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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 Price (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 Price. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

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

  • Hall County     (The home county of Price)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Price, with the one closest to Price listed first.
    • Murrayville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Sardis Shores
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Sardis Shores is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sardis Shores
      • Estimated population in 2019: 960 people
    • Whelchel
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Whelchel is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whelchel
    • The Bluffs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • The Bluffs is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Bluffs
      • Estimated population in 2019: 92 people
    • Summer Point
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Summer Point is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summer Point
      • Estimated population in 2019: 158 people
    • White Sands
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • White Sands is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Sands
      • Estimated population in 2019: 611 people
    • Hargrove
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Hargrove is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hargrove
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,371 people
    • Land ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Absalom ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Gower Springs ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Gainesville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • New Holland
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Westside
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Westside is located in Hall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westside
  • Banks County
  • Barrow County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Price, with the one closest to Price listed first.
    • Auburn
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Carl
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Carl is located in Barrow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carl
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people
    • Winder
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Russell
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Russell is located in Barrow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
  • Cherokee County
  • Dawson County
  • Fannin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Price, with the one closest to Price listed first.
    • Margret
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Newport
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Forsyth County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Price, with the one closest to Price listed first.
    • Chestatee
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Silver City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Silver City is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Cumming
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Fulton County
  • Gilmer County
  • Gwinnett County
  • Habersham County
  • Jackson County
  • Lumpkin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Price, with the one closest to Price listed first.
    • New Bridge ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • New Bridge is located in Lumpkin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Bridge
    • Garland
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Auraria ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Dahlonega
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Grace ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Grace is located in Lumpkin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grace
    • Willow ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 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
  • Pickens County
  • Union County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Price, with the one closest to Price listed first.
    • Suches
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Choestoe
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Owltown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Hood ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Hood is located in Union County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hood
  • White County

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

Cemeteries Near Price ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Price.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Price, with the one closest to Price 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Price had a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Price ...

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 Price.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Price, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Price.

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 Price:

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