Links
Gem County Veterans Project
Gem County Veterans Project or Janie Schaut
Gem County Sites
Gem County Museum on facebook
Gem County Official Web Site
Gem County Chamber of Commerce
Ola Community Newsletter
Sweet Community site
Gem County at city-data.com
The Legend of Squaw Butte, a podcast
Messenger-Index newspaper
History - General Interest
Idaho State Historical Society Reference Series Index for Idaho history articles
History Articles at the Idaho Statesman
FARRIT: Finding All Resources Relating to Idaho Topics, Idaho Commission for Libraries.
Council Valley Museum including newspaper abstracts from 1877 to 1950
ITD Historic Markers
Historical Currency Converter
Library of Congress Index page
Historic Glass Bottle Indentification & Information (Thanks Nick! Looks fun!)
Photography History
A researcher sent me this link along with scans of Ambrotype photos on glass. (The scans look kind of like tintypes, but more crinkly.) An Ambrotype uses a glass plate negative and egg whites, then put a black cloth behind it & the pic pops out. She was able to "date" the photo by the history on this site. She said the amybrotype looked like dirty glass until she held it up to the light. - smc
History of the Payette River 
Civilian Conservation Corps
There were five camps in Gem County
CCC crew working at Black Canyon Dam
Idaho PTV transcript
CCC Legacy
Oregon Trail
The Goodale North Oregon Trail variant passed through Gem County -
"Goodale North" Oregon Trail Variant
ISU Trail Archives (includes journals)
OT at National Park Service
Oregon-California Trail Assoc.
Covered Wagon History
Railroad
Trappers
Fur trappers passed through here as early as 1818 and Ross explored Squaw Creek in 1824 -
Alexander Ross' Journal, 1824
John Work's Journal, 1830-31
Maps, Geography and Geology
1895 Idaho Map
1897 Map showing old Boise/Canyon county line and Westview Mining District (Pearl). The map was filed in Canyon County Oct. 27, 1897 and certified Nov. 11, 1915 when we became Gem County. (Thanks to "Mapper" John Henderson for verifying the dates!)
1900 Revised Plat of Emmettsville
Letha plat 1910
Sweet original plat
Gem County Maps (present-day)
Idaho State University Digital Atlas
Idaho Geological Survey
USGS index of Geographic Names
Mindat
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, general interest and historic maps
Neighbors and Places to Visit
Genealogy in Gem County
Gem County, IDGenWeb genealogy resources including cemetery inventories for Sweet, Ola and Pearl.
1870 Ada Co. census Gem Co. was formed March 1915 from parts of Boise Co. & Canyon Co. The southern portion that had been part of Canyon Co. was part of Ada County in 1870.
1870 & 1880 non-population census at state archives
1880 & 1900 census at ISU
1930 Gross & Pearl precincts
Government Land Office records: Patents (homesteads, cash sale and livestock) & maps -
Homestead Records | new GLO site
SS Death Index
BYUI Western States Marriage Index
GenWeb Archives for Gem County
Idaho Vital Records Guide | Gem County Public Records/Vitals
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