Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Trinity. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Trinity to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Trinity, please Contact Us.

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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 Trinity (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 Trinity. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Trinity is historic, it would have been located within present day Chelan County.

To see how the shape of Washington's counties 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 Trinity. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Trinity:

• Chelan County     (The home county of Trinity)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Trinity, with the one closest to Trinity listed first.
  • Holden
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holden
    • Holden is located in Chelan County
  • Stehekin
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stehekin
    • Stehekin is located in Chelan County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stehekin <2>
  • Coles Corner
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coles Corner
    • Coles Corner is located in Chelan County
  • Plain
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
    • Plain is located in Chelan County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plain <2>
• Snohomish County
  • Monte Cristo ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monte Cristo
    • Monte Cristo is located in Snohomish County

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

Newspapers Published in Trinity ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Trinity.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Trinity, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Trinity.

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 Trinity:

• Websites specific to Washington
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Washington State Archives

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

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

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

Cemeteries Near Trinity ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Trinity.

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.

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

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

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

• Hillcrest Haven of Rest Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • The Hillcrest Haven of Rest Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Burgess Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillcrest Haven of Rest Cemetery
• Suiattle Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Suiattle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Suiattle Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Chelan County: www.co.chelan.wa.us/

The official website for State of Washington: https://access.wa.gov/