History and Genealogy
for
Bear Lake County, Idaho
Volunteers
Dedicated to Free Genealogy
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This
website is part of the Genealogy Trails family and our goal is to help
you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and
historical data and placing it online for the free use of all
researchers.
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to make this site the best that it can be!
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you
may be interested in volunteering to host this site, or any of the
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Feel free to email us with any and all
contributions that you may have - every little bit helps someone!
I regret that I am unable to do personal
research.
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Bear Lake county was established January 5, 1875 with
its county seat at Paris and was named for Bear Lake, which lies half
in Idaho and half in Utah. In 1863 the first permanent settlement was
at Paris, established by forty Mormon families who came in wagons, in
ox carts and on foot over very difficult terrain from Cache Valley,
Utah.
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Bear Lake County
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Surrounding
Counties
Caribou County
Franklin County
Lincoln County, WY
Rich County, UT
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Bear Lake County Courthouse
Built in 1885
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Online Data
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Submit Cemetery Information
A
wonderful source of genealogical information that is very useful are
cemetery headstones. They provide key data such as dates of birth,
marriage information and dates of death. To submit headstone
information please click
here.
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Submit Obituary Information
Obituaries
are one of the most important tools used by researchers in tracing
their family roots. Please consider contributing any obituary
information that you may have by submitting them here
and filling out the transmittal form.
Please include your
email address should we have any questions.
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As
your Idaho State Coordinator, I try to post as much source data online
as possible in order to make it freely available to all researchers. We
gratefully accept contributions of raw data such as
marriage/birth/death records, obituaries, county histories,
biographies, old newspaper items, census information, - anything that would help someone
build their family tree! Feel free to email me, Sandra Davis, with
your contributions - every little bit helps someone!
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Remember
to look around at the other
states and consider donating your source information.
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