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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 Emmerich (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 Emmerich. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Emmerich is located in Marathon County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Marathon County: Clark, Langlade, Lincoln, Portage, Shawano, Taylor, Waupaca & Wood.

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

  • Marathon County     (The home county of Emmerich)
  • Clark County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Emmerich, with the one closest to Emmerich listed first.
    • Abbotsford
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Dorchester
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Dorchester is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people
    • Colby
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Colby is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,941 people
    • Curtiss
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Emmerich, with the one closest to Emmerich listed first.
    • Merrill
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Merrill is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,990 people
    • Dutch Corners ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Irma
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Gleason
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Dudley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Tomahawk
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Jersey City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Jersey City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City
    • Harrison
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Shawano County
    • Aniwa
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Aniwa is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aniwa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Emmerich, with the one closest to Emmerich listed first.
    • Interwald
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Stetsonville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Stetsonville is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stetsonville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
    • Rib Lake
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Medford
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Chelsea
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Westboro
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Emmerich ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Emmerich.

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

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

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

  • Fromm Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Methodist Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Hamburg Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Dreieinigkeit Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Big Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Zion Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Rib View Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Town Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Snow Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Lueck Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (86 more) ...
    • Emanuel Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Maple Grove Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Zion Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)

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.<1>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Emmerich had a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Emmerich ...

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 72 newspapers that have been published in the area around Emmerich.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Emmerich, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Emmerich.

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 Emmerich:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Emmerich, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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- Emmerich) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.