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 Rogers Park (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 Rogers Park. 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.
Name Variations for Rogers Park ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
While the name of this community is Rogers Park, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Rogers Park may originally have been Roger's Park.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Rogers Park might be written as Roger Park.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Rogers Park. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Rogers Park.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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.
Rogers Park is located in Cook County.
To see how the shape of Illinois' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cook County: DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will, Lake (IN) & Berrien (MI).
Below are the counties that are near Rogers Park. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rogers Park:
- Cook County (The home county of Rogers Park)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers Park, with the one closest to Rogers Park listed first.
- Birchwood
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Birchwood is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
- Evanston
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- South Evanston
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- South Evanston is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Evanston
- Bowmanville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bowmanville is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmanville
- Buena Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Buena Park is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Park
- Lincolnwood
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Skokie
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Albany Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Albany Park is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany Park
- Kenilworth
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Wilmette
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Maplewood
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Maplewood is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maplewood
- Grayland
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Grayland is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayland
- Jefferson Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Jefferson Park is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Park
- DuPage County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers Park, with the one closest to Rogers Park listed first.
- Bensenville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Elmhurst
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- South Elmhurst
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- South Elmhurst is located in DuPage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Elmhurst
- Wood Dale
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Oak Brook Terrace
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Oak Brook Terrace is located in DuPage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Brook Terrace
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,094 people
- Oak Brook
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Villa Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Villa Park is located in DuPage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villa Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 21,291 people
- Addison
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Itasca
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Hinsdale
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Utopia
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Utopia is located in DuPage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
- York Center
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- York Center is located in DuPage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York Center
- Medinah
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Kane County
- East Dundee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Lake County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers Park, with the one closest to Rogers Park listed first.
- Braeside
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Braeside is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braeside
- Ravinia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Ravinia is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravinia
- Highland Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Deerfield
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Highwood
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Bannockburn
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Riverwoods
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Buffalo Grove
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Aptakisic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Aptakisic is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aptakisic
- Lincolnshire
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Lake Forest
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Prairie View
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Prairie View is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie View
- Lake Bluff
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- McHenry County
- Fox River Grove
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Will County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers Park, with the one closest to Rogers Park listed first.
- Winston Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Winston Village is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston Village
- Bolingbrook
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Colonial Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Colonial Village is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
- Goodings Grove
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Goodings Grove is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodings Grove
- Bloomfield Village
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Bloomfield Village is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Village
- Lake County (IN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rogers Park, with the one closest to Rogers Park listed first.
- Whiting
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- East Chicago
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Hammond
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Hessville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Hessville is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hessville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Rogers Park, see our County-by-County Page for Rogers Park.
Cemeteries Near Rogers Park ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rogers Park.
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 Rogers Park - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rogers Park covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rogers Park, with the one closest to Rogers Park listed first.
- St. Henry Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Calvary Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Calvary Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Chicago.
- The Calvary Cemetery has also been known as:
- Calvary Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #105009 <3>
- Rosehill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Rosehill Mausoleum
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- St. Boniface Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Ridge Lawn Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Montrose Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- St. Luke Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Luke Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Luke Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Albany Park.
- The St. Luke Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Lucas Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #107959 <3>
- Bohemian National Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bohemian National Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bohemian National Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Albany Park.
- The Bohemian National Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bohemian National Cemetery of Chicago
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #216236 <3>
- Getty Tomb
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Hebrew Benevolent Society Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Graceland Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Continue List (253 more) ...
- Wunder's Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wunder's Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Wunder's Cemetery is located in Buena Park.
- The Wunder's Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wunders Lutheran Cemetery
- New Light Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- St. Peter Catholic Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 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.<4>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Rogers Park had a population of 2,889 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Rogers Park, with the one closest to Rogers Park listed first.
- Birchwood
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Birchwood is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
- Edgewater
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Edgewater is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater
- Bowmanville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bowmanville is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmanville
- Summerdale
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Summerdale is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerdale
- Ravenswood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Ravenswood is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenswood
- Evanston
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- South Evanston
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- South Evanston is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Evanston
- Cuyler
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Cuyler is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuyler
- Buena Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Buena Park is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Park
- Mayfair
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Mayfair is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayfair
- North Evanston
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- North Evanston is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Evanston
- Jefferson Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Jefferson Park is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Park
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Grayland
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Grayland is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayland
- Irving Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Irving Park is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irving Park
- Avondale
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Avondale is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avondale
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rogers Park. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rogers Park.
Newspapers Published in Rogers Park ...
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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rogers Park.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rogers Park, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rogers Park.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Rogers Park:
- Websites specific to Illinois
- Pages specific to Cook County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- DuPage County
- Kane County
- Lake County
- McHenry County
- Will County
- Lake County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Illinois
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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 Rogers Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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- Rogers Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |