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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 Tatley Meadows (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 Tatley Meadows. 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.

Name Variations for Tatley Meadows ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Tatley Meadows: Tatley Mdws.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 hospitals 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.

Tatley Meadows is located in Burleigh 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 Burleigh County: Emmons, Kidder, McLean, Morton, Oliver & Sheridan.

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

  • Burleigh County     (The home county of Tatley Meadows)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tatley Meadows, with the one closest to Tatley Meadows listed first.
    • Bismarck
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Lincoln
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Apple Valley
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Apple Valley is located in Burleigh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Valley
    • Menoken
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Double Ditch Indian Village
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • McKenzie
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Moffit
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Sterling
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Regan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Emmons County
    • Livona
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Livona is located in Emmons County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livona
  • McLean County
    • Wilton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Morton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tatley Meadows, with the one closest to Tatley Meadows listed first.
    • On-a-Slant Village ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • On-a-Slant Village is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for On-a-Slant Village
    • Twin City Estates
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Twin City Estates is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin City Estates
    • Mandan
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Huff
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Huff is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huff
    • Saint Anthony
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Lyons
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Sweet Briar
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Sweet Briar is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Briar
    • Fort Rice
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Rice is located in Morton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Rice
    • New Salem
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Flasher
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Oliver County
    • Sanger
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Sanger is located in Oliver County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanger
  • Sioux County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tatley Meadows, with the one closest to Tatley Meadows listed first.
    • Solen
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Cannon Ball
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Tatley Meadows ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tatley Meadows.

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 Tatley Meadows - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ft. Lincoln Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Ft. Lincoln Military Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • North Dakota Veterans Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Annunciation Monastery Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Sunset Memorial Garden
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Union Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • St. John's Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Stewartsdale and Westminister Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Heart River Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • St. Anthony Catholic Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (38 more) ...
    • Harmon Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Swedish Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Park Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Bismarck
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Mandan
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Menoken
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Sweet Briar
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Sweet Briar is located in Morton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Briar
  • Wogansport
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Wogansport is located in Burleigh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wogansport
  • McKenzie
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Fort Rice
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Fort Rice is located in Morton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Rice
  • Livona
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Livona is located in Emmons County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livona
  • Judson
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Judson is located in Morton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Judson
  • Sterling
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Sanger
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Sanger is located in Oliver County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanger
  • New Salem
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Tatley Meadows. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tatley Meadows.

Newspapers Published in Tatley Meadows ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tatley Meadows.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tatley Meadows, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tatley Meadows.

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 Tatley Meadows:

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>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 Tatley Meadows, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Tatley Meadows) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.