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 Valby (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 Valby. 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 hospitals and 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.
Valby is located in Morrow 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 Morrow County: Gilliam, Grant, Umatilla, Wheeler, Benton (WA) & Klickitat (WA).
Below are the counties that are near Valby. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Valby:
- Morrow County (The home county of Valby)
- The following are listed by their distance from Valby, with the one closest to Valby listed first.
- Gooseberry
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gooseberry is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gooseberry
- Eightmile
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Eightmile is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eightmile
- Lexington
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ione
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Hardman
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Hardman is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardman
- Hardman has also been known as:
- Dairyville
- Dogtown
- Raw Dog
- Yaller Dog
- Heppner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Alpine
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Alpine is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
- Pine City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pine City is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine City
- Heck and Gone ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Heck and Gone is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heck and Gone
- Gilliam County
- The following are listed by their distance from Valby, with the one closest to Valby listed first.
- Lonerock
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Lonerock is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonerock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 22 people
- Condon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Clem
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Clem is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clem
- Olex
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Olex is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olex
- Mayville
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Mayville is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayville
- Ajax ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Ajax is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ajax
- Wheeler County
- The following are listed by their distance from Valby, with the one closest to Valby listed first.
- Kinzua ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Kinzua is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinzua
- Winlock
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Winlock is located in Wheeler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winlock
- Fossil
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Valby, see our County-by-County Page for Valby.
Cemeteries Near Valby ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Valby.
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 Valby - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Valby covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Valby, with the one closest to Valby listed first.
- Valby Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Junkins Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Gooseberry Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Hardman IOOF Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lexington Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Brown Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Hardman Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Highview Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Flett Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Heppner Masonic Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heppner Masonic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Heppner Masonic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Heppner.
- The Heppner Masonic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Masonic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39092 <2>
- Petteys Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Rhea Creek Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (23 more) ...
- IOOF Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- King of Peace Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Masonic Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
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 Valby in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Valby.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Valby, with the one closest to Valby listed first.
- Gooseberry
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gooseberry is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gooseberry
- Eightmile
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Eightmile is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eightmile
- Lexington
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hardman
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Hardman is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardman
- Hardman has also been known as:
- Dairyville
- Dogtown
- Raw Dog
- Yaller Dog
- Ione
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Heppner
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Lonerock
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Lonerock is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonerock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 22 people
- Condon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Clem
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Clem is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clem
- Olex
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Olex is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olex
- Igo ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Igo is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igo
- Cecil
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Cecil is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Ella
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Ella is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ella
- Mayville
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Mayville is located in Gilliam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayville
- Galloway ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Galloway is located in Morrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galloway
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Valby. See our List of 1890's Communities around Valby.
Newspapers Published in Valby ...
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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Valby.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Valby, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Valby.
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 Valby:
- Websites specific to Oregon
- Pages specific to Morrow County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Gilliam County
- Wheeler County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Oregon
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 Valby, 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- Valby) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |