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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 Raub (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 Raub. 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.

Raub is located in McLean 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 McLean County: Burleigh, Dunn, McHenry, Mercer, Mountrail, Oliver, Sheridan & Ward.

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

  • McLean County     (The home county of Raub)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Raub, with the one closest to Raub listed first.
    • Lucky Mound ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Lucky Mound is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucky Mound
    • Roseglen
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • White Shield
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • White Shield is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Shield
    • Elbowoods ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Elbowoods is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbowoods
    • Charging Eagle ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Charging Eagle is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charging Eagle
    • Shell Creek ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Shell Creek is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Creek
    • Nishu ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Nishu is located in McLean County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nishu
    • Garrison
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Dunn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Raub, with the one closest to Raub listed first.
    • Independance ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Independance is located in Dunn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independance
    • Twin Buttes
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Twin Buttes is located in Dunn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Buttes
    • Halliday
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • McKenzie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Raub, with the one closest to Raub listed first.
    • Four Bears Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Four Bears Village is located in McKenzie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Bears Village
    • Mandaree
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Mercer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Raub, with the one closest to Raub listed first.
    • Red Butte ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Red Butte is located in Mercer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Butte
    • Beaver Creek ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Beaver Creek is located in Mercer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Creek
  • Mountrail County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Raub, with the one closest to Raub listed first.
    • Parshall
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Plaza
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Plaza is located in Mountrail County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plaza
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plaza <1>
    • Van Hook
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Van Hook is located in Mountrail County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Hook
    • New Town
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Sanish
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Sanish is located in Mountrail County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanish
  • Ward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Raub, with the one closest to Raub listed first.
    • Makoti
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Ryder
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Douglas
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Raub ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Raub.

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

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

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

  • Queen of Peace Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Roseglen Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Indian Scout Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Scout Cemetery
    • The Indian Scout Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Congregational Cemetery
  • Parshall Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Roseglen Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Hiddenwood Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Crowsheart Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Medicine Stone Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • St. Bridget's Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Lutheran Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • First Lutheran Wabek Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (44 more) ...
    • Holen Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Red Butte Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • St. Andrews Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Raub ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Raub.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Raub, 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 Raub.

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 Raub:

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