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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 Sunnyslope (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 Sunnyslope. 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.

Sunnyslope is primarily located in Chelan County. A portion of Sunnyslope extends into Kitsap County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Chelan County: Douglas, King, Kittitas, Okanogan, Skagit & Snohomish.

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

  • Chelan County     (The home county of Sunnyslope)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunnyslope, with the one closest to Sunnyslope listed first.
    • West Wenatchee
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • West Wenatchee is located in Chelan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Wenatchee
    • Wenatchee
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Monitor
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Appleyard
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Appleyard is located in Chelan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appleyard
    • Cashmere
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Malaga
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Dryden
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Entiat
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Peshastin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Leavenworth
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Ardenvoir
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Plain
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunnyslope, with the one closest to Sunnyslope listed first.
    • East Wenatchee Bench
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • East Wenatchee Bench is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Wenatchee Bench
    • East Wenatchee
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Orondo
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Rock Island
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Waterville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Okanogan City ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Okanogan City is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okanogan City
    • Palisades
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Palisades is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisades
    • Withrow
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Withrow is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Withrow
    • Beebe
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Beebe is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
  • Grant County
    • Quincy
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Kittitas County
    • Liberty
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Liberty is located in Kittitas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
      • Former names for Liberty:
      • Meaghersville
      • Williams Creek

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

Cemeteries Near Sunnyslope ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sunnyslope.

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

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

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

  • Sunnyslope Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Wenatchee City Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wenatchee City Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Wenatchee City Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Wenatchee.
    • The Wenatchee City Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Wenatchee Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1053458 <2>
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Evergreen Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • South Side Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Cashmere Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Stemilt Hill Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Orondo Community Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Entiat Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Peshastin Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Badger Mtn. Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Mountain View Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Waterville Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterville Cemetery
      • The Waterville Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Fraternity Cemetery
    • Leavenworth Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 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.<3>

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

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

  • Wenatchee
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Orondo
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Peshastin
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Waterville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Douglas
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Douglas is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas

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

Newspapers Published in Sunnyslope ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sunnyslope.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sunnyslope, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sunnyslope.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Sunnyslope:

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