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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 Queensland (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 Queensland. 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 and doctors 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.

Queensland is located in Ben Hill 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 Ben Hill County: Coffee, Irwin, Telfair, Turner & Wilcox.

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

  • Ben Hill County     (The home county of Queensland)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Fitzgerald
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Abba
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Abba is located in Ben Hill County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abba
  • Berrien County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Enigma
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Alapaha
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Coffee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Ambrose
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Broxton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Douglas
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Crisp County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • McKenzie
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • McKenzie is located in Crisp County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKenzie
    • Arabi
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Dodge County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Rhine
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Chauncey
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Eastman
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Irwin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Arp
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Arp is located in Irwin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arp
    • Ocilla
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Irwinville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Mystic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Wray
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Jeff Davis County
    • Kirkland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Kirkland is located in Jeff Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkland
  • Pulaski County
    • Finleyson
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Finleyson is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finleyson
  • Telfair County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Jacksonville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Milan
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Helena
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • McRae - Helena
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • McRae
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • McRae is located in Telfair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McRae
    • Scotland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Tift County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Chula
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Brookfield
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Abac
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Tifton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Phillipsburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Phillipsburg is located in Tift County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillipsburg
    • Unionville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Unionville is located in Tift County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
  • Turner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Rebecca
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Ashburn
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Sycamore
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Wilcox County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Queensland, with the one closest to Queensland listed first.
    • Owensboro
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Owensboro is located in Wilcox County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owensboro
    • Abbeville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Rochelle
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Pitts
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Seville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Pineview
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Queensland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Queensland.

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

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

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

  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Dixon Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Rinor Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Kiokee Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Penn Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Dorminy Mill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Tanner Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Mims Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Tomberlin Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Arbor Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbor Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Arbor Church Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Fitzgerald.
    • The Arbor Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Arbor Baptist Church Cemetery
    • Arbor Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #32582 <2>
  • Continue List   (293 more) ...
    • Westwood Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Wilcox - Reid Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Reid Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)

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>

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

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

  • Sibbie
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Sibbie is located in Wilcox County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sibbie
  • Abba
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Abba is located in Ben Hill County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abba
  • Temperance
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Temperance is located in Telfair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temperance
  • China Hill
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • China Hill is located in Telfair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Hill
  • Copeland
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Copeland is located in Dodge County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copeland
  • Irwinville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Abbeville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Rhine
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Jacksonville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Rochelle
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Cobbville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Cobbville is located in Telfair County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobbville
  • Milan
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Pitts
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Lax
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Lax is located in Coffee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lax
    • Broxton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Queensland ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Queensland.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Queensland, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Queensland.

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 Queensland:

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 Queensland, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Queensland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.