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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Houston (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Houston. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Newspapers Published in Houston ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Houston.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Houston, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Houston.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Houston:

Cemeteries Near Houston ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Houston.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Houston covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Houston, with the one closest to Houston listed first.

  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Wasilla Aurora Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Kashwitna Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Nicholas Orthodox Church Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • St. John Cathedral Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Palmer Pioneer Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palmer Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Palmer Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Palmer.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palmer Pioneer Cemetery
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Palmer.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
  • Ft. Richardson National Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Valley Memorial Park
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • The Valley Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Butte Cemetery
    • Valley Memory Garden
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valley Memorial Park
  • Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Anchorage.
    • The Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Anchorage Municipal Cemetery
    • Memorial Park Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #191762 <2>
  • Memorial To The Missing
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Houston. See our List of 1890's Communities around Houston.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Houston. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Alaska: alaska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Houston) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Houston. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 61.6301, Longitude: -149.8138    
<2>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.









 

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