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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 Winner (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 Winner. 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.

Winner is located in Tripp County and is the County Seat.

To see how the shape of South 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 Tripp County: Keya Paha (NE), Gregory, Lyman, Mellette & Todd.

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

  • Tripp County     (The home county of Winner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winner, with the one closest to Winner listed first.
    • Jordan Junction
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Jordan Junction is located in Tripp County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan Junction
    • Colome
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Witten
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Ideal
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • New Witten
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • New Witten is located in Tripp County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Witten
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people
    • Clearfield
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Clearfield is located in Tripp County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearfield
    • Hamill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Carter
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Millboro
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Millboro is located in Tripp County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millboro
      • Estimated population in 2014: 34 people
    • Keyapaha
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Keyapaha is located in Tripp County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyapaha
      • Estimated population in 2014: 21 people
    • Wewela
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Gregory County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winner, with the one closest to Winner listed first.
    • Dixon
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Dixon is located in Gregory County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon
      • Estimated population in 2014: 118 people
    • Dallas
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Gregory
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Lyman County
    • Iona
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Mellette County
    • Mosher
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Mosher is located in Mellette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosher
      • Estimated population in 2014: 25 people
  • Todd County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Winner, with the one closest to Winner listed first.
    • Okreek
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Hidden Timber
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Hidden Timber is located in Todd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Timber
      • Estimated population in 2014: 45 people

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

Cemeteries Near Winner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Winner.

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

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

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

  • Winner City South Catholic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Winner City Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Saint Isidore Catholic Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Colome Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colome Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Colome Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Colome.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2158843 <2>
  • Ideal Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • St. John the Baptist Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Our Savior Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Congregational Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Jerusalem Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Dallas Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillview Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Dixon Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Advent Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Gibson Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • ZCBJ Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Winner ...

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 Winner.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Winner. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Winner and those printed in the larger area surrounding Winner.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 23 miles [37 km]<3> of Winner.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Winner:

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Winner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.