Gooding, Gooding County, Idaho Genealogy

Former name

 * Toponis

City Hall
http://www.goodingidaho.org/ Gooding City Hall 308 5th Ave W Gooding, Idaho 83330 (208) 934-5669

Current
First Baptist Church 504 Washington Street Gooding, ID 83330-1348 (208) 934-8881

Current
There are four wards (congregations) in Gooding.

Historical
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History Libraryin 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 in Salt Lake City or at its FamilySearch Centers.

Current
Trinity Episcopal Church 125 7th Avenue West Gooding, ID 83330-1227 (208) 934-4749

Historic
The in Salt Lake City has microfilmed records of the Trinity Episcopal Church of Pocatello Idaho which includes members from Gooding. This film can be viewed at the Library in Salt Lake or in any of it's FamilySearch Centers.

Methodist
Gooding United Methodist Church* 805 Main Street Gooding, ID 83330-1622 Phone: (208) 934-4633

Current
St Elizabeths Catholic Church 1515 California Street Gooding, ID 83330-1884 (208) 934-5634

Historic
The in Salt Lake City has microfilmed records of the St Elizabeths Catholic Church (1949-1956) found in the Roman Catholic Diocese Archives in Boise. This film is available at the Library in Salt Lake City or in any of its FamilySearch Centers.

Directories
The Idaho State Historical Society in Boise has a collection of city, county, regional and state directories.

Funeral Homes
Demaray's Shoshone Funeral 737 Main St, Gooding, Idaho 83330 (208) 934-4406 http://www.demarayfuneralservice.com/ Demaray's Shoshone Funeral Chapel 404 W B St Shoshone, Idaho 83352 208) 886-2345 (208) 934-4406

History
Gooding is a station on the Oregon Short Line Railroad, 65 miles southwest of Carey. Settlers came in 1917 to build homes and farm the land. The total population of the Gooding Precinct was 1,556 in 1930.

Additional history of Gooding, Idaho and the early Latter-day Saint settlers there can be found in: Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 290.

Historical
Copies of issues of the following newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Historical Society in Boise:

Enterprise of Southern Idaho -- 1977:5:26-1983:11:3 Gooding County leader -- 1969:4:3-1995:12:27  Gooding independent -- 1936:1:23-1939:12:28  Gooding leader, 1921 -- 1921:1:20-1927:6:30  Gooding leader, 1933 -- 1933:1:5-1975:1:30  Idaho leader -- 1908:12:23-1921:1:13  Idaho leader -- 1909:6:11, 11:12

School Records

 * Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind