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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 Shurtleff (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 Shurtleff. 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.

Shurtleff is located in Saint Lawrence County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Saint Lawrence County: Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson & Lewis.

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

  • Saint Lawrence County     (The home county of Shurtleff)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Shurtleff, with the one closest to Shurtleff listed first.
    • Sevey
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Sevey is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevey
    • Cranberry Lake
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Horseshoe
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Horseshoe is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horseshoe
    • Wanakena
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Newton Falls
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Stark
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Stark is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
    • Star Lake
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Lower Oswegatchie
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Lower Oswegatchie is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Oswegatchie
    • Oswegatchie
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Coffins Mills
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Coffins Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffins Mills
    • Degrasse
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Degrasse is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degrasse
    • South Colton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Clare
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Clare is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clare
  • Essex County
    • Saranac Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Franklin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Shurtleff, with the one closest to Shurtleff listed first.
    • Altamont
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Altamont is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altamont
    • Tupper Lake
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Saranac Inn
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Saranac Inn is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saranac Inn
    • Paul Smiths
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Harrietstown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Harrietstown is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrietstown
    • Saint Regis Falls
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Hamilton County
  • Herkimer County
  • Lewis County
    • Harrisville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Shurtleff ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Shurtleff.

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

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

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

  • Cranberry Lake Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Wanakena Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Huberts Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Beth Joseph Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • St. Alphonsus Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Coulon Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Oswegatchie Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Pleasant View Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Michaels Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Woodland Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (44 more) ...
    • Russell Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Cook Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Pleasant Mound Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Sevey
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sevey is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevey
  • Cranberry Lake
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Childwold
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Gale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Gale is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gale
  • Hollywood
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Hollywood is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollywood
  • Stark
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Stark is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
  • Benson Mines
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Benson Mines is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benson Mines
  • Tupper Lake
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Oswegatchie
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Coffins Mills
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Coffins Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffins Mills
  • Degrasse
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Degrasse is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degrasse
  • South Colton
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Clare
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Clare is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clare
    • Fine
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • South Russell
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • South Russell is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Russell

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

Newspapers Published in Shurtleff ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Shurtleff.

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

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 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 Shurtleff:

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Shurtleff) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Shurtleff, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.