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 Jennings (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 Jennings. 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.
Name Variations for Jennings ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
While the name of this community is Jennings, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Jennings may originally have been Jenning's.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 doctors 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.
Jennings is located in Oneida County.
To see how the shape of Wisconsin's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Oneida County: Forest, Langlade, Lincoln, Price & Vilas.
Below are the counties that are near Jennings. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Jennings:
- Oneida County (The home county of Jennings)
- The following are listed by their distance from Jennings, with the one closest to Jennings listed first.
- Monico
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monico
- Monico is located in Oneida County
- Gagen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north) - Rhinelander
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhinelander
- Rhinelander is located in Oneida County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,637 people
- Sugar Camp
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Camp
- Sugar Camp is located in Oneida County
- Newbold
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest) - Harshaw
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harshaw
- Harshaw is located in Oneida County
- Forest County
- The following are listed by their distance from Jennings, with the one closest to Jennings listed first.
- Mole Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mole Lake
- Mole Lake is located in Forest County
- Crandon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
- Crandon is located in Forest County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,780 people
- Atkins
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north) - Hiles
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Laona
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laona
- Laona is located in Forest County
- Padus
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Padus
- Padus is located in Forest County
- Langlade County
- The following are listed by their distance from Jennings, with the one closest to Jennings listed first.
- Post Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Lake
- Post Lake is located in Langlade County
- Elcho
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elcho
- Elcho is located in Langlade County
- Kempster
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Freeman
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast) - Deerbrook
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerbrook
- Deerbrook is located in Langlade County
- Bryant
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Antigo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antigo
- Antigo is located in Langlade County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,719 people
- White Lake
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Lake
- White Lake is located in Langlade County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 353 people
- Lincoln County
- The following are listed by their distance from Jennings, with the one closest to Jennings listed first.
- Harrison
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Harrison is located in Lincoln County
- Dudley
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
- Dudley is located in Lincoln County
- Gleason
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gleason
- Gleason is located in Lincoln County
- Dutch Corners ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Corners
- Dutch Corners is located in Lincoln County
- Oconto County
- Townsend
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Townsend
- Townsend is located in Oconto County
- Townsend
- Vilas County
- Eagle River
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle River
- Eagle River is located in Vilas County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,582 people
- Eagle River
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Jennings, see our County-by-County Page for Jennings.
Newspapers Published in Jennings ...
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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jennings.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jennings, 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 Jennings.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Jennings:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //www.wisconsinhistory.org/
- Pages specific to Oneida County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Forest County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Langlade County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Lincoln County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Oconto County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Vilas County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Forest County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cemeteries of Oneida County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
Cemeteries Near Jennings ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jennings.
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 Jennings covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Jennings, with the one closest to Jennings listed first.
- St. Marys Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
- Wolfgram Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wolfgram Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wolfgram Cemetery
- Forest Home Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Forest Home Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest Home Cemetery
- Nashville Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nashville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nashville Cemetery
- Elcho Community Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elcho Community Cemetery
- Crandon Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crandon Cemetery
- Enterprise Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Enterprise Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Enterprise Cemetery
- Pearson Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pearson Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #88685 <5>
- Crandon Lakeside Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)- The Crandon Lakeside Cemetery has also been known as:
- Lakeside Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crandon Lakeside Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #88296 <5>
- Lakeside Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lakeside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeside Cemetery
- St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
- St. Marys Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
- Continue List (41 more) ...
- Argonne Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Argonne Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Argonne Cemetery
- Hiles Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hiles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hiles Cemetery
- Northland Memorial Park
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Northland Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Northland Memorial Park
- Argonne Cemetery
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.<6>
While we didn't find Jennings in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Jennings.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Jennings, with the one closest to Jennings listed first.
- Post Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Lake
- Post Lake is located in Langlade County
- Pelican Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pelican Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelican Lake
- Pelican Lake is located in Oneida County
- Elcho
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elcho
- Elcho is located in Langlade County
- Crandon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
- Crandon is located in Forest County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,780 people
- Summit Lake
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Summit Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Lake
- Summit Lake is located in Langlade County
- Atkins
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north) - Koepenick
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south) - Malvern
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest) - Kempster
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south) - Lily
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast) - Jeffris
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Rhinelander
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhinelander
- Rhinelander is located in Oneida County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,637 people
- Continue List (11 more) ...
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Jennings. See our List of 1890's Communities around Jennings.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Jennings. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Oneida County: www.co.oneida.wi.gov/
The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jennings) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jennings. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.5078, Longitude: -89.0719 |
| <5> | 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. |
| <6> | 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 Jennings, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |