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 Lakeside (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 Lakeside. 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 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.

Lakeside is located in Box Elder County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Box Elder County: Cassia (ID), Oneida (ID), Elko (NV), Cache, Tooele & Weber.

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

• Box Elder County     (The home county of Lakeside)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Lakeside, with the one closest to Lakeside listed first.
  • Hogup
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hogup. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogup
    • Hogup is located in Box Elder County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Hogup
    • From Lakeside to Hogup
  • Saline
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Saline. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saline
    • Saline is located in Box Elder County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Saline
    • From Lakeside to Saline
  • Promontory Point ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Promontory Point. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Promontory Point
    • Promontory Point is located in Box Elder County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Promontory Point
    • From Lakeside to Promontory Point
  • Rozel ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rozel. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rozel
    • Rozel is located in Box Elder County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Rozel
    • From Lakeside to Rozel
  • Boston Terrace ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Boston Terrace. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston Terrace
    • Boston Terrace is located in Box Elder County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Boston Terrace
    • From Lakeside to Boston Terrace
• Tooele County
  • Low ‑ Historic
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Low. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Low
    • Low is located in Tooele County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Low
    • From Lakeside to Low

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

Cemeteries Near Lakeside ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Lakeside.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our collection of Genealogy Websites.

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.<2>

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

• Rozel ‑ Historic
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rozel. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rozel
  • Rozel is located in Box Elder County
  • Google driving directions:
  • From your current location to Rozel
  • From Lakeside to Rozel

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Lakeside:

• Websites specific to Utah
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //archives.utah.gov/

• Pages specific to Box Elder County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Tooele County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Utah
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Utah
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Utah
  • Cemeteries of Box Elder County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Utah
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Utah
  • Cemeteries of Box Elder County

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lakeside. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Box Elder County: www.boxeldercounty.org/

The official website for State of Utah: https://www.utah.gov/