Gem County, Idaho Genealogy

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County Courthouse
Gem County

Parent County
1915--Gem County, Idaho was created 15 March 1915 from Boise and Canyon Counties. County seat: Emmett

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 Gem County, Idaho was compiled from the Lists of Places in Idaho in Wikipedia and from the map of Gem County in Virtual Earth.

Cities
Emmett

Other inhabited places
Black Canyon | Bramwell | Del Monte | Gross | Jenness | Letha | Little Rock | Montour | Northside | Ola | Pearl | Plaza | Sweet

Neighboring Counties
Ada | Adams | Boise | Canyon | Payette | Valley | Washington

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Gem 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 Emmett.

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


 * Bertie Watson burial - Clyde Yergeson farm, 1.5 m S of Sweet
 * Bramwell Cemetery - 1 m W of Little Freezeout Rd near Letha
 * Floyd Reed grave - Reed Ranch, Sweet
 * Lee & Virginia Garfield graves - Garfield Ranch overlooking Payette River
 * Ola Cemetery - Ola
 * Pearl Cemetery - Pearl
 * Riverside Cemetery (Emmett Cemetery - formerly Martinville Cem.) - Emmett - Cemetery moved to present location in 1903
 * Sweet Cemetery - 2 m S of Sweet on Hwy 52, foot of Squaw Butte

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 Gem 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.


 * Emmett
 * Emmett 1
 * Emmett 2

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Gem 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.

Current

 * Messenger- Index

Societies and Libraries
Gem County Historical Society and Museum

Web Sites

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