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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 New Holland (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 New Holland. 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 doctors 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.

New Holland is located in Hall County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hall County: Banks, Barrow, Dawson, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Habersham, Jackson, Lumpkin & White.

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

  • Hall County     (The home county of New Holland)
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Holland, with the one closest to New Holland listed first.
    • Rainbow Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Rainbow Village is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainbow Village
    • Gainesville
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Gower Springs ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Gainesville Mills
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Gainesville Mills is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gainesville Mills
      • Estimated population in 2019: 43,232 people
    • White Sulphur Springs
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Westside
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Westside is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westside
    • White Sands
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • White Sands is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Sands
      • Estimated population in 2019: 611 people
    • The Bluffs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • The Bluffs is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Bluffs
      • Estimated population in 2019: 92 people
    • Hargrove
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Hargrove is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargrove
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,371 people
    • Surf Side Club Estates
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Surf Side Club Estates is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Surf Side Club Estates
      • Estimated population in 2019: 202 people
    • Blackshear Place
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Blackshear Place is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackshear Place
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,527 people
    • Absalom ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Banks County
  • Barrow County
  • Cherokee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Holland, with the one closest to New Holland listed first.
    • Ophir
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Free Home
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Orange
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Orange is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange
  • Clarke County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Holland, with the one closest to New Holland listed first.
    • Cleveland Station
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cleveland Station is located in Clarke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland Station
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,165 people
    • Jefferson Valley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jefferson Valley is located in Clarke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Valley
      • Estimated population in 2019: 939 people
  • Dawson County
  • Forsyth County
  • Franklin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Holland, with the one closest to New Holland listed first.
    • Plainview
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Cromers
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Cromers is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cromers
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 639 people
  • Fulton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Holland, with the one closest to New Holland listed first.
    • Ocee
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Johns Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Preston Ridge
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Preston Ridge is located in Fulton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preston Ridge
  • Gwinnett County
  • Habersham County
  • Jackson County
  • Lumpkin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Holland, with the one closest to New Holland listed first.
    • New Bridge ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • New Bridge is located in Lumpkin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Bridge
    • Grace ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Grace is located in Lumpkin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grace
    • Garland
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Auraria ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Dahlonega
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Willow ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Willow is located in Lumpkin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 15,138 people
  • Madison County
  • Oconee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Holland, with the one closest to New Holland listed first.
    • Bogart
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Osceola Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Osceola Village is located in Oconee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola Village
  • Pickens County
  • Union County
  • Walton County
  • White County

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

Cemeteries Near New Holland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of New Holland.

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 New Holland - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<4>

While we didn't find New Holland in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of New Holland.

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

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

Newspapers Published in New Holland ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around New Holland.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of New Holland, there are papers which were published within 4 miles [6.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for New Holland.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 New Holland:

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>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>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 from Point A (ie- New Holland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 New Holland, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.