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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 Pine Level (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 Pine Level. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Pine Level is located in Montgomery 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 Montgomery County: Autauga, Bullock, Crenshaw, Elmore, Lowndes, Macon & Pike.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Pine Level ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pine Level.

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 Pine Level - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Frazer - McLeod Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Bethesda Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Possum Trot Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Hills Chapel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Edwards Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Urquhart Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • McNeil - Townsend Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Orion Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • China Grove Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Fannin Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Pickett Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Kennedy Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
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    • Orme Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Chesser Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Sentell Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)

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 Pine Level had a population of 127 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Meadville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Meadville is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville
  • Center Point
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Orion
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • China Grove
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • China Grove is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Grove
  • Shopton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Shopton is located in Bullock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shopton
  • Curry
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Curry is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curry
  • Grady
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Hector
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Hector is located in Bullock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hector
  • Ramer
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Mount Hillard
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Mount Hillard is located in Bullock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hillard
  • Shady Grove
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Shady Grove is located in Pike County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
  • Ansley
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
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    • Ada
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Le Grand
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Le Grand is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Le Grand
    • Strata
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Strata is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strata

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

Newspapers Published in Pine Level ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pine Level.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pine Level, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pine Level.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Pine Level:

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 Pine Level, 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' (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- Pine Level) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.