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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 Rhame (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 Rhame. 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 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.

Rhame is located in Bowman 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 Bowman County: Fallon (MT), Adams, Slope & Harding (SD).

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

  • Bowman County     (The home county of Rhame)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rhame, with the one closest to Rhame listed first.
    • Bowman
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Bowman is located in Bowman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,578 people
      • Former names for Bowman:
      • Eden
      • Lowden
      • Twin Buttes
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bowman <1>
    • Scranton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Gascoyne
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Gascoyne is located in Bowman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gascoyne
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 14 people
  • Slope County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rhame, with the one closest to Rhame listed first.
    • Marmarth
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Amidon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Fallon County (MT)
    • Baker
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Baker is located in Fallon County (MT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,897 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baker <1>
  • Harding County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rhame, with the one closest to Rhame listed first.
    • Ladner
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Ladner is located in Harding County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ladner
    • Ludlow
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Rhame ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rhame.

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

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

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

  • Tuttle Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Mound Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mound Cemetery is located 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the west of Amidon.
    • The Mound Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Crawford Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2237558 <2>
  • Bowman Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • St. Charles Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Grand River Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Lebanon Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Fertile Prairie Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Scranton Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Norman Lutheran Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Ladner Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ladner Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ladner Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the west of Ladner (SD).
      • The Ladner Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Ladner Lutheran Church Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #97179 <2>
    • Pierce Congregational Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierce Congregational Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pierce Congregational Cemetery is located 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> to the southeast of Amidon.
      • The Pierce Congregational Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Pierce Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #102288 <2>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Rhame ...

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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rhame.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

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

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 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 Rhame:

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