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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 Kuroki (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 Kuroki. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Kuroki is located in Bottineau 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 Bottineau County: McHenry, Pierce & Rolette.

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

  • Bottineau County     (The home county of Kuroki)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kuroki, with the one closest to Kuroki listed first.
    • Westhope
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Antler
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Landa
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Landa is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 38 people
    • Maxbass
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Roth
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Roth is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roth
    • Newburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Souris
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Russell
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Russell is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
    • Lansford
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Kramer
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • White ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • White is located in Bottineau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
  • McHenry County
    • Upham
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Renville County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kuroki, with the one closest to Kuroki listed first.
    • Loraine
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Loraine is located in Renville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loraine
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8 people
    • Mohall
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Sherwood
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Glenburn
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Grano
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Grano is located in Renville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grano
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6 people

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

Cemeteries Near Kuroki ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kuroki.

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

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

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

  • Lyleton Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • The Week Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Westhope Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Antler Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Copley Anglican Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Landa Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Coultervale Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Haas Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Maxbass Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Renville Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Nedaros Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Pierson Memorial Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (24 more) ...
    • Brotherhood Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Dovre Lutheran Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Eden Valley Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 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 Kuroki. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kuroki.

Newspapers Published in Kuroki ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kuroki.

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

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 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 Kuroki:

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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Kuroki) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.