Wendell, Gooding County, Idaho Genealogy

Guide to Wendell, Gooding ancestry, genealogy and family history, birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

City Hall
Wendell City Clerks P.O. Box 208/157 W. Main Street Wendell, Idaho 83355 (208) 536-5161

Current
There are three congregations in Wendell.

Historic
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History 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 in Salt Lake City or at its Family History Centers.



Current
Christ Lutheran Church 175 2nd Avenue West, Wendell, ID 83355 (208) 536-2588

Current
Methodist Church 175 East Main Street, Wendell, ID 83355 (208) 536-2305

Current
Living Waters Presbyterian Church 821 East Main PO Box 218 - Wendell, ID 83355 208-536-6270

Current
St Anthony Catholic Church 585 2nd Avenue East, Wendell, ID 83355 (208) 536-2345

Historic
The FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City has microfilmed records (1925-1964) found in the Roman Catholic Diocese Archives in Boise. These films are available at the Library in Salt Lake or in any of its Family History Centers.

Other
Wendell Church of Christ 811 East Main Street Wendell, ID. 83355 (208) 536-6296

New Life Community Church 800 West Main Wendell, Idaho 83355 208-536-6223 nlccwendell@gmail.com

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

Funeral Homes
Demaray's Shoshone Funeral 737 Main St Gooding, Idaho 83330 (208) 934-4406 http://www.demarayfuneralservice.com/ Hove-Robertson Funeral Chapel 629 3rd Ave E Jerome, Idaho 83338 (208) 324-4555 http://www.hove-robertsonfuneralchapel.com/ Farnsworth Mortuary 1343 S Lincoln Ave Jerome, Idaho 83338 (208) 324-7777

History
Wendell is a station on the Rupert-Bliss cutoff (a branch of the Oregon Short line Railroad). Wendell is surrounded by a rich farming district; it is 15 miles northwest of Jerome, and about15 miles south of Gooding. In 1918 a few families resided in Wendell.

Additional history of Wendell, 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. 937.

Historical
Copies of issues of the following Wendell newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Archivesin Boise, Idaho:

Hub City irrigationist 1909:4:15-1912:6:14  Hub City voice  1974:12:18-1975:8:28  Wendell irrigationist  1912:8:9-1970:6:25