City.

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 Grace City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Grace City Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Brantford Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Brethren Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Glenfield Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Barlow Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Carrington Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Naroen Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Kensal Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kensal Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kensal Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Kensal.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2181531 <3>
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Eastman Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Morningside Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (30 more) ...
    • German Free Church Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Prairie Home Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Longview Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Glenfield
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Barlow
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Barlow is located in Foster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barlow
  • Carrington
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • New Rockford
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Melville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Melville is located in Foster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melville
  • Sheyenne
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Jessie
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Pingree
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Sykeston
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Grace City ...

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 48 newspapers that have been published in the area around Grace City.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Grace City. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Grace City and those printed in the larger area surrounding Grace City.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Grace City.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Grace City:

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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Grace City) 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.
<4>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 Grace City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.