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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 Marial (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 Marial. 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.

Marial is located in Curry County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Curry County: Del Norte (CA), Coos, Douglas & Josephine.

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

  • Curry County     (The home county of Marial)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marial, with the one closest to Marial listed first.
    • Agness
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Ophir
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Nesika Beach
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Nesika Beach is located in Curry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nesika Beach
    • Port Orford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Coos County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marial, with the one closest to Marial listed first.
    • Powers
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Bancroft
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Bancroft is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
    • Remote
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Etelka ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Etelka is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etelka
    • Bridge
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Bridge is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridge
    • Broadbent
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Myrtle Point
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Gravelford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Gravelford is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravelford
    • Norway
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Dora
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Dora is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marial, with the one closest to Marial listed first.
    • Glendale
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Camas Valley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Josephine County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Marial, with the one closest to Marial listed first.
    • Galice
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Galice is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galice
    • Leland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Leland is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
    • Wolf Creek
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Hugo
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Hugo is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hugo
    • Sunny Valley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Three Pines
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Three Pines is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Pines
    • Merlin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Golden ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Golden is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
    • Greenback ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Greenback is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenback
    • Placer
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Placer is located in Josephine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placer

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

Cemeteries Near Marial ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Marial.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Marial, with the one closest to Marial 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 Marial in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Marial.

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

  • Bancroft
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Bancroft is located in Coos County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
  • Eckley ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Eckley is located in Curry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eckley
  • Remote
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Etelka ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Etelka is located in Coos County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etelka
  • Leland
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Leland is located in Josephine County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
  • Glendale
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Camas Valley
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Wolf Creek
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Ophir
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Merlin
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Myrtle Point
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Gravelford
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Gravelford is located in Coos County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravelford
  • Norway
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Olalla
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Olalla is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olalla

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

Newspapers Published in Marial ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Marial.

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

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 either 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 Marial:

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 Marial, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Marial) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.