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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 Ramer (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 Ramer. 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 northwest 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 north.

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 north 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.

Ramer 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 Ramer. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Ramer:

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

Cemeteries Near Ramer ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ramer.

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 Ramer - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Sentell Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Chesser Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Fair Prospect Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Fannin Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Bell Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Jackson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Philadelphia Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Garner Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Hills Chapel Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Orme Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Underwood Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Urquhart Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
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    • Sprague Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Kennedy Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Rocky Mount Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 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 Ramer had a population of 142 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Strata
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Strata is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strata
  • Naftel
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Naftel is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naftel
  • Grady
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Meadville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Meadville is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville
  • Ada
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Sellers
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Sellers is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sellers
  • Lapine
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Lapine is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapine
  • Highland Home
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Le Grand
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Le Grand is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Le Grand
  • Center Point
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Fleta
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Fleta is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleta
  • Mount Carmel
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Mount Carmel is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Carmel
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    • Pine Level
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Bradleyton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Bradleyton is located in Crenshaw County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradleyton
    • Shady Grove
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Shady Grove is located in Pike County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove

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

Newspapers Published in Ramer ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ramer.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ramer, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ramer.

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 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 Ramer:

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 Ramer, 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 from Point A (ie- Ramer) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.