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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 Lim Rock (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 Lim Rock. 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.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Lim Rock is located in Jackson County.

To see how the shape of Alabama's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jackson County: DeKalb, Madison, Marshall, Dade (GA), Franklin (TN) & Marion (TN).

Below are the counties that are near Lim Rock. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lim Rock:

  • Jackson County     (The home county of Lim Rock)
  • DeKalb County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lim Rock, with the one closest to Lim Rock listed first.
    • Grove Oak
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Gibson Crossroads
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hix ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Hix is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hix
    • Powell
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Chigger Hill
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Luttrell
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Whiton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Fyffe
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Lakeview
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Shiloh
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Shiloh is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
    • Sylvania
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Sylvania is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvania
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,860 people
    • Rogers
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Rainsville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Madison County
  • Marshall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lim Rock, with the one closest to Lim Rock listed first.
    • Grant
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Columbus City Ferry
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Columbus City Ferry is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus City Ferry
    • Columbus City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Columbus City is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus City
    • Mid ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Mid is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mid
    • North ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • North is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North
    • Fort Deposit ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Fort Deposit is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Deposit
    • Ferns Quarter ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Ferns Quarter is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferns Quarter
    • Peters ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Peters is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peters
    • Rayburn
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Guntersville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Wyeth City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Wyeth City is located in Marshall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyeth City
    • Union Grove
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Warrenton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Morgan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lim Rock, with the one closest to Lim Rock listed first.
    • Morgan City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Morgan City is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan City
    • Lacey's Spring
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Briscoe
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Apple Grove
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Valhermoso Springs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Franklin County (TN)
  • Lincoln County (TN)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lim Rock, see our County-by-County Page for Lim Rock.

Cemeteries Near Lim Rock ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lim Rock.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Lim Rock - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Berry Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Isbell Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Dotson Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Gentle Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Erwin Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Blue Spring Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Harrison Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Peters Cove Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Hall Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Zions Rest Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Pinhook Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (763 more) ...
    • Ross Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Union Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Stephens Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Lim Rock had a post office and railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Lim Rock, with the one closest to Lim Rock listed first.

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

Newspapers Published in Lim Rock ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lim Rock.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lim Rock, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lim Rock.

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 Lim Rock:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Lim Rock, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lim Rock) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.