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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 Macy (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 Macy. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Macy is located in Thurston County.

To see how the shape of Nebraska's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Thurston County: Monona (IA), Woodbury (IA), Burt, Cuming, Dakota, Dixon & Wayne.

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

  • Thurston County     (The home county of Macy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macy, with the one closest to Macy listed first.
    • Walthill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Rosalie
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Winnebago
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Pender
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Thurston
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Burt County
  • Cuming County
  • Dakota County
  • Dixon County
  • Dodge County
    • Uehling
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Washington County
    • Admah ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Admah is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Admah
  • Harrison County (IA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macy, with the one closest to Macy listed first.
    • Little Sioux
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Orson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Pisgah
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Pisgah is located in Harrison County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pisgah
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pisgah <1>
  • Monona County (IA)
  • Woodbury County (IA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macy, with the one closest to Macy listed first.
    • Sloan
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Salix
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Salix is located in Woodbury County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salix
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 364 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Salix <1>
    • Hornick
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hornick is located in Woodbury County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hornick
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 210 people
    • Sergeant Bluff
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Bronson
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Glen Ellen
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Climbing Hill
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Smithland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Regency of Sioux City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Regency of Sioux City is located in Woodbury County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regency of Sioux City
    • Lawton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Lawton is located in Woodbury County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
    • Sioux City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Oto
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Oto is located in Woodbury County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oto
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 101 people
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Oto
      • From Macy to Oto
    • Holiday Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Holiday Village is located in Woodbury County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Village
  • Union County (SD)

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

Cemeteries Near Macy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Macy.

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

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

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

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 Macy in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Macy.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Macy ...

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 104 newspapers that have been published in the area around Macy.

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

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 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 Macy:

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 Macy, 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' (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- Macy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.