Gooding County, Idaho Genealogy

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Parent County
1913--Gooding County, Idaho was created 28 January 1913 from Lincoln County. County seat: Gooding

Boundary Changes
8 February 1919 -- Jerome County created from parts of Gooding and Lincoiln Counties

Places/Localities
The following list of places includes incorporated cities and towns, unincorporated towns and communities, and place names that may have been used in family histories. Some have well-organized records and even have web sites. Some are simply social communities with no official records, but which may be referenced in small-town newspapers. The list is provided to help researchers identify localities within the county. As records or histories of these localities are identified, a page will be added for each of these place names.

This list of places in Gooding County, Idaho was compiled from the Lists of Places in Idaho in Wikipedia and from the map of Gooding County in Virtual Earth.

Cities
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Other inhabited places
Appleton | Fuller | King | Ticeska | Tuttle

Neighboring Counties
Camas | Elmore | Jerome | Lincoln | Twin Falls

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Gooding County have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and through their family history centers. They are also available at the Idaho State Historical Society's Library in Boise. Details of the county records in these respective institutions can be obtained from their online catalogs or listings. Original records which have been microfilmed and more recent records are in the county courthouse in Gooding.

Cemeteries
The following cemeteries of Gooding County have some records in the Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives and Research Library:


 * Bliss family Cemetery - 1 m S of Bliss on Bliss/Hagerman road
 * Elmwood Cemetery - Gooding (contact: Bev, 934-8438)
 * Hagerman Cemetery - Hagerman
 * Lower Clover Creek Cemetery - Exit 137 I-80, 4 m W and then 4.5 m N
 * Lower Salmon Falls Cemetery - 1 m W of Hagerman
 * Pioneer Cemetery - Gooding
 * Salmon Tract Cemetery - N end of Hagerman Valley, 1 m W of Hwy
 * Upper Clover Creek Cemetery
 * Wendell Cemetery - Wendell

The following cemeteries of Caribou County have been identified and some of their records located. When multiple transcriptions are listed, they may contain discrepant information. The transcriptions may have been made at different times and by different people. Some names may have been mis-read. Some gravestones may have been missed. All transcriptions available for each cemetery should be checked.

Census
For a summary of census records for the state of Idaho, see Idaho Census Records.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
The following are local congregations (wards) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which existed in Gooding County, Idaho prior to 1950. Many of the original records of these church units are in the Historical Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.


 * Gooding
 * Hagerman
 * Wendell

Maps

 * A digital Gooding County Idaho map is available online.
 * Map of Gooding County, Idaho is available online.

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Gooding County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452215) and are also available online at Ancestry.com, for a subscription fee. The original cards are maintained in the Southeast Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in East Point, Georgia and have been microfilmed by the National Archives as their Microcopy M1509.

Societies and Libraries
Gooding County Historical Society

Web Sites

 * The Gooding County Idaho GenWeb Project, a member of The IDGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * Family History Library Catalog